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Identifying and Reducing Test Case Combinatorial Explosions with Python's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and Pytest Framework
Test matrix explosions are a growing challenge in modern software testing, especially when using parameterized tests in machine learning pipelines.
3 min |
July - August 2025

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The New Features and Enhancements in .NET 10 H
By the end of this year, Microsoft plans to release .NET 10 (in November 2025). Incidentally, it will be a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. The preview version of .NET 10 is already available.
2 min |
July - August 2025
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Unlocking Angular Performance: Optimization Techniques
Optimizing Angular applications for speed and efficiency requires a deliberate strategy.
2 min |
July - August 2025
CODE Magazine
Git Branching Strategies
Sometimes when we reach for the stars, we forget to keep our feet on the ground. Whenever I sit down to write these articles, I wonder what I should write about.
6 min |
July - August 2025
CODE Magazine
Sending Email with SendGrid
C# provides several ways to send email. Maybe you've used the SMTPClient class or perhaps you've used the Mailkit NuGet package, which is what Microsoft recommends for new code.
4 min |
July - August 2025
CODE Magazine
Natural Language Al-Powered Smart UI
Looking for real-world AI examples is a challenge and part of this challenge comes from Generative AI (GenAI) news dominating the media. It feels like every AI demo involves chatting with GenAl to produce content. The obligatory chat completion demo has started to become the to-do list of AI demo apps, and, to make matters worse, it's selling AI short.
9 min |
July - August 2025

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Three Conferences, One Destination: MAXIMIZING YOUR AI-ERA LEARNING INVESTMENT
MAXIMIZING YOUR AI-ERA LEARNING INVESTMENT
4 min |
July - August 2025
CODE Magazine
Exploring .NET MAUI: Popups, Messages, and Data Validation
Through this article series, you've created several .NET MAUI pages, performed navigation, used data binding, and worked with the MVVM and DI design patterns. As you created your view models, you've set information and exception message properties. In this article, you'll build reusable components to display information, error, and validation messages on your pages. To validate
10+ min |
May - June 2025
CODE Magazine
Unlock Serverless Azure Functions
The evolution of cloud computing has transformed how developers build and deploy applications. One of the most significant shifts in this evolution is the rise of serverless architecture. Traditionally, building and maintaining applications requires managing servers, scaling infrastructure, and handling operational concerns.
10 min |
May - June 2025
CODE Magazine
Securing ASP.NET Core Blazor Applications
Blazor is a modern web framework from Microsoft used for building interactive web applications using C# and .NET. It's based on a flexible, modular component model well suited for building applications with rich, interactive web user interfaces. Blazor leverages the authentication mechanism of ASP.NET Core to establish the identity of a user.
5 min |
May - June 2025

CODE Magazine
Get on the Bus— The Azure Service Bus
Azure Service Bus is Microsoft's cloud offering for developing message-based applications. In this article, I'll explore some fundamental Azure Service Bus techniques like how to configure queues, how to send and receive messages, and how to make sure you're properly handing exceptions and poison messages. But first, let's take a moment to think about why you'd want to build a message-based application in the first place.
7 min |
May - June 2025
CODE Magazine
Front-End Development Trends
Sometimes we hold so much in our projects that we forget to see what's going on in the rest of the world. As developers, especially as full stack developers, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to stay up to date with every detail of technology. I feel that everything is becoming a specialized skill. The breadth of knowledge you need to have to call yourself, let's say,
10+ min |
May - June 2025

CODE Magazine
Boost Your iOS App Development with ChatGPT Al-Assistance
The genie's out of the bottle and there's no turning back! If you haven't tried Al-assisted programming yet, now is a great time to dive in. Tools such as ChatGPT have come a long way from their inception. You'll be amazed at how much more productive you'll be and wonder how you ever managed without them. The genie's out of the bottle and there's no turning back!
10+ min |
March - April 2025

CODE Magazine
Building Modern Web Applications Using Blazor ASP.NET Core
Blazor is a modern web framework from Microsoft that was included in .NET 5. It's used for building interactive web applications using C# and .NET and it's based on a flexible, modular component model that's well-suited for building applications with rich, interactive web user interfaces. It should be noted that you can still use JavaScript if you'd like to, i.e., you can invoke your
10+ min |
March - April 2025

CODE Magazine
CODE Magazine Presents: The State of AI Mini Conference Tour
CODE has recently started a new series of in-person events focusing on the topic of artificial intelligence and its practical uses in business scenarios.
3 min |
March - April 2025

CODE Magazine
Career Development and Staffing reinvented
You think great talent and cool positions only exist in Silicon Valley? Think again!
4 min |
March - April 2025

CODE Magazine
Offline AI Image Generation
On January 5, 2021, OpenAl revealed DALL-E. Frankly, it blew everyone's minds. DALL-E was a modified version of GPT-3. GPT, as you might know, is a large language model (LLM), and it generates text.
10+ min |
March - April 2025

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Exploring LangChain: A Practical Approach to Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
LangChain is a powerful framework for building applications that incorporate large language models (LLMs).
3 min |
January - February 2025

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Threads, Asynchrony, Parallelism, and Concurrency in C#
The concepts of process, thread, and task are fundamental to understanding the working of an operating system. You should have a good understanding of threads and how they work to learn asynchrony, parallelism, and concurrency. This article discusses the concepts related to these concepts in detail with relevant code examples wherever appropriate.
5 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
Career Development and Staffing Reinvented
You think great talent and cool positions only exist in Silicon Valley? Think again!
4 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
Can an LLM Make a Video Game?
In the Summer of 1980, I played Asteroids at a gas station in rural West Texas. I stood on a stool to reach the controls and see the screen. Ever since then, I’ve wanted to make a video game. I’ve also wanted to have the time, skills, and resources to make a video game.
3 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
First Rule of ARIA: Don't Use ARIA
As you expand your accessibility knowledge, you've probably heard the term ARIA a few times, maybe with an explanation, maybe not. Let's start there: ARIA (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA) is a standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (https://www.w3.org/) via the Web AccessibilityInitiative (WAI) (https://www.w3.org/WAI/).
10+ min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
Exploring .NET MAUI: Data Entry Controls and Data Binding
In the first parts of this ongoing series on exploring .NET MAUI (https://codemag.com/Article/2408041/Exploring-.NET-MAUIGetting-Started and https://codemag.com/Article/2409041/Exploring-.NET-MAUI-Styles-Navigation-and-Reusable-UI), you created your first .NET MAUI application and ran that application on both a Windows computer and an Android emulator.
4 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
CODE Magazine Presents: The State of AI Mini Conference Tour
CODE has recently started a new series of inperson events focusing on the topic of artificial intelligence and its practical uses in business scenarios.
2 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
AI with No Internet Connection
AI, or artificial intelligence; are you bored of hearing about of it yet? Between the stock market and CEO keynotes, we can’t seem to get away from it. It promises to revolutionize everything around us.
8 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
CODE: 5 Years Ago
And just like that, we've arrived at the last installment of our \"30 Years of CODE\" celebratory column. Wow. Time flies! Seems like \"just the other day\" we had our 30-year anniversary celebration in Orlando, yet that was in December of 2023. But it's even wilder to think back five or six years. \"Just before the pandemic,\" really. How much has changed in those few short years!
10 min |
November - December 2024

CODE Magazine
Career Development and Staffing reinvented
You think great talent and cool positions only exist in Silicon Valley? Think again!
4 min |
September - October 2024

CODE Magazine
Container Orchestration Using Kubernetes
In my previous article on Docker (\"Introduction to Containerization Using Docker,\" Mar/Apr 2021 issue), I explained what containerization is and how Docker simplifies application deployment.
2 min |
September - October 2024

CODE Magazine
CODE Magazine Presents: The State of AI Mini Conference Tour
CODE has recently started a new series of inperson events focusing on the topic of artificial intelligence and its practical uses in business scenarios.
2 min |
September - October 2024

CODE Magazine
Job-Oriented Programming and Pointers in a Scripting Language
This article is about using job-oriented programming and pointers in a scripting language.
3 min |