Category: Development Software

June 11, 2021

Oracle has introduced an enterprise service to help manage Java runtimes and applications, either on-premises or on any cloud. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) native service, called Java Management Service (JMS), became generally available on June 9. Bearing the same […]

June 9, 2021

You might often want to validate parameters in your methods to ensure they have valid data. Most importantly, you might often want to protect your publicly exposed API methods by ensuring that the parameters in those methods have valid values. […]

June 7, 2021

As remote work became the default for many companies during the pandemic, it’s maybe no surprise that services like Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop, which gives users access to a fully managed Windows 10 desktop experience from virtually anywhere, saw a […]

June 4, 2021

Give a user software, and you feed them for a month. Teach a user to build software, and you feed them for at least two months. Even with the proliferation of low-code and no-code tools in today’s market, it looks […]

June 4, 2021

Before performing a large set of inserts into a Dictionary or HashSet, it is helpful to call EnsureCapacity with the expected collection size. This allows the collection to perform one resize operation upfront, avoiding the possibility of multiple resizes being […]

June 1, 2021

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Preview 4 is here and it brings a lot of interesting stuff. Preview 4 adds a few more features that can be used to build functional apps for all the currently supported platforms, this […]

June 1, 2021

Closures are often associated with functional programming languages. Closures connect a function to its referencing environment, allowing the function to access non-local variables. In C#, closures are supported using anonymous methods, lambda expressions, and delegates. I have discussed anonymous methods […]

May 28, 2021

It’s impossible to ignore security in the tech industry. LinkedIn, Google Ads, and now even Instagram are all touting their own security tools, methodologies, and consultancy services. Why then, with there being such a buzz around security, is it a […]

May 27, 2021

The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is now generally available, providing a no-cost distribution of open source Java that could vie with Oracle’s Java distributions for the hearts and minds of enterprise software developers. Released May 25 after being in a […]

May 27, 2021

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 v16.10, an update to the flagship IDE that emphasizes C++ 20 support, and a preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.11, a point release that centers on a new Hot Reload capability. Both releases were […]