Issue: 2018 - September/October

  • Melanie talks about birdsong, music, and language.
  • In this next installment of his exploration into artificial intelligence, Sahil show you how to get LUIS to understand even if you misspell or mispronounce something.
  • In this second installment of his Angular security series, Paul authenticates a user against a SQL Server table and secures Web API methods with the JSON Web Token standard.
  • You’ve probably heard about Facebook’s new JavaScript library, React. Milton shows you how it works and encourages you to consider using it on your next project.
  • Visual Studio Code is the hot new thing these days. Vassili tells you how to take advantage of some of its features, including CSCS, Rich Language Services, REPL language interpretation, and debugging.
  • Just when JavaScript seemed aggravatingly ubiquitous, Rick bumped into Web Assembly and Blazor, and learned that there are choices when it comes to compiling code.
  • Ted gives some good advice for what to do when you become a manager for the first time.