Issue: 2022 - May/June

It takes a village to build a great app with real staying power. Rod reflects on the myth of the Lone Wolf coder.

Sahil discusses some details about how blockchains work some things that blockchains are useful for.

Paul shows you the benefits of a Router class to maintain minimal Web APIs.

Julie says that integration testing is the key to tracking changes in EF Core. Learn what you need to know to get up and running with it.

You don’t want to wait—and you don’t want your users to wait—while your application completely rebuilds itself for a simple query. Jeffrey shows you how Marten can store whole documents as a single element in your database and deliver the whole thing in one quick gesture.

Cosmos is a document storage tool for database developers. You’ll want to consider what Shawn reveals about this spiffy tool before you build your next app.

Bilal is determined to make you a better coder. This time, he embarks on a deep dive into the M of Model View Controller applications in PHP Laravel.

If you have a fancy new computer or phone, you might already be using facial recognition. Wei-Meng explains how this exciting technology is at once simpler than you think and crazy complicated—and super cool!

Whether you realize it or not, you’ve been benefiting from caching for years. Joydip tells you how and why to use caching to your best advantage.

John remembers the good old days of FoxPro and revisits some of the lessons learned from the Fox community.