Issue: 2020 - March/April

  • Sofware developers grow in a community of their peers.
  • Learn how to use Azure CLI to automate the deployment of complicated Azure infrastructure.
  • Learn to test JavaScript using the Visual Studio Code editor using Node.js as a JavaScript execution environment.
  • Discover a data-driven approach to make changes to a database table without updating security in your WPF application.
  • Peter uses the Hot Chocolate Library to teach you about GraphQL. Learn how to use the Entity Framework to access and store data and explore mutations using GraphQL.
  • Rod writes the editorial of his life after visiting Earling Studios in the UK where they filmed the TV series Devs in 2019. In Jan 2020, interviewed Alex Garland, the creator-writer-director of Devs.
  • Learn about deep learning, and a bit about the math involved, in this overview of a very complex topic, including activation functions, backpropagation, TensorFlow and Keras, how to train a neural network and more.
  • Rocky Lhotka describes CSLA .NET, the MIT-licensed open-source framework to organize your business logic, similar in concept to separating the presentation and data layers of an application. Learn to use CSLA in a simple Blazor app.
  • Ted Neward discusses his closing thoughts in his final back-of-the-issue editorial for CODE Magazine.
  • Tim Huckaby and Markus Egger discuss privacy and many other issues that significantly change with artificial intelligence.