Stop Burning Premium Requests: How to Choose the Right GitHub Copilot Model for the Job
There’s a moment every developer knows. You ask an AI coding assistant a simple question like: “Rename this variable and update the related tests.” Then…
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AI Won’t End Outsourcing or Entry-Level Jobs, but It Will Rewrite Both
For decades, the technology industry has had a fairly predictable way of handling repetitive work. When a task was important but time-consuming, companies often sent…
Python: Get YouTube Video Transcript from URL for use in Generative AI and RAG Summarization
There are times when it’s necessary to download the text transcript of a YouTube video using Python. This can be done with the help of…
Introduction to Azure Maps – Geospatial and Location APIs
The Azure Maps service is a Platform-as-a-Service API offering within the Microsoft Azure cloud that provides geospatial / GIS capabilities. The Azure Maps service enables…
Azure Functions: Extend Execution Timeout Past 5 Minutes
Azure Functions is the Serverless compute option within the Microsoft Azure platform. One of the biggest benefits of Azure Functions, and Serverless compute, is that…
Create React App is Now Deprecated: Time to Migrate to Vite or Next.js
The React team has officially announced the deprecation of Create React App (CRA) in favor of more modern and efficient tools like Vite and Next.js.…
6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know
When teams start building multi-agent AI systems, the first instinct is to wire agents together with ad-hoc scripts. Call Agent A. Then call Agent B.…
Run Gemma 4 Locally with GitHub Copilot and VS Code
Local AI development is getting really interesting. For a long time, using AI coding assistants meant relying almost entirely on cloud-hosted models. You installed an…
Organizing Azure Blob Storage with Virtual Directories in C#
Azure Blob Storage is designed as a flat storage system without a traditional hierarchical structure. However, by incorporating forward slashes (/) in blob names, you…
Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet
When setting up CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipelines in Azure DevOps for .NET 7+ solutions, such as those using ASP.NET Core, it’s important…
Introduction to Building AI Agents with LangChain and Python
LangChain is a tool for more easily creating AI agents that can autonomously perform tasks. These agents can streamline operations, enhance user experiences, and handle…
Azure Web App: Application Settings
All web applications have some kind of configurations that are set on the server. The method of storing and accessing these settings varies on different…
How to Use Build5Nines.SharpVector with Microsoft Agent Framework for Local RAG in C#
There is a moment every developer hits when building an AI agent: the demo works, the model responds, the tool calls fire, and everything feels…
The Software Dark Factory and the Future of Software Development
The term “dark factory” comes from manufacturing. It refers to a factory that is so automated it can run with the lights off. No people…
How to Write AI Prompts That Output Valid JSON Data
When working with LLMs, an extremely valuable use case is generating structured data as the output response of the AI prompt. Whether you’re building an…
Fix .NET Core HTTP Error 500.30 After Publish to App Service from Visual Studio
We all know that in production environments we shouldn’t use the “right-click publish” feature within Visual Studio. However, there are plenty of development scenarios where…
How to Write AI Prompts That Output Valid CSV Data
When working with Large Language Models (LLMs), generating structured outputs like CSV (Comma-Separated Values) is invaluable for tasks such as data analysis, reporting, and integration…
The Cheapest AI Request Is The Script You Only Had To Generate Once
There’s a funny pattern that shows up when developers start using AI tools heavily. At first, we ask the model to do everything directly. Find…
Free Website Hosting in Microsoft Azure
There are many excellent reasons to use Microsoft Azure to host applications and enterprise systems. There’s even plenty of criticisms on it being expensive to…
Getting Started with Visual Studio Codespaces – Cloud IDE
The Visual Studio Codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online / VSO) web-based IDE is now available to be used. Based on the popular Visual Studio Code…