Software Innovation: Ruby on Rails – The Framework that Rewired The Web with MVC and Convention
It wasn’t the first web framework. It may not be the flashiest these days in 2025. But Ruby on Rails was revolutionary when it hit…
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Goodbye: MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA Certifications are Retiring
In the continuation of the move towards all role-based certifications, Microsoft has announced that they are officially retiring all of the MCSE, MCSD, and MCSA…
Perform Vector Database Similarity Search in .NET Apps using Build5Nines.SharpVector
The ability to efficiently search and retrieve documents based on their semantic content has become increasingly important; especially when it comes to building Generative AI…
AZ-203 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Certification Exam (RETIRED)
The AZ-203 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests your expertise across all…
Microsoft and Anthropic Collaborate to Develop Official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Anthropic to develop an official C# Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This collaboration aims…
Introduction to Building AI Agents with Phidata and Python
Phidata is a Python framework designed for creating AI assistants that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), memory, knowledge, and tools. If you’ve ever wanted to…
Software Innovation: Git – Distributed Version Control System That Changed Everything
Few tools have been as transformative — or as quietly omnipresent — as Git. Now twenty years old, Git is not just a version control…
Big Thinkers: Douglas Crockford – The Man Behind JSON and JSLint
Douglas Crockford is a renowned figure in the programming world, celebrated for his pivotal contributions to JavaScript and the creation of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).…
Using Azure Storage Queues from C# and .NET Framework
Azure Storage Queues provide an easy to implement messaging communication mechanism for reliably passing messages to/from different components of a single application or multiple applications.…
Azure Media AI Hands-on Lab – Microsoft Cloud Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn how to build, setup, and configure a Web Application that performs media streaming using Azure Services; including the Video…
What is Podman and How Does it Compare to Docker?
Docker has long been the dominant container engine, but it’s not the only one. After all, Kubernetes moved away from Docker several years ago to…
Free eBook: Python Data Science Handbook
The book “Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data” published by O’Reilly and written by Jake VanderPlas is available for purchase in…
Software Innovation: jQuery – The Tiny Library that Transformed the Web
“Write less, do more.” That motto wasn’t just a clever tagline—it was a revolution. Before modern JavaScript frameworks became the norm, jQuery quietly changed everything.…
From Stuck to Senior: How Mentorship Accelerates Your Cloud, DevOps & AI Career
The journey from junior engineer to senior Cloud, DevOps or even AI professional can feel like climbing an ever-growing mountain. New tools. Shifting best practices.…
Setup Visual Studio 2022 Development VM in Microsoft Azure
Sure, you could always install Visual Studio 2022 on your local machine, but there are times when a quick, easy to provision Virtual Machine with…
Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell
Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the…
AZ-201 Microsoft Azure Developer Advanced Solutions Certification Exam (RETIRED)
The AZ-201 Microsoft Azure Developer Advanced Solutions certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests your expertise across all…
Azure Functions: Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts in C#
I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob…
Fix Kubernetes Dashboard Strange 401 Unauthorized, 503 Service Unavailable Errors
When working with Kubernetes (K8s) using a kubectl proxy, or even in Azure with the az aks browse command using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). There…
Visual Studio Online Web-based IDE Private Preview
“Developing for the cloud, in the cloud” has been a pretty cool idea for some time now. There are times when locally installed developer tools…