Table of contents for Jan/Feb 2025 in CODE Magazine

new. Amazon has used ML to promote items of interest to you while shopping, your mobile phone completes words as you type with decent accuracy, and customer service bots have been able to handle tasks like returns and order statuses without human intervention. What’s new is the capability, flexibility, and accessibility of these tools to companies and developers that don’t have the size or resources of large companies like Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft, etc. Basically, any developer with a small budget and a few simple scripts can begin adding these to their application with minimal effort. This is where we hope CODE Magazine will be a resource for our readers. This issue begins to deliver on this hope. First, Sahil shows you how to use the content of voice audio…

joydipkanjilal@yahoo.com Joydip Kanjilal is an MVP (2007-2012), software architect, author, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience. He has more than 16 years of experience in Microsoft.NET and its related technologies. Joydip has authored eight books, more than 500 articles, and has reviewed more than a dozen books. responsibilities among read and write models. This article discusses the CQRS pattern, why it’s important, and shows how you can implement the CQRS pattern in Microservices-based applications. If you’re to work with the code examples discussed in this article, you need the following installed in your system: • Visual Studio 2022 • .NET 9.0 • ASP.NET 9.0 Runtime If you don’t already have Visual Studio 2022 installed on your computer, you can download it from here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. Understanding the Problem…

Thestrangerous.substack.com @jason-murphy.bsky.social Jason is a writer, AI enthusiast, and media creator. As the producer and co-host of Hacking the System on the National Geographic Channel, he stole cars in Hollywood, made improvised smoke bombs, and prepared for the apocalypse. On YouTube, he co-created and hosted the Modern Rogue, where he explored hacking, lock-picking, and tradecraft. After publishing multiple speculative fiction novels and writing a produced screenplay, Jason is currently exiled in the desert, where he stares into the future with awe and terror. And he still wants to make a video game. That’s a feature, not a bug. Still, I was poor and there was no internet, no way for me to actually get my hands on the books. D&D was a mystery to me. I didn’t know how it…

www.winsmarts.com @sahilmalik Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, a .NET author, consultant, and trainer. Sahil loves interacting with fellow geeks in real time. His talks and trainings are full of humor and practical nuggets. His areas of expertise are cross-platform Mobile app development, Microsoft anything, and security and identity. The year 1964 was when the Ford Mustang was introduced. Rotary phones were how you made phone calls, and you wore thick black polycarbonate glasses. Microwave ovens were a new thing, as were color TVs. As the world danced to “Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison, or “Twist and Shout” by the Beatles, society was looking forward to the seemingly impossible goal of putting man on the moon by the end of the decade. It’s in that enchanting time that…

weimenglee@learn2develop.net http://www.learn2develop.net @weimenglee Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (www.learn2develop.net), a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest technologies. Wei-Meng has many years of training experiences and his training courses place special emphasis on the learning-by-doing approach. His hands-on approach to learning programming makes understanding the subject much easier than reading books, tutorials, and documentation. His name regularly appears in online and print publications such as DevX.com, MobiForge. com, and CODE Magazine. developers to build “chains,” or sequences of actions, with customizable components like prompt templates, model settings, response parsing, and memory management. It also supports integration with external data sources such as document databases, search indices, APIs, and more— a feature commonly referred to as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This flexibility empowers developers…

www.internet.com Mike is the CEO of EPS’s Houston office and a skilled .NET developer. Mike excels at evaluating business requirements and turning them into results from development teams. He’s been the Project Lead on many projects at EPS and promotes the use of modern best practices, such as the Agile development paradigm, use of design patterns, and test-drive and test-first development. Before coming to EPS, Mike was a business owner developing a high-profile software business in the leisure industry. He grew the business from two employees to over 30 before selling the company and looking for new challenges. Implementation experience includes .NET, SQL Server, Windows Azure, Microsoft Surface, and Visual FoxPro. ARM Copilot+ PC laptops have been shipping since midJune, my Dev Kit didn’t arrive until mid-October, about three months…

http://www.pdsa.com Paul has been working in the IT industry since 1985. In that time, he has successfully assisted hundreds of companies’ architect software applications to solve their toughest business problems. Paul has been a teacher and mentor through various mediums such as video courses, blogs, articles and speaking engagements at user groups and conferences around the world. Paul has multiple courses in the www.pluralsight.com library (https://bit.ly/3gvXgvj) and on YouTube.com (https://www.youtube.com/@pauldsheriff) on topics ranging from C#, LINQ, JavaScript, Angular, MVC, WPF, XML, jQuery, and Bootstrap. Contact Paul at psheriff@pdsa.com. design patterns to create reusable, maintainable, and testable applications. You’ll learn to eliminate code in your code-behind by taking advantage of Commanding. You’ll also learn how to apply Commanding while keeping your various components reusable across other types of applications. Finally, you’ll…

myeager@eps-software.com Mike is the CEO of CODE and a skilled .NET and cloud developer. Mike excels at evaluating business requirements and turning them into results from development teams. He’s been the project lead on many projects and promotes the use of modern best practices. Mike has also been an early adopter of Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel, writing articles and giving presentations on it. He’s worked on multiple AI projects, including the development of a copilot for working with specialized legal contracts, focusing on efficiently ingestion and searching large volumes of documents to increase the relevance and quality of the copilot’s responses. Before coming to CODE, Mike was a business owner developing a high-profile software business in the leisure industry. He grew the business from 2 employees to over 30 before selling…