The dotNetDave No Rest for the Wicked World Tour will visit Austin on November 20, 2025, where I will present a session titled "Röck Yoür Cöde." This session addresses critical issues in memory management related to disposable types in .NET, offering practical techniques to enhance application performance and …

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In this post, we demonstrate that fine-tuning VLMs provides a powerful and flexible approach to automate and significantly enhance document understanding capabilities. We also demonstrate that using focused fine-tuning allows smaller, multi-modal models to compete effectively with much larger counterparts (98% accuracy …

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In this post, we demonstrate how Clario has used Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services to build an AI-powered solution that automates and improves the analysis of COA interviews. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-clario-automates-clinical-research-analysis-using-generative-ai-on-aws/

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Some time ago, I described the purpose of the icons in the moricons.dll and progman.exe icon libraries, along with a list of which programs Windows automatically associated the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251110-00/?p=111779

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Welcome to the fourth annual Docker State of Application Development survey! Please help us better understand and serve the application development community with just 20 minutes of your time. We want to know where you’re focused, what you’re working on, and what is most important to you. Your thoughts and feedback …

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This blog post was brought to you by Damaso Sanoja, draft.dev. Deciding whether to use Python or Rust isn’t just a syntax choice; it’s a career bet. According to the StackOverflow Developer Survey, Python dominates in accessibility, with 66.4% of people learning to code choosing it as their entry point. Python usage …

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Azure Cosmos DB is engineered from the ground up to deliver high availability, low latency, throughput, and consistency guarantees for globally distributed applications. As mission-critical systems increasingly rely on Cosmos DB for performance at scale, understanding and configuring advanced high availability feature …

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C# has long supported extension methods, allowing developers to add new methods to existing types without modifying the original type. However, this capability was limited to instance methods. With C# 14, the language introduces extension members, significantly expanding what you can extend. You can now add extension …

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Go turns 16 this year. To celebrate this milestone, we have taken a closer look at the latest Developer Ecosystem Survey results and examined the evolution of the Go ecosystem over the past five years. According to JetBrains Data Playground, 2.2 million professional developers use Go as their primary programming …

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The post shows how to use the Swiss Digital identity and trust infrastructure, (swiyu) as an MFA method in an ASP.NET Core web application using ASP.NET Core Identity and Duende IdentityServer. The generic containers from swiyu are used to integrate the Swiss E-ID and the OpenID for Verifiable Presentations standards. …

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OpenAI is offering U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation a free year of ChatGPT Plus to support their transition to civilian life. The tools can help with resumes, interviews, education, and planning for what’s next. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-veterans

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Enums enhance code readability but can lead to errors if not validated, as any integer can be cast as an Enum, including invalid values. Validating Enum inputs prevents silent data corruption, ensures meaningful defaults, and avoids processing impossible states. Always validate at method boundaries and define a zero …

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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the vibes. And they are indeed immaculate. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/11/08/vibe-coding-20-dev-leader-weekly-115

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Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/11/08/weekly-recap-20251107

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Distributed systems don't fail cleanly: they retry, duplicate, and occasionally fail. This article shows how to design resilient message handlers in .NET using broker-level idempotency and the Idempotent Consumer pattern, so your system stays consistent no matter how many times a message is delivered. Link to article: …

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The USB MIDI 1.0 specification was released in the late 90s around the same time that PCs were starting to move from rectangular beige boxes to things like fake-silvered bulbous plastic shapes. At this point, some of the code in Windows to support USB MIDI 1.0 has become intergenerational – it's certainly older than my …

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In this blog post, we explore how TR addressed key business use cases with Open Arena, a highly scalable and flexible no-code AI solution powered by Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda. We'll explain how TR …

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Today, we are excited to announce the addition of structured output to Custom Model Import. Structured output constrains a model's generation process in real time so that every token it produces conforms to a schema you define. Rather than relying on prompt-engineering tricks or brittle post-processing scripts, you can …

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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-25-4-2-and-1-24-10-1-microsoft-builds-now-available

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Reducing latency by 50% and scaling intelligent CX for SMBs This article was co-authored by Sergey Galchenko, Chief Technology Officer, IntelePeer, and Subhash Ramamoorthi, Director, IntelePeer AI Hub. Don’t miss: Discover how IntelePeer enhances agent intelligence and powers their multi-agent Link to article: …

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