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As you may know, you can send Slack notifications using Azure Logic Apps. Yes, there is a built-in connector; but, frankly, using the Slack API gives you better results. Link to article: https://www.code4it.dev/blog/send-slack-messages-using-azure-logic-apps/
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OpenAI expands its Trusted Access for Cyber program, introducing GPT-5.4-Cyber to vetted defenders and strengthening safeguards as AI cybersecurity capabilities advance. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-defense
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Master C# string manipulation with this complete guide covering .NET 6-9 APIs, Span, raw literals, StringBuilder, and performance best practices. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/13/c-strings-complete-guide-to-string-manipulation-in-net
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This post demonstrates how Lambda enables scalable, cost-effective reward functions for Amazon Nova customization. You'll learn to choose between Reinforcement Learning via Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for objectively verifiable tasks and Reinforcement Learning via AI Feedback (RLAIF) for subjective evaluation, design …
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This post is a collaboration between Docker and Arm, demonstrating how Docker MCP Toolkit and the Arm MCP Server work together to scan Hugging Face Spaces for Arm64 Readiness. In our previous post, we walked through migrating a legacy C++ application with AVX2 intrinsics to Arm64 using Docker MCP Toolkit and the Arm …
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A colleague told me that there was an O(N) algorithm for finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1. There must be a duplicate due to the pigeonhole principle. There might be more than one duplicated value; you merely have to find any duplicate.¹ Link to article: …
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Master adapter pattern best practices in C# including composition over inheritance, single responsibility, error translation, and organized adapter architectures. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/13/adapter-pattern-best-practices-in-c-code-organization-and-maintainability
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Roslyn analyzers are great for enforcing coding standards and finding bugs. However, they can sometimes report false positives or warnings you want to ignore in specific contexts. You can suppress these warnings using #pragma directives or [SuppressMessage] attributes, but both approaches require modifying the source …
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Your agents can now draw on skills authored in three different ways – as files on disk, as inline C# code, or as encapsulated classes – and combine them freely in a single provider. Add built-in script execution support and a human-approval mechanism for script calls, and you have a practical authoring model that fits …
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Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world tasks with speed and security. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/cloudflare-openai-agent-cloud
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I'm really pleased to announce the publication of my latest Pluralsight course, "Refactoring to SOLID in C# 14". It aims to provide C# developers with practical techniques and strategies to tackle the unique challenges of working in legacy codebases, such as dealing with technical debt, modernizing outdated …
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Building a VS Code-style extension system in C# means implementing extension points, activation events, and contribution points. Complete .NET 8 guide. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/12/building-a-vs-codestyle-extension-system-in-c
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I’ve been piddling this weekend with testing out JasperFx Software‘s soon to be officially curated AI Skills. To test and refine those new skills, I’ve been using my buddies Chris Woodruff and Joseph Guadagno‘s MoreSpeakers application as a sample application to port to Wolverine and Marten (and a half dozen others too …
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Build a complete composite pattern real-world example in C# with a permission system featuring users, groups, and recursive permission resolution. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/12/composite-pattern-realworld-example-in-c-complete-implementation
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Count vs IsEmpty can be the difference between fast code and a performance disaster. For some immutable and concurrent collections, the wrong choice is tens of thousands of times slower. Link to article: …
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Strategies for testing plugin architectures in C# with xUnit -- unit testing, contract tests, and integration testing for extensible .NET plugin systems. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/11/testing-plugin-architectures-in-c-strategies-for-extensible-systems
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Discover when to use adapter pattern in C# with real decision criteria, use case examples, and guidance on when simpler alternatives work better. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/11/when-to-use-adapter-pattern-in-c-decision-guide-with-examples
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Long-running business processes don't fit neatly into a single request. Wolverine's Saga support gives you a convention-based approach to orchestrating workflows in .NET - with built-in timeout handling and compensation. Here's how to implement a user onboarding saga. Link to article: …
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Master plugin lifecycle management in C# with patterns for initialization, activation, hot reload, and graceful unloading in .NET applications. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/04/10/plugin-lifecycle-management-in-c-loading-activation-and-unloading
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We're excited to announce the stable release of Azure MCP Server 2.0, a significant milestone for building secure and flexible agentic workflows on Azure. Azure MCP Server is open-source software that implements the Model Context Protocol specification and enables AI agen Link to article: …
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