(Steve Smith) Recently I had one of my newsletter subscribers ask me a question about whether it was a good practice to use a boolean parameter to alter the behavior of a method.

(Andrew Lock) This post is in response to a discussion I had with a friend recently who was trying out .NET Core.

(Ben Nadel) When you invoke the CFExecute tag in ColdFusion, there is no option to execute the given command from a particular working directory. That’s why I recently looked at using the ProcessBuilder class to execute commands in ColdFusion.

(James McCaffrey) Regular logistic regression is a machine learning technique that can be used for binary classification. An example is predicting whether a person is male or female based on predictor variables such as age, height, weight, and so on.

Because C++ imposes no structure on the data stored in files, they typically are stored in an unordered format. Therefore, if we want to set any form of order in the file data, we must do so programmatically.

(Eric L. Anderson) In this post, we are going to refactor our sample Azure DevOps Pipeline to move some of the redundant YAML to a new file and replace the redundant parts of our main YAML file.

(Abhijit Jana) You can revert Azure DevOps Pipeline in case of any unexpected changes or wanted to return to any of the previous versions. Azure DevOps keep track of every change in Build Pipeline or Release Pipeline.

(Ben Nadel) The older I get, the more zoomed-in my browser tends to become. I just don’t have the patience for small-text – I want my font-sizes to feel luxurious and decadent.

(David Ramel) Tech careers firm Dice’s latest job report attempts to gauge the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hiring. One finding of special interest to Visual Studio Magazine readers is less desire for .NET and C# skills.

(Jason Roberts) One little-known feature of the xUnit.net testing framework is the ability to write test method names in a specific way and then have them converted to a ‘pretty’ version for example in Visual Studio Test Explorer.