(Ben Nadel) In 2019, I finally dumped my Windows VirtualBox and XStandard ActiveX blog authoring and moved my content-creation workflow over to using Markdown in ColdFusion.

(Michael Shpilt) Is C# slower than C++? That’s a pretty big question. As a junior developer, I was sure that the answer is “Yes, definitely”.

(Matthew Jones) Let’s see how to render a popover using a dedicated Razor Page and a jQuery AJAX call. Samples included!

(David Ramel) Microsoft is previewing F# 5, the latest iteration of its functional-first programming language, as it moves toward a unifying .NET 5 release in November.

(Eric L. Anderson) I have been doing a lot of work lately with our build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps and while it is fresh on my mind I’m going to do a few posts to remind me of some of the things I have leaned and may or may not have gotten to use.

(Bipin Joshi) If you are keeping an eye on the progress and future direction of .NET you might be aware that somewhere in May 2019 Microsoft announced that the next major release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. And just a few days ago they announced the availability of .NET 5 Preview 1.

(Ben Nadel) The other day, while searching for some GraphicsMagick information, I came across a Stack Overflow post that was discussing an approach to pixelating part of an image.

(Jason Roberts) C# 7.0 introduced the concept of discards. Discards are intentionally unused, temporarily dummy variables that we don’t care about and don’t want to use.

(Abhijit Jana) Grouping Shared Variables in Azure DevOps Pipeline helps to organize and managing common variables across different Build and Release Pipelines.

(David Ramel) The March 2020 update to Microsoft’s wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.