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The journey towards a knowledge graph for generative AI
11+ hour, 28+ min ago (434+ words) Early search engines like Alta Vista relied on simple keyword matching, treating web pages as isolated entities. However, web pages are interconnected through hyperlinks. Google transformed search by recognizing that the world wide web is not merely a collection of…...
Anthropic's Claude Tag aims to turn workplace AI from a personal assistant into a teammate
11+ hour, 28+ min ago (355+ words) The Slack-based offering could reduce coordination overhead for engineering and business teams....
Using Visual Studio Code's "air-gapped' AI model mode
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (739+ words) Microsoft has been pushing hard to make Visual Studio Code a major way to consume its AI services, mostly in the form of Git Hub Copilot. Git Hub Copilot's deep integration with VS Code brings many conveniences " inline autocomplete, for…...
Writing good unit tests, Part 1: Follow your GUTs
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (989+ words) Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it's clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are as important as…...
Database design tips for developers
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (957+ words) It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots. Things slowly get worse. What starts out as cool and clean becomes "what the hell were they thinking'before you know it. But that doesn't mean we sit back and…...
How to implement idempotent APIs in ASP. NET Core
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (703+ words) In this article, we'll examine how to build idempotent APIs in ASP. NET Core with relevant code examples to illustrate the concepts covered. To use the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2022 installed in your…...
China's OPhone makes its way to the U. S. as Android+
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (304+ words) Beijing software company Borqs is the little-known company behind China Mobile's Google Android-based OPhone operating system. It may soon find fame in the U. S. if its software finds its way into the hands of U. S. users of Dell's Aero smartphone on the…...
A first look at the new Azure SDKs
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (376+ words) Using an SDK that's tailored to whatever language you're using simplifies the process considerably, turning calls into methods and responses into objects. There's no need to translate data formats or build complex query strings, reducing the risk of error. Microsoft…...
Node. js tutorial: Get started with Node
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1322+ words) Node. js is a popular and versatile cross-platform Java Script runtime environment. Node was the first runtime to allow developers to run Java Script outside the browser, opening a new world of possibilities in server-side Java Script. Its ease of…...
What is devops? Bringing dev and ops together to build better software
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (909+ words) A portmanteau of "development" and "operations," devops emerged as a way of bringing together two previously separate groups responsible for the building and deploying of software. In the old world, developers (devs) typically wrote code before throwing it over to…...