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CODE Magazine continues to publish technical “how to” and “overview” articles about current and new technologies, as we have for over 25 years with sample source code, showing new and experienced developers modern techniques for how to build software used inside companies, on mobile devices and deployed to the cloud. Join our audience of software professionals every other month.

Are You Ready to Pivot? • As they like to say, a picture is worth a thousand words and the picture you see below (Figure 1) is proof positive. This editorial you’re reading is a direct result of the ideas I “chicken-scratched” on a stack of post-it notes. This set of notes came from a conversation Melanie Spiller and I were having about collaboration, in particular the concept of remote collaboration. We discussed at length how our work, and how we perform it, was greatly transformed during the COVID crisis. COVID affected every one of us in profound ways and we were forced to create new ways of working together, albeit remotely. We had to change how we collaborated.

CODE: 25 Years Ago

Passkey Authentication

You're Missing Out on Open-Source LLMs! • By now, I’m certain, you tried one of the many online services that allow you to use a Large Language Model. If so, you might even be familiar with responses like, “I’m sorry, but I cannot provide assistance on …”. In this practical guide, I will talk about why open-source language models are important, why you’d want to use them, how to choose and where to find a model, and how to run them on your own local or hosted machine.

Prototyping LangChain Applications Visually Using Flowise

Semantic Kernel 101: Part 2 • In the previous installment (https://codemag.com/Article/2401091/Semantic-Kernel-101), I Introduced Semantic Kernel (SK), Microsoft’s framework for working with LLMs, which was in preview at the time. I didn’t include any code in that article because Semantic Kernel was still changing fast and almost every line of code would likely have been out of date before you read it.

Aspirational .NET: What Is .NET Aspire?

Distributed Caching: Enhancing Scalability and Performance in ASP.NET 8 Core

C# for High-Performance Systems

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