Microsoft to fix longstanding issues with Identity in .NET, drops dependency on commercial IdentityServer
The forthcoming .Net 8 will fix key issues in ASP.NET Core identity libraries, including removing a dependency on […]
Google’s confusing pitch for WebAssembly as a ‘new dawn of expanded functionality’
Google’s Thomas Nattestad, product manager for V8 and WebAssembly (Wasm), has posted on the Chromium blog about the […]
Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code, previews Copilot Chat and a Python-writing Data Wrangler
Along with a Visual Studio Code update to version 1.77, Microsoft has previewed fresh features including a Data […]
How personalization crashed BBC iPlayer at the height of lockdown, and how it was fixed
Manisha Lopes, principal software engineer at the BBC, spoke to developers at QCon London this week, describing how […]
Wasm-based Spin 1.0 released to address ‘limitations of serverless’
Fermyon has released Spin 1.0, the first stable version of its open source tool for compiling applications to […]
Microsoft’s Leslie Miley, technical advisor to the CTO, warns devs of both bias in AI and its environmental cost
QCon London kicked off this week, opening with a sombre keynote from Leslie Miley, Microsoft technical advisor to […]
Despite OpenJDK, 70% of Java fixes and features come from Oracle, Big Red says
Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% […]
Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die
Developer Alan Cooper conceived Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) as a “shell construction kit,” according to a new history […]