(Marinko Spasojevic) Email Confirmation is quite an important part of the user registration process. It allows us to verify the registered user is indeed an owner of the provided email. But why is this important?

(James McCaffrey) A radial basis function (RBF) network is a software system that is similar to a single hidden layer neural network. In this article I explain how to design an RBF network and describe how an RBF network computes its output.

(James) With my recent role change I’m getting most of my coding kicks for fun these days – which means I’m working almost entirely on OSS and get to play around with whatever takes my fancy!

(Andrew Lock) I was listening to the Azure DevOps Podcast with Jeffrey Palermero recently and heard Kathleen Dollard mention that there were some updates to the global.json file and .NET Core SDK in 3.0.

(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I looked at how to get the RGB/HEX color of a pixel using GraphicsMagick and Lucee CFML. Continuing my exploration of how I might use GraphicsMagick to replace ColdFusion’s native CFImage functionality, I wanted to look at how I might read an image’s Width and Height attribute

(Scott Hanselman) I’ve blogged before about ASP.NET Architect David Fowler’s hidden gems in ASP.NET. His GitHub is worth following because he’s always exploring and thinking and he’s doing it in public. I love reading other people’s source code.

(Steve Smith) Have you ever been on a software team for a while, and then someone new joins the team and starts asking the usual questions about why this or that technology or pattern is being used on the project?

(David Ramel) Microsoft released .NET 5 Preview 1, the first iteration of what will become one framework to handle all .NET development projects.

(Neel Bhatt) In this article, we will see how we can skip Identity server 4 login page if we have integrated Azure AD with identity server 4.

(Ben Nadel) Now that I have my GraphicsMagick Docker playground up and running, it’s time to start recreating some functionality with the gm command-line tool that I would have historically done with ColdFusion’s CFImage tag.