(Rick Strahl) As you may know, I have a .NET Core based generic LiveReloadWebServer that can serve static (and Razor Pages) Web content generically out of an arbitrary folder.

(Scott Hanselman) I like to showcase interesting and cool open source projects that need more attention! Go give our friend a star on GitHub! NetCoreBlockly on GitHub is clever and fun!

(Andrew Lock) ASP.NET Core has an extensive authorization system that you can use to create complex authorization policies. In this post, I look at the various ways you can apply these policies to large sections of your application.

(James McCaffrey) Preparing data for use in a machine learning (ML) system is time consuming, tedious, and error prone. A reasonable rule of thumb is that data preparation requires at least 80 percent of the total time needed to create an ML system.

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was watching the new Hannah Gadsby comedy special (which is great, by the way), when something she said about Art got me thinking about Programming.

(Christian Nagel) In part 1 of this article series Dependency Injection was covered – one of the features of the Host class. This article shows another aspect that’s needed by nearly every application: configuration.

(James Randall) If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed a growing disillusionment on my part with open source software – not its usefulness but rather the culture, business and economics.

(Ben Nadel) Earlier this week, I took a look at using ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses within an UPDATE statement in MySQL 5.6.37 in order to limit the scope of the data-mutation.

(David Ramel) While the latest TIOBE Index of programming language popularity isn’t earth-shaking — focusing on an all-time high for statistical language R — perhaps the the biggest surprise is this: Classic Visual Basic (VB6) is still in the top 20.

(Patrick Smacchia) In this post we assume the the reader knows the basics of debugging with Visual Studio: