(Michael) In the First Part of the series, we talked about the Pipeline Pattern in programming. Also known as the Pipes and Filters design pattern.

(Brian Overland and John Bennett) Master crafters need many things, but, above all, they need to master the tools of the profession. This chapter introduces tools that, even if you’re a fairly experienced Python programmer, you may not have yet learned.

(Phil Haack) Azure has a neat feature that runs Azure Functions from a package file (aka a zip file). This same feature also applies to Azure Web Apps, though you wouldn’t know it from the documentation.

(Oded Dvoskin) Application development has radically changed over the years. From having to host all the physical hardware hosting the app and its dependences on-premises, to moving to a model where the hardware is hosted by external companies yet still managed by the users on to hosting your apps o

(Ben Nadel) When Adobe ColdFusion first introduced the cfthread tag, a lot of us stumbled over the fact that attributes are passed by deep-copy into the cfthread body.

(Scott Hanselman) In a world where JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is everywhere it’s long been somewhat frustrating that .NET didn’t have built-in JSON support.

(Ben Nadel) When Adobe ColdFusion introduced the CFThread tag for asynchronous processing, they decided to prevent developers from nested it. That is, they explicitly prevent one CFThread tag from spawning a child CFThread tag.

(Peter Foot) In creating an IOBluetooth binding for Xamarin Mac I learned about Objective Sharpie and binding libraries.

(Scott Hanselman) I’PowerShell Mascotm a huge fan of .NET Core global tools. I’ve done a podcast on Global Tools.

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET Core web applications often need to authenticate users accessing the application. There are many authentication schemes you can use to accomplish this task.