(Andrei Nagy) JSON, stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It’s the de facto standard for server-client data communication. In this post, we will go over a few concepts about data and demo using JSON in a Xcode Playground. You are encouraged to try out and modify examples.

(Yogi S.) This tutorial helps you to implement jQuery AJAX in your ASP.NET MVC project. You will also learn how to use Entity Framework in doing database operations.

(David Walsh) Last week I wrote 6 Great Uses of the Spread Operator, a post detailing how awesome the spread operator (…) is for working with arrays and other iterable objects. As always my readers chimed in with a few other great uses and which you should check out in the comments.

(Rick Strahl) I still deal with a lot of customers who need to interact with old school SOAP services. Recently I worked with a customer who needed to implement a SOAP Service based on an existing WSDL specification.

(Paul Krill) Oracle is banking on REST and JSON to modernize Java EE for microservices and the cloud.

(marcus Obrien) I use three different OO languages all the time, and all of them obviously support inheritance and late binding or virtual functions.

(Abraham Marín Pérez) A new JEP has been filed with proposed changes to enhance lambda functionality, including better disambiguation, use of the underscore for unused parameters, and shadowing of outer variables.

(Prashant Bansal) Based on the latest recommendations from Microsoft, the user interface of SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint Online should be customized, using Client Side Frameworks and not using Traditional Master Page Customization, based on the branding solutions.

(Jovan Popovic) Complex properties in entity Framework models such as arrays, dictionaries, and objects can be serialized in SQL Server database in JSON format. In this article I will show you how to map your properties in EF model to database columns that contain JSON.

(James Sinclair) In the previous article, we suggested that indentation is an (extremely rough) indicator of complexity. Our goal is to write less complex JavaScript. We do this by choosing the right abstraction to solve a problem.