Programming Language Assimilation: BE the Borg - Nulls in Java

Programming Language Assimilation: Be the Borg

John Hoestje Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Programming Leave a Comment

One of the great benefits of learning multiple programming languages is the ability to learn how languages are different from one another and what the best pieces of each language are. I’m not deep into Star Trek, but the Borg Collective fascinated me. Before assimilating a new species, the Borg assessed if the new species was worthy of assimilation. To be worthy, the species’ assimilation would need to get the Borg closer to perfection.

We can think about new programming languages like the Borg treats new species. When we learn a new language, we should measure success based on how it hones our programming tool kit and how its concepts grow our overall programming knowledge and understanding…

The Visual Studio Experience for C# in VS Code

The Visual Studio Experience with C# in VS Code

Adam Costenbader .NET, Articles, C#, Development Technologies & Tools Leave a Comment

There is no doubt that VS Code is one of the most popular development IDEs around these days. With clean layouts and a broad library of extensions that cater to an amazing list of development languages, it’s easy to imagine why it’s so popular. However, when it came to C# development, there were comforts that could be found in Visual Studio but not in VS Code. That is until recently…

This year, Microsoft released an extension for VS Code that helps bring those missing comforts of developing C# in Visual Studio to VS Code: the C# Dev Kit extension, which is approaching 1 million downloads with active updates. If you are an API and UI developer looking to stay in a single IDE, or maybe a Linux developer who is not able to install Visual Studio, this should excite you.

In this post, we’ll walk through some of the features that this extension brings to VS Code.

LDAP Server on AWS

Setting Up an LDAP Server Instance on AWS

Luke Zeisset Articles, AWS, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

This blog describes the basics of what it takes to get an existing LDAP server moved from the PV virtualization type to HVM. I encountered this situation personally while working for a client earlier this year. Efforts have been made to keep most of it generic enough to be useful for other situations involving system upgrades or replacements as well.

Harnessing the Javascript Spread Operator

Alex Cassells Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Tutorial Leave a Comment

The toolset of the JavaScript developer is ever-evolving and ever-changing. Array manipulation saw dramatic improvements in usability, utility, and readability with the release of the ECMAScript 6 standard in 2015. This update was released with game-changing features like arrow functions, scoped variables like ‘let’ and ‘const’, and many other commonly used tools.

As a developer, I use these features on a regular basis when developing in a Javascript environment, whether that’s a front-end library, such as React or Angular, or on the backend through Node. Most developers have experience with arrow functions and scoped variables, which are incredibly common to see throughout modern code bases. One feature included in ECMAScript 6 is the Spread Operator. While I do not often see it used, it is perhaps my favorite.

In this blog, I will cover the Spread Operator. We’ll talk about what it is and how it’s used to manipulate both objects and arrays. We’ll walk through some examples to help you get started using it in your programming along the way. Let’s jump in.

Testing the Current Date/Time in Spring and Java

Keith Shakib Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Spring, Testing, Tutorial 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 2 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.How often in Java services do we need to use the current date and time? Most of us would agree we use it quite …