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CODE Magazine continues to publish technical “how to” and “overview” articles about current and new technologies, as we have for over 25 years with sample source code, showing new and experienced developers modern techniques for how to build software used inside companies, on mobile devices and deployed to the cloud. Join our audience of software professionals every other month.

Hello, World • Before anything else, I want to thank Rod Paddock. Rod became Editor in Chief of CODE Magazine in 2001, back when .NET was still in beta, and held the job until this year. That's twenty-five years of issues, and in all that time the magazine never missed a release. Rod has now retired, and he has earned it

Distilling Models • In my previous article, “Local Vibe Coding with Gemma 4 12B,” (https://www.codemag.com/Article/2610021/Local-Vibe-Coding-with-Gemma-4-12B), I showed you how you can use an open source, open weights model such as Gemma 12B and do vibe coding locally. Your data stays

Building Team-Level AI Coding Guidelines • For many teams, AI-assisted development does not begin with a formal policy decision. It begins quietly, one developer at a time. Someone uses an assistant to generate a few unit tests. Someone else asks it to explain an unfamiliar part of the codebase. A team lead uses it to

Fine Tuning Large Language Models, Part 2 • In part 1 on fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) (https://www.codemag.com/Article/2610031/Fine-Tuning-Large-Language-Models-Part-1), I explored the fundamental approaches to adapting a pretrained model, from feature extraction and partial fine-tuning to full fine-tuning and LoRA.

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Edge Computing with .NET: Architectures for Low-Latency Systems • We're awash in data. Today, we live in a digital world where data is produced and consumed at an unprecedented rate. Today's businesses rely on data to provide critical business insights and control operations and processes in real time. The traditional cloud computing models are

From VS Code to Production: Building and Publishing Azure APIs Without Leaving Your Editor • Every developer knows the productivity tax of context switching: VS Code for writing code, the Azure portal for publishing, Postman for testing, and a browser tab open to Swagger UI for schema validation. This article shows you how to eliminate that tax. You will build an Azure Function API,

Learning AI Together: Meet the Global AI Community • Regular readers know what CODE Magazine covers: languages, frameworks, architecture, and the practical details of building software. We rarely write about organizations. This article breaks that habit, and I want to explain why. Starting with this issue, CODE Magazine partners

Software Development Broke the Security Process Before AI Agents Arrived • Software development organizations did not suddenly become careless about security. They became optimized for something else: speed. Over the past decade, application development has been pushed toward shorter release cycles, continuous delivery and an almost

AI for Laravel and Python Developers: The Practical Mental Model • If you already build applications with Laravel or Python, you do not need to become a machine learning researcher to start building useful AI features. You need a practical mental model. Most developers approach AI from the wrong angle, making AI feel like a strange new universe.

Optimizing the Unconstrained • Why viral AI demos impress by optimizing the unconstrained, and why real software starts when the constraints show up. Picture the kind of clip that goes viral: someone types one sentence into a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM), “make me a neon space shooter with a

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