Understanding data encoding and normalization is an absolutely essential skill when working with neural networks. James McCaffrey walks you through what you need to know to get started.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/15/2014
The free extension currently works only with Visual Studio 2013.
It started with user group pizza. It still hasn't ended. How Rocky Lhotka's life changed -- forever -- in an instant.
Information expected on the next version of Windows, rumored to be called "Windows 9".
Just because your language can do it, it doesn't mean that you should.
Nick Randolph walks through adding analytics to your Windows Phone application using Application Insights for Visual Studio Online.
- By Nick Randolph
- 01/13/2014
Toolbox is a collection of handy tools, libraries, frameworks and information that helps you code. In this installment I've collected some new and popular JavaScript frameworks and testing tools.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 01/10/2014
Regular expressions are like power tools: They may look scary, but are easy to use once you understand their basic building blocks.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 01/09/2014
Coverity 7.0 also focuses sharply on Web application security.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/08/2014
You can't "grow" a fluent API; you need to understand how developers will need (and expect) to use your API. Here's a case study of what the design process for a fluent API looks like.
Once you've delivered server-side objects to your client, you're going to need to manage them. Here's how to integrate a powerful client-side (and server-side) object manager into your application using TypeScript.
Go inside the protocol that's the backbone for today's modern, cloud-based applications.
- By Patrick Steele
- 12/23/2013
Peter continues to look at the value of imposing naming conventions on developers; but this time, he looks at the benefits related to understanding the business problem, as well as why flexibility is crucial.
Mark Michaelis walks you through the Visual Studio tooling and project setup you'll need to get the most out of your JavaScript unit testing.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 12/19/2013
Although mathematically elegant, back-propagation isn't perfect. Instead consider using particle swarm optimization (PSO) to train your neural network; here's how.
- By James McCaffrey
- 12/18/2013
JNBridgePro 7.1 connects Java and .NET Framework-based components.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/18/2013
Apple's latest mobile operating system is chock full of developer goodies. Learn about some of the best ones, and how to build them with C# and Xamarin.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/17/2013
Mickey looks at the changes to static code analysis since Visual Studio 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 12/13/2013
Next year's developer show is slated for April 2-4.
Learn how to cluster your numeric data using the k-means algorithm in this step-by-step guide.
- By James McCaffrey
- 12/10/2013