Ondrej Balas continues his discussion on refactoring your code for dependency injection, this time focusing on the composition root pattern.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 06/18/2014
Deep Neural Networks are the more computationally powerful cousins to regular neural networks. Learn exactly what DNNs are and why they are the hottest topic in machine learning research.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/13/2014
Thinking in terms of layers or tiers really isn't much help to you. Stop doing it: The single responsibility principle and design patterns are all you really need.
Prune your Entity Framework with the help of asynchronous methods.
Go deeper into the Oculus Rift SDK.
Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
Learn how the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, coupled with Visual Studio, provides the necessary tools to debug, test, polish and publish your application.
- By Nick Randolph
- 06/02/2014
Entity Framework 6 gives you a variety of ways to call stored procedures that return data and capture the results those procedures return. Here's a look at all of them.
What's proper etiquette for handling code snafus when working for -- literally -- a mom-and-pop company?
Learn how to leverage the powerful resource system of Android to support a variety of Android devices and languages.
- By Greg Shackles
- 05/28/2014
When you implement the Model-View-ViewModel pattern you need to tell your View (in this case, a Windows Form) when the ViewModel has new data. Here's how to do that, along with a warning about how to avoid a potential bug.
A cornucopia of code editing and collaboration software that lets you use the same familiar tools no matter what computer you're working on.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/21/2014
Take control of your application's behavior and move toward dependency injection by refactoring your existing code.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 05/20/2014
Backbone is a popular library for creating MVC/MVVM-like applications in your client. Here's an introduction to Backbone and some best practices for creating a Single-Page Application with TypeScript.
Dropout training is a relatively new algorithm which appears to be highly effective for improving the quality of neural network predictions. It's not yet widely implemented in neural network API libraries. Learn how to use dropout training if it's available in an existing system, or add dropout training to systems where it's not yet available.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/13/2014
Kenny Kerr starts his new series about compiler basics by looking at how to use memory-mapped files to read the original source code.
Peter Vogel moves a Windows Form to a modern design pattern, which forces him to think about how his code should be divided up among his classes. In the end, he comes up with some rules for making those decisions.
It may look like a simple point upgrade, but it isn't. Examine more closely, and you'll see why the latest iteration of Windows Phone is a big deal.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/02/2014
Even in a Code First environment, you can call a stored procedure from a DbContext object. But it's a lot easier if you use the visual designer.
Connect to Twitter from a mobile application using OAuth with the Xamarin.Auth library, along with Joe Mayo's LINQ To Twitter library.
- By Wallace McClure
- 04/25/2014