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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.

Creative Symbiosis • In her book “The Artist's Way”, author Julia Cameron talks about how we are all creative. Many of us use her “Morning Pages” technique to unlock that creativity. I love the idea of it. I often think about what brings the inner creator to the surface and I have a theory. Our inner creator is split into two symbiotic

Celebrating 30 Years of CODE: A Journey from Dream to Reality

Web Application Authentication • Launch browser. Enter username password. Log in. Done. How hard could it be? This is a challenge I run into when I talk about security and identity. My demos are so boring, because after all that jazz, you see “Hello username” written in Times New Roman. It really punctures the demo, doesn't it? As it turns out, authentication can be quite involved. And it's still evolving every day

Process XML Files Easily Using .NET 6/7 • XML files are very handy for storing data that you might not want to keep in a database. It's a good choice for prototyping because you don't need to set up any database tables and connection strings. Instead, you can send a complete project to a user with embedded XML files that they can try out immediately. XML files can also be used to cache often-used but

Easy Accessibility Wins: Better Accessibility in Five Minutes or Less

Introduction to Real-Time Communication in PHP Laravel • Real-time communication has become a crucial aspect of modern web applications, allowing users to interact with each other and receive immediate updates without the need for manual refreshes. In PHP Laravel, real-time communication can be achieved through various tools and technologies, including Long Polling, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events.

Stages of Data: COVID Data, Summary Dashboards, and Source Data Tips • This article follows up on CODE Magazine COVID-19 articles I wrote back in 2020/2021 with one more (and hopefully last) project article that summarizes COVID deaths in the United States over the last three and a half years. In this project, I'll blend some practices for presenting aggregated data in a summarized storyboard narrative, while also making users aware of potentially

Machine Learning Saves Precious Time: Using AI to Classify Spam • EPS's CODE Magazine division is dedicated to being responsive to our readers, and one of the ways we do that is by allowing readers to contact us through a page on our website https://codemag.com/contact. As you can imagine, this page generates a lot of spam and part of someone's job has been to review all the messages that come in from this page, get rid of the spam

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