Exception handling is the technique of handling runtime errors in your application code. Basically, you have two categories of exceptions: Exceptions that are generated by the application and exceptions that are generated by the runtime. Exceptions should be handled with care. You should have a good idea of how exceptions should be handled and when…
Citing a security concern, Microsoft announced it is removing the BinaryFormatter from the planned .NET 9 open source application platform. Microsoft outlined the risk of using BinaryFormatter in an August 28 blog post, stating: “Any deserializer, binary or text, that allows its input to carry information about the objects to be created is a security…
Microsoft has announced the Pinecone .NET SDK, for building AI applications that leverage the Pinecone vector database. With the SDK, Pinecone is becoming the newest member of the AI ecosystem in .NET, Microsoft said. Building AI applications requires efficient vector data processing, Microsoft said in an August 27 blog post. A vector database stores and…
The Clojure-based Humble UI is being developed as a framework for building high-quality desktop UIs. Humble UI’s GitHub page says the framework lets developers build better apps quickly while staying cross-platform. Humble’s principal developer, Nikita Prokopov, said work on Humble UI began in 2020. There is no set date for its completion, and it could…
AWS has added a new feature, dubbed cross-region inferencing, to its Amazon Bedrock generative AI service in order to help developers automate inference routing requests coming to the service during traffic spikes in AI workloads. Cross-region inferencing, which has been made generally available and comes as a no-cost option for developers using on-demand mode inside…
One of the things that distinguishes a veteran Java developer is familiarity with reflection and its modern alternatives. Reflection gives you superpowers, but it is cumbersome, error-prone, and a performance bottleneck. Modern Java is working to replace reflection with standardized options, including MethodHandle and VarHandle. Like reflection, these classes give you the ability to access…
It’s said we spend a third of our lives sleeping, so it makes sense to spend good money on a mattress. Likewise, if you spend most of your workday with a mouse in hand, you might as well spend good money on a well-designed mouse for comfort’s sake. And if you do that, you owe…
Microsoft has donated its Mono Project, which has provided a .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems, to the WineHQ organization, according to bulletin publicized August 27. WineHQ provides a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Posix-compliant platforms such as Linux, macOS, and BSD. The organization will take over as stewards…
Quantum-resistant cryptography has become an increasingly urgent topic as the threat posed by quantum computing continues to grow. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released the first set of finalized algorithms designed to withstand quantum computer attacks. As a result, companies are hastening their transition to quantum-resistant systems. What is a…
As organizations of all sizes and sectors race to develop, deploy or buy AI and LLM-based products and services, what are the things they should be thinking about from a regulatory perspective? And if you’re a software developer, what do you need to know? The regulatory approaches of the EU and US have, between them,…
