Articles in the Latest Issue:

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  DON’T PANIC

  By: Mike Yeager (EPS Software Corp. dba CODE)

  Channeling Douglas Adams' "DON'T PANIC," Mike argues for a rational, grounded approach to AI adoption—cutting through clickbait hysteria to focus on practical applications. AI is transforming work but remains limited and imperfect; human contributions aren't obsolete, and progress is best met with cautious optimism.

  • Editorials
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  AI-Assisted Development with Gemini

  By: Sahil Malik

  Sahil demonstrates how AI tools like Gemini CLI are transforming software development workflows—dramatically boosting productivity across scaffolding, debugging, UI design, and documentation. Using a JWT decoder app as a hands-on example, he shows how AI delivers professional-grade results in a fraction of the time, and why he believes AI will redefine rather than eliminate software engineering roles.

  • AI
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  Hands-on MCP: Building Servers and Clients with Python

  By: Wei-Meng Lee

  Wei-Meng builds MCP servers and clients from scratch using Python—covering Anthropic's ready-made Filesystem and Memory servers, two custom servers for live weather and public holiday lookups, and a fully functional MCP client that uses a local Ollama model to intelligently route natural language queries to the right tool.

  • AI
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  Designing Signal-First Form State (Without Recreating Reactive Forms)

  By: Sonu Kapoor

  Sonu Kapoor demonstrates how Angular's signal-based architecture simplifies form design by shifting focus from event orchestration to state modeling. Signals streamline validation, cross-field dependencies, and async logic—offering a cleaner, more maintainable approach to forms in modern Angular apps.

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  Building a Distributed Application Using .NET Aspire and Deploying it to Azure

  By: Joydip Kanjilal

  Joydip Kanjilal walks through building and deploying a cloud-native distributed application using .NET Aspire—covering orchestration, service discovery, observability, and Azure deployment. Using a shopping cart microservice as a practical example, Joydip demonstrates how .NET Aspire's code-first approach simplifies microservices development with Visual Studio, EF Core, and the Azure Developer CLI.

  • .NET Aspire
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  Q-Day: Is Your Data Safe?

  By: Alexander Pirker

  Alex examines the urgent threat quantum computing poses to RSA, elliptic curve, and symmetric encryption—and why the clock is already ticking. Using Shor's and Grover's algorithms as a framework, the article makes the case for transitioning to quantum-resistant cryptography before Q-Day renders both current and historical encrypted data vulnerable.

  • Quantum Computing
  • Security
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  The .NET AI Stack

  By: Mike Yeager (EPS Software Corp. dba CODE)

  Mike Yeager traces the evolution of .NET AI development—from early generative AI experiments through Semantic Kernel to the new Agent Framework (Microsoft.Agents.AI). With hands-on code examples, the article demonstrates how Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Agent Framework simplify agent integration, tool use, and workflows, making them the go-to stack for building flexible, future-proof AI applications in .NET.

  • .NET Aspire
  • Semantic Kernel

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