VIDEO: Thunderbird Pro and Thundermail!
It’s been just over two months (!) since we first announced our upcoming Thunderbird Pro suite and Thundermail email service. We thought it would be a great idea to bring in Chris Aquino, a Software Engineer on our Services team, to chat about these ...
JavaScript promises: 4 gotchas and how to avoid them
I’ve previously covered the basics of JavaScript promises and how to use the async/await keywords to simplify your existing asynchronous code. This article is a more advanced look at JavaScript promises. We’ll explore four common ways promises tri...
New to Rust? Don’t make these common mistakes
When you start learning a programming language, you will inevitably experience some frustration along with the fun. Some of that frustration comes with learning anything new and complicated, and some is unnecessary—self-inflicted, even! When learnin...
Naming is easy! A guide for developers
There is an old joke in programming circles: There are two hard things in programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. The first is truly hard, the third is the joke, but the second one? That one baffles me. Naming thing...
“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians
London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its “AI-powered” app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said ...
Kotlin cozies up to Spring Framework
JetBrains is deepening its collaboration with the Spring platform team, with the goal of making the Kotlin language a top choice for professional server-side work. The JetBrains-Spring partnership, announced May 22, is intended to make Kotlin a more ...
C# 14 introduces file-based apps
Taking a lesson from scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript, Microsoft has introduced a file-based apps capability for the C# language, which is intended to streamline C# development. Introduced in .NET 10 Preview 4, the new feature allows ...
