Booleans considered harmful

Booleans are deceptively simple. They look harmless—just true or false, right? What could possibly go wrong? But when you actually use them, they quickly become a minefield.  After years of coding, I have learned to tread very lightly when dealing with this simple...

Why Microsoft is unifying data and AI within Fabric

Microsoft says that the future of AI-based applications lies in unifying data and intelligence, and that new updates to its data and analytics platform, Fabric, are a step in that direction. Announced at the company’s ongoing Build conference, the updates include the...

GitHub unveils coding agent for GitHub Copilot

GitHub has introduced a new coding agent for its GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant. Embedded into GitHub, the agent launches its own development environment with GitHub Actions to implement a task or issue. Introduced May 19, the GitHub Copilot coding...