Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with methods for delivering information-stealing malware to the victims’ systems. The malicious extensions come posing as a harmless “premium dark theme” and an AI-powered coding assistant, but both – […]
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Last winter, my city Richmond VA suffered water distribution outages for days after a blizzard. Not because of one big failure, but because backup pumps failed, sensors misread, alerts got buried, and then another pump died during recovery. The whole city ended up under a boil‑water advisory. Sound familiar? Replace “water pumps” with “microservices” and […]
News For years, PhpStorm has been the go-to IDE for PHP developers – powerful and deeply integrated with the language. But there was one thing many kept asking for: Laravel support out of the box. It should come with built-in— Amdadul Haq (@amdad121) July 30, 2025 Starting with PhpStorm 2025.3, Laravel support is now built in. From the moment you open your project, everything just works – no plugins, no configuration, no extra steps. Discover the story behind this update from PhpStorm Team Lead Roman Pronskiy, PhpStorm Software Developer Maria Filippova, JetBrains Product Lead Artemy Pestretsov, Laravel Idea plugin creator…
The next wave of user interfaces demands a complete rethinking of software architecture. For decades, digital products have relied on menus, checkboxes, search bars, and forms. These elements worked, but they were never designed around how people naturally think, speak, or interact. In 2025, clinging to them feels like printing paper maps for directions or […]
Using AI with Angular — 2025 updateThe most challenging thing to get this AI-generated image right was that Gemini wanted to use the old Angular logo, no matter what I did… Biases are hard to overcome!It’s 2025, and AI is almost everywhere at this point. To me, the AI landscape was changing too rapidly to write anything about it before today, because what is the point of writing something if it isn’t true anymore two weeks later?Also, our experience with AI depends on so many variables these days that it can be difficult to know how to use it. For instance, should we use…
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn Docs) is that I can fix things I find wrong. For years we had downloaded Books Online from installs, then we have BOL on a site, but those were mostly updated when a new release came.Now we have MS Learn, and a regularly changing set of docs. If you haven’t taken advantage of these docs for SQL Server, you should. Bookmark: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/?view=sql-server-ver17&redirectedfrom=MSDNI help change those. It’s part of my contribution as a Microsoft MVP, but it’s also something that I enjoy because it makes my life…
IT outages cost companies over $14,000 per minute. IBM Research’s Project ALICE uses multiple AI agents to help engineers find bugs faster and restore systems. Software bugs are expensive. When a critical system goes down, every minute of downtime costs revenue, frustrates customers, and strains engineering teams scrambling to find the problem. The challenge isn’t […]
Terms of Contract Contract Type: Full-time contractor (30-40 hours per week). Initial 3 month contract. Location: Fully remote within the U.S. or Canada About the Role We are seeking a Solutions Architect to help translate business needs into actionable, scalable software solutions across multiple ongoing projects. This role blends technical problem-solving, client communication, and requirements documentation to ensure clarity from concept through delivery. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in both technical and client-facing environments, enjoys writing detailed technical requirements, and has a proven ability to help manage development teams. The ideal candidate will be able to balance…
Today, the Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation with three founding projects: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose agent framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md standard. The foundation brings together the companies building the infrastructure layer for agents: Anthropic, Block, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg, alongside key tooling and platform companies. Docker is joining as a Gold member. From Open Source to Production The timing reflects how quickly the space has matured. A year ago, MCP launched as an open source project from Anthropic, solving a specific problem: how AI systems connect to tools and data. It’s now…
It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw Mike Walsh’s topic for T-SQL Tuesday #193, I was intrigued and inspired – “Notes to yourself from the past and the future.” It has been a year and a half since I went on full time disability due to ALS. I worked for as long as I was able contribute well. It was a sad but necessary reality. This very reality feeds into my notes.Note to my past self, ten years agoDon’t allow others to influence you away from your passion for data excellence and leadership.…