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Weekly Newsletter (22 Mar 2021)


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Weekly Poll Results

When you try tutorials and how-to's for products written by the vendor, they:

Survey period: 15 Mar 2021 to 22 Mar 2021

Option	Votes	%
Generally work without issues	294	31.55
Mostly work with occasional issues	298	31.97
Sometimes work if I Google enough workarounds	130	13.95
Sometimes work, sometimes just don't	138	14.81
Rarely work	21	2.25
Usually just don't work	18	1.93
I don't try tutorials for products written by the company that makes the product.	69	7.40
Total	932	100%

This week's survey: What language would you recommend for a High School student who's never coded before?

Latest Additions

New articles added

Algorithms & Recipes

Numerical Solutions to Vibrations of Bars

(2 votes) by Kenneth Haugland (updated 2 days ago)

Numerically solves the problem of vibrations on bars with various boundary conditions using Jenkins-Traub algorithm

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Deep Learning for Fashion Classification

(3 votes) by Abdulkader Helwan (updated 6 days ago)

In this series of articles, we’ll showcase an AI-powered deep learning system that can revolutionize the fashion design industry by helping us better understand customers’ needs.

Fine-tuning VGG16 to Classify Clothing

(2 votes) by Abdulkader Helwan (updated 4 days ago)

In this article we show you how to train VGG19 to recognize what people are wearing.

Running AI Fashion Classification on Real Data

(2 votes) by Abdulkader Helwan (updated 3 days ago)

In this article we evaluate VGG19 using real images taken by a phone camera.

Preparing Data for AI Fashion Classification

(2 votes) by Abdulkader Helwan (updated 5 days ago)

In this article we’ll show you how to use transfer learning to fine-tune the VGG19 model to classify fashion clothing categories.

Generate New Fashion Designs with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

(1 votes) by Abdulkader Helwan (updated 2 days ago)

In this article we show you how to build a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for fashion design generation.

ASP.NET

A Blazor Inline Dialog Control

(2 votes) by Shaun C Curtis (updated 4 days ago)

A Blazor inline dialog control to lock all page controls except those within the form.

Preventing CSRF Attacks using ASP.NET Core, JavaScript and Angular

(0 votes) by Mohammad Elsheimy (updated 11 hours ago)

This article demonstrates Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks and how to prevent them in ASP.NET Core, JavaScript and Angular.

A Blazor Validation Control

(0 votes) by Shaun C Curtis (updated 5 days ago)

A Blazor validation control to manage and monitor validation state in a form.

A Blazor Edit Form State Control

(0 votes) by Shaun C Curtis (updated 5 days ago)

A Blazor control to manage and monitor edit state in a form

C#

High-Performance Pagination REST API Query Builder

(2 votes) by Syed Hasan Hyder (updated 5 days ago)

Pagination implemented over REST API

Database

Reducing Complexity using Entity Framework Core Owned Types

(1 votes) by Mohammad Elsheimy (updated 11 hours ago)

EF Core’s owned types allow you to group fields, that you do not want to appear as a reference, in a separate type.

Miscellaneous

Definitive Guide to WPF Colors, Color Spaces, Color Pickers and Creating Your Own Colors for Mere Mortals

(10 votes) by Peter Huber SG (updated 6 days ago)

Covers in depth all WPF color related issues from Color Models, ColorPickers, Colors to helpful methods for mixing colors and making them brighter and darker.

Tools and IDE

Copy-Cutter: Code 'Snippet' Manager for Windows

(3 votes) by Christ Kennedy (updated 4 days ago)

A tool to help quickly generate 'snippets' of code in any Windows based IDE

Articles updated

.NET Framework

PVS.MediaPlayer - Audio and Video Player Library

(180 votes) by Peter Vegter (updated 6 days ago)

Microsoft Media Foundation based easy-to-use library with many added features

CompactExifLib: Access to EXIF Tags in JPEG Files

(30 votes) by Hans-Peter Kalb (updated 6 days ago)

C# library for reading and writing EXIF tags in JPEG image files

C / C++ Language

A Static Analysis Tool for C++

(17 votes) by Greg Utas (updated 6 days ago)

Automating Scott Meyers' recommendations, cleaning up #include directives, and analyzing code dependencies

oneMD: A Molecular Dynamics Simulator in Modern C++ and SYCL

(2 votes) by Allister Beharry (updated 6 days ago)

oneMD is a molecular dynamics simulator coded in C++ 17 designed to take advantage of hardware data parallelism across a diverse set of devices and architectures using Intel's oneAPI framework and SYCL -- the successor to the OpenCL standard for parallel processing

Design and Architecture

Fast Conversions between tightly packed Structures and Arrays

(10 votes) by Visual Herbert (updated 6 days ago)

Interpreting tightly packed structures as 1-dimensional arrays and vice-versa.

Dialogs and Windows

MultiPaneCtrl - Create Hierarchically Nested Areas

(143 votes) by Baradzenka Aleh (updated 5 days ago)

A control that allows you to create multiple tabbed regions that can be dragged to another location with the mouse.

Internet / Network

Abstracting TCP Communications, and Adding What Should Be the New Basics

(80 votes) by pdoxtader (updated yesterday)

AbstractTcpLib

Libraries

C++ Virtual-Array Implementation That Is Backed By The Combined Video Memory Of User-System

(15 votes) by tugrulGtx (updated 6 days ago)

Header-only C++ tool that supports basic array-like usage pattern and uses multiple graphics cards in system as storage with LRU caching.

NoSQL

Mongo DB Tutorial and Mapping of SQL and Mongo DB Query

(62 votes) by VijayRana (updated 3 days ago)

A tutorial for MongoDB Tutorial

OpenGL

More about OpenGL with C/C++ and C# on ReactOS (or Windows)

(4 votes) by Steffen Ploetz (updated 6 days ago)

Second step to a serious looking OpenGL application on plain old Win32 API for ReactOS (and also for Windows or WINE)

Programming Languages

VRCalc++ Object Oriented Scripting Language :: Vincent Radio {Adrix.NT}

(23 votes) by Vincent Radio (updated 12 hours ago)

VRCalc++ Engine is embeddable in any Delphi Application using Dynamic Packages

Programming Tips

Software Development as a Research in Domain of Value

(10 votes) by Łukasz Bownik (updated 5 days ago)

The article discusses the similarity between software development and applied research and draws conclusions from it.

Splitter Windows

SplitterCtrl - A control for the partition of some window by several parts

(20 votes) by Baradzenka Aleh (updated 5 days ago)

In this article, you will learn about a control that is necessary for the partition of the dialog, main or child window of your program by several parts.

Tabs & Property Pages

TabCtrl - Adjustable Control with Zooming and Scrolling Tabs

(129 votes) by Baradzenka Aleh (updated 5 days ago)

In this article, you will learn about an adjustable control that has zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more.

OutlookTabCtrl - Another Kind of Tab

(46 votes) by Baradzenka Aleh (updated 5 days ago)

This control is another kind of tab. Tabs are displayed as horizontal stripes and can be collapsed into buttons. Each tab is assigned its own window, which is shown when you click on the tab.

Testing and QA

How WireMock.NET Can Help in Doing Integration Testing of a .NET Core Application

(3 votes) by Daan Acohen (updated 2 days ago)

Learn how to do integration testing while mocking external dependencies of your .NET Core application

New Tips and Tricks added

.NET Framework

Cheat Engine AutoAssembler/Assembler/Disassembler ported to C#

(6 votes) by UberFoX (updated 4 days ago)

C# port of the original Pascal code for Cheat Engines AutoAssembler/Assembler/Disassembler

Database

Top 8 New SQL Features of MySQL 8

(1 votes) by Yuri Danilov (updated 5 days ago)

An overview of Top 8 new SQL features of MySQL 8

Querying CSV in a Like SQL Way from VBA [Microsoft Excel and Access]

(1 votes) by W. García (updated 4 days ago)

Fully VBA “Power Query” alternative for work with CSV files

Tips and Tricks updated

ASP.NET

Freehand Drawing using Google Map and Spatial Search

(4 votes) by Pablo A Martinez (updated 5 days ago)

How to use Google map and Spatial search to do freehand drawing

C / C++ Language

Not-So-Common C Syntax/Extension to the Rescue (or Just for Fun)

(9 votes) by cassert24 (updated 6 days ago)

C syntax/extensions that I somehow stumbled upon

New Technical Blogs added

Algorithms & Recipes

Car-Parrinello Quantum Molecular Dynamics

(2 votes) by aroman (updated 4 days ago)

Various simple Computational Physics topics handled in Python

Variational Quantum Monte Carlo

(0 votes) by aroman (updated 4 days ago)

Variational Quantum Monte Carlo for a molecule, using Fokker-Planck/Langevin approach

Client side scripting

Epidemic - Simple Model of How a Disease Can Spread into a Population

(0 votes) by aroman (updated 3 days ago)

In this post, you will see a very simple model of how a disease can spread into a population. You can get the code, be able to adjust the parameters and watch different outcomes.

DevOps & Installation

Migrating your Old TFVC Repository to Git with Full History in Azure DevOps

(0 votes) by Arun Endapally (updated 5 days ago)

How to migrate your old repositories in TFVC to Git with full history

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