In today’s fast-paced tech environment, maintaining multiple platforms—a web app, an Android app, and an iOS app—is an ambitious and resource-intensive endeavor. For our team, a small group focused almost exclusively on web development, this challenge became increasingly clear. With…

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized many industries, and software development is no exception. With the advent of AI tools capable of generating code, developers now have powerful assistants to tackle repetitive or time-intensive tasks. To explore the capabilities and limitations of…

In today’s software development world, microservices have become a popular architectural style, offering a modular approach to building scalable and flexible applications. Microsoft Azure provides a powerful platform for hosting microservices, making it easier to deploy, manage, and monitor distributed…

React hooks revolutionized how developers write functional components. Among these, useState and useEffect are the most commonly used hooks. They empower developers to manage state and side effects efficiently within functional components, replacing the need for class-based components in many…

Generative AI has been all the rage since the introduction of ChatGPT at the end of 2022. While ChatGPT wasn’t the first generative AI nor even the only concept for AI, it was the first to be widely publicized and…

Here’s a basic tutorial for creating a React app that queries the Alpha Vantage API to display the last day’s stock price for a given symbol. Please note that you’ll need to sign up for a Alpha Vantage API key…

I had a .NET Web Forms project I was working on, and when running the site locally, I would attempt to navigate to one of the pages, and I kept getting an exception: DataReader.GetFieldType(n) returned null. There weren't any other details or any additional insights to be gained from the stack trace, as it ended literally right at the function I was calling where the exception was being thrown rather than giving any further info as to what system or library calls were being made inside that function. After doing some research and experimentation, there were a few key things I needed to do in order to fix this error.

Introduction A REST API (sometimes also called a “web API” or just “API”) is a web standard for creating API (Application Programming Interface) services. REST APIs allow communication between different software systems and enable the transfer of data over HTTP…

Introduction I have worked on a couple different teams that were moving from .NET Web Forms to React to keep up with the latest changes in web technology. While I’ve spent much more time in React than in Web Forms,…

I ran into an interesting problem while converting a React app from JavaScript to TypeScript when I ran into some code using array notation to access object fields. The project I was working on had an object defined as follows.…