Many programmers are unaware that there is a perfectly good PWM driver that will let you do just about anything you want to, without having to resort to any clever programming.

Inheritance is a great idea, but it is a powerful technique that can be misused. C# provides the tools to keep inheritance under control or to turn it off completely.

There's a new scheme for paying university-aged students to become involved in open-source software development. It comes from the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences  in cooperation with openEuler. Summer 2021 is its second program and it is recruiting both open source projects and students over 18 years old.

Red Hat has launched Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift-based development environment that aims to make it easier to create Kubernetes-based applications using familiar tools.

The MariaDB Corp team has updated SkySQL, its version of MariaDB as a fully managed database-as-a-service. The updated version comes with expanded support for Amazon Web Services.

Visual Studio Code 1.56 has been released with improvements including the ability to manage mounted volumes inside Docker containers. The release also handles clickable events better in the Workbench.

Although version 4.2 is considered a minor update, it still packs a host of features focused mainly on productivity, including more advanced support for GitHub pull requests.

Visual Basic support in .NET 5 has been updated, and Visual Basic 16.9 is now supported, along with the ability to use Windows Forms. Microsoft is still firm in its stance that the Visual Basic  language won't get new language features, but Microsoft is definitely investing in VB. 

Robots small enough to operate in swarms are nothing new, but BOBbot is bigger than most and has a secret in its body -magnets.

If you've ever floundered while trying to do something on Git, help is on hand. First Aid Git provides a quick way to search through the most common git-related issues.

The 2021 Microsoft Build Digital Experience takes place from May 25th to 27th. Billed as "A fan fest. A code fest. An intro-to-tech fest" it is free of charge and open to developers of all skill levels, students, and developer decision makers – anyone who uses or wants to learn the latest technologies.

The Eclipse IDE has been updated for the first time this year. The new version concentrates on improvements to the Java support, with only minor improvements for other languages.

Microsoft has announced the preview of the Azure Web PubSub service, a way to build real-time web applications with WebSockets.