Best SSDs of 2022: Give Your Rig Some Love

This post includes the best internal solid-state drives (SSDs) I’ve reviewed that are relevant and available to purchase. Migrating your computer from a hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD) or from a SATA SSD to an NVMe is the most gratifying upgrade. So, getting the correct drive is naturally […]

C++ overtakes Java in language popularity index

Jean J. Sanders

C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language popularity index for the first time ever, dating back to 2001. Java slipped to a new low in the latest edition of the index. The December 2002 Tiobe Programming Community Index has C++, ranked third, surpassing Java, ranked fourth. It is […]

Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits

Jean J. Sanders

Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality. IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023, leading to the expectation that 1,000 qubits with today’s […]

How to use EF Core query types in ASP.NET Core 7

Jean J. Sanders

Entity Framework Core (EF Core for short) is a popular ORM (object-relational mapper) from Microsoft that allow you to perform CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete) without having to know how the data is persisted in the underlying database. When working with ORMs, we often leverage models that are […]