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Level up your Java coding with AI tools

AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and IntelliJ IDEA are changing how Java developers code, debug, and modernize applications. From automating boilerplate to guiding framework upgrades, these tools ...
Communications of the ACM

Yourdon Had a Point

Doug Meil is a software architect in healthcare data management and analytics, and an ACM Senior Member. He also founded the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
NPR

Code Switch

May 2, 2026 • Motherhood in the U.S. is revered. Actual mothers? Not so much. So where's a bedraggled mom to turn when she feels overworked, overwhelmed, and underappreciated? Turns out, momfluencers ...
BBC

What is Morse code?

Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!
NPR

Studio 2

April 24, 2026 Studio 2 Extra: Philly author Emma Copley Eisenberg A collection of short stories called “Fat Swim” by Philly author Emma Copley Eisenberg is slated for release on April 28th. In it, ...