“Maybe” monad through async/await in C# (No Tasks!)

Generalized async return types — it is a new C#7 feature that allows using not only Task as a return type of async methods but other types (classes or structures) that satisfy some specific requirements: http://amp.gs/rRoD

What’s the Use of Dynamic Analysis When You Have Static Analysis?

In this article, we’ll try to figure out why only one type of analysis, whether static or dynamic, may not be enough for comprehensive software analysis and why it’s preferable to use both: http://amp.gs/rOwD

“The nature of programming errors is such that they don’t disappear if you don’t search for them and don’t pay attention to the code quality”.

How to shoot yourself in the foot in C and C++. Haiku OS Cookbook: http://amp.gs/rrxc

50 Best Sources on Product Management to Read, Listen and Watch.

It will surely take some time to make you a product management guru. This post contains a set of relevant resources about product management for those who prefer to read, listen and watch: http://amp.gs/rrJV

“The projects themselves are tiny too (about 10 files each), so bugs were found only in the largest project of 20 files :D But we did find them, and they do look interesting!”

Almost Perfect Libraries by Electronic Arts: http://amp.gs/ruJ6

• What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 77)
• Everything You Need To Know About CSS Margins
• Accessible CSS Generated Content
• Introduction to Svelte
• Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript, and much more

Frontend Weekly Digest (22-28 July 2019): http://amp.gs/ruoR

.NET — Tools for working with multithreading and asynchrony. Part 2.

“In this part, I will fix on the issues you may encounter in a multi-threaded environment and some of the ways to resolve them”: http://amp.gs/rJY1

Best Copy-Paste Algorithms for C and C++. Haiku OS Cookbook.

This article mostly tells about errors related to thoughtlessness and failed refactoring, rather than to typos. The errors demonstrate how strong the human factor in software development is: http://amp.gs/rJ7y

12.3 million of concurrent WebSockets.

One thing about WebSockets is that you need a lot of resources on the client’s side to generate high enough load for the server to actually eat up all the CPU resources: http://amp.gs/rJwr

PVS-Studio Looked into the Red Dead Redemption’s Bullet.

Why not check the Bullet with PVS-Studio to see what errors static analysis can detect in such a large-scale physics simulation project: http://amp.gs/rKHu

«Reader» monad through async/await in C#.

“In my previous article I described how to achieve the «Maybe» monad behavior using async/await operators. This time I am going to show how to implement another popular design pattern «Reader Monad»”: http://amp.gs/r3lK

How Gantt Charts Simplify and Empower Project Management.

You’ve definitely heard about Gantt charts. At first sight, these diagrams might seem chilling and complicated, however, they are not as mystifying as you may think: http://amp.gs/r3NG

Automatic respiratory organ segmentation.

Manual lung segmentation takes about 10 minutes and it requires a certain skill to get the same high-quality result as with automatic segmentation. Automatic segmentation takes about 15 seconds: http://amp.gs/r2Ul

Human pose estimation on images for iOS.

In this article, the iOS application for inferring human pose is described. According to the performance results it is clearly seen that Apple did a giant leap in the performance of the neural network engine: http://amp.gs/rwt6

Contextual Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations Using Neural Networks.

We are going to describe the recurrent neural network architecture for emotion detection in textual conversations, that participated in SemEval-2019 Task 3 “EmoContext”: http://amp.gs/rXE3

How to Maximize the Value of Product Backlog Grooming?

Backlog grooming is not a magic wand; it’s a comprehensive activity aimed to ensure that all the tasks are always in clear order. Let’s find out how can the grooming process be improved: http://amp.gs/rXot

Python vs. R — Data Science.

While there are a lot of languages like C, C++, Java, Julia, Perl, and Scala, it’s protected to state that Python and R are the harbingers in data science: http://amp.gs/rLCH

Get to Know the PVS-Studio Static Analyzer for Java.

“Many haven’t even heard of the analyzer, and those who had, aren’t quite familiar with all its abilities. So in this article, I’d like to introduce PVS-Studio Java to you, talk about the ways to start it and its abilities”: http://amp.gs/ramH

SCADA visualization for IoT projects.

“We developed super lightweight unofficial Qt library. The library is open source, customizable, and free to use under MIT license. We also share a small set of developed widgets”: http://amp.gs/radn

Winning PHDays 9 The Standoff.

This is an English-language summary of two absolutely outstanding articles written by Vitaliy Malkin from «Informzashita» whose team, True0xA3, became the winners of the prestigious black hat competition: http://amp.gs/ra5A