I have to admit, I’ve never been curious enough to try them: those mobile-phone barcodes that look like square inkblots. They call to you from the corners of newspaper advertisements, packaging, and ...

Code First frees you up from the chore of creating databases for your project. Here's a primer on how to do it. Entity Framework has been the latest buzzword in the Microsoft Development circle since ...

Microsoft has released the March 2020 update for its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) open-source code editor for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux systems with bug fixes, accessibility improvements, better ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

Few distinctions in computer technology are as clear as the one between hardware and software. But it was not always so. The term software first appeared in 1958, more than 10 years after the ...