Category: Software Engineering

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When to use Django vs Flask

Companies that use Flask and Django Some popular sites/companies that use Flask and Django are: : https://djangostars.com/blog/10-popular-sites-made-on-django/: https://careerkarma.com/blog/companies-that-use-flask/: https://www.mygreatlearning.com/blog/flask-vs-django/: https://github.com/rochacbruno/flask-powered

ChatGPT: Software Skills for Mechatronics Engineers

I recently asked a LLM: “What are pieces of software or programming languages one should learn to improve mechatronics skillset?” The response (unedited): Some good software or coding languages for someone to learn to get better at mechatronics are:

When to build a component library (and when not to)

One of the common questions that React developers face is whether they should build a component library for their applications or not. A component library is a collection of reusable UI elements that can be shared across different projects and teams. Building a component library can have many benefits, such as: However, building a component…
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Future of Application Development (as Forecasted by Bing’s Chat-GPT model)

This blog was is intended as a bit of an experiment. I gave Bing’s built-in interface a prompt: “what is the future of application development? how, if at all, will humans be involved in the loop?“ One interesting feature is that the Bing interface allows the user to “regenerate” a draft using the same prompt.…
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Chat GPT Impact, Releases, Pricing

Chat GPT is a family of natural language processing models that can generate coherent and fluent text from a given prompt or context. Chat GPT has had a significant impact on the AI/ML industry, especially for startups, in several ways. Some of the impacts are: Some new startups gaining traction that use ChatGPT or other…
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What are Large Language Models (LLMs)? What are they used for?

Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence system that can process and generate natural language texts. They are trained on massive amounts of text data, such as books, articles, social media posts, and web pages, and learn to capture the patterns and structures of natural language. Some of the main types of…
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Microsoft Playwright Overview

Microsoft Playwright is a framework for web testing and automation that allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. It is developed by Microsoft and supports programming languages like Java, Python, C#, and Node.js. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is evergreen, capable, reliable and fast. Some of the pros…
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Test Driven Development for React Applications and overview of testing frameworks

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that involves writing automated tests before writing the actual code. The idea is to specify the expected behavior and functionality of the code, and then write the code that passes the tests. This way, the code is more reliable, maintainable, and easier to refactor. But how can…
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Test Driven Development: A Guide for Software Engineers

Test driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: write a failing test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produce the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactor the new code to acceptable standards. In this…
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