Recently I received a letter that said I was recognized and awarded in the “Developer Technologies” category; this is not my first nomination, but every nomination is a pleasure and an honor to receive this award! Today I want to talk about what this means to me and this award. …

On February 24, 2019, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced HoloLens 2. On June 5, 2023, at WWDC at Apple Park in Cupertino, Apple announced the Vision Pro. Microsoft shows how HoloLens 2 can be used by doctors, engineers, and artists: Apple shows the use of Vision Pro at home and in the office: Two videos, which reveal the capabilities of each of the products. It is interesting to pay attention to the accents.

The launch of ChatGPT was a bombshell. When I worked with this service for the first time, I experienced emotions that I think were similar to the feelings of the first phone users or the first plane passengers — Is this possible now?! …

In mid-March Timur Dorofeev called me and asked to help to create a chatbot for registrating and processing applications for the charity raffle tickets. The raffle was initiated for fundraising to support Ukrainian defenders. Generally the task was not so difficult from the technical side, however, quite interesting. …

When reading the announcements of the release of new frameworks, programming languages ​​and new services, our focus is the companies and development teams that work directly on their products. At the same time, we often underestimate the contribution the communities make to modern technologies’ development. …

Last week I received an email from Microsoft. I received MVP award, one more time. This is my fifth award, and this is an anniversary for me, so it is good time to sum up the last years. Not many details, briefly. Year 2017 I received my first award in 2017. At…

Some time ago I wrote a publication about .NET Logging Provider for Telegram — a simple library that allows writing logs to Telegram. Now I want to tell about some improvements which I made. I want to make this library more open and flexible. …

A long time ago, I needed to add a sitemap for my blog. It was a very simple task. But after some time I needed to add a sitemap for another site and one more site, and again for another site. So I decide to move this logic into the library which will provide a simple and straightforward solution for creating sitemaps. Usage example Below is an example of basic usage: Below is a more comprehensive example that demonstrates how to create many sitemaps and how to add them to a sitemap index file in a unit-testable fashion.