Jason Monden

Dec 2, 2023 | codeproject.com | David Eastman |Loraine Lawson |Saif Gunja |Jason Monden

A question that appeared in my last post within a set of interview topics was: “Why is regex bad at parsing HTML?” So, what methods should one use to parse HTML? Developers use regular expressions (regex) to extract information from text strings; for example, a well-formed regex can grab a valid email address from within a form response. HTML is a presentation format that helps a web browser create a web page from text strings and images.

Nov 28, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Jason Monden |Andrew Sellers |Darryl Taft |Joe Fay

AI is powerful, but its innate complexity can give potential business users pause. For many organizations wanting to derive value from AI quickly, managed services that allow them to integrate AI with their applications may be the answer. The good news is that such managed AI services, which mask complexity from the user, are available. Two key things to consider before going this route are:1: What capability does the company want to build (or what process does it want to automate)?

Nov 24, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Agam Shah |Loraine Lawson |Saif Gunja |Jason Monden

Financial firms are injecting a healthy dose of open source software into IT environments as they slowly cut their reliance on proprietary software. The open source adoption has especially picked up in the last three years as companies finish mapping out software dependencies and audit processes to minimize software risk.

Nov 23, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Paul Scanlon |Loraine Lawson |Saif Gunja |Jason Monden

VOXPOP Try our new 5 second poll. It's fast. And it's fun! What news from AWS re:Invent last week will have the most impact on you? Amazon Q, an AI chatbot for explaining how AWS works. Super-fast S3 Express storage. New Graviton 4 processor instances. Emily Freeman leaving AWS. I don't use AWS, so none of this will affect me. We'd love to hear what you think. In this post I’ll be talking about the new @qwikdev/astro integration.

Nov 23, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Steven Vaughan-Nichols |Loraine Lawson |Saif Gunja |Jason Monden

Like many people who play at programming, and more importantly, the ones who actually do it for a living, I use a Linux desktop. Now, well, I can’t do any better than to quote from Bluefin‘s creator, Jorge Casto, a top open source and Linux community manager, “Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything, but we’re too lazy to maintain anything.