July 2025 – My Point of View

Git Branching Strategies

In essence, a Git branch is a movable pointer to a specific commit in the repository’s history. When you create a new branch, you’re creating a new line of development that diverges from the main line. This allows you to make changes without directly affecting the stable codebase.

Let’s understand how this works. I assume you have Git installed and have basic working knowledge of Git.

Natural Language AI-Powered Smart UI

Looking for real-world AI examples is a challenge and part of this challenge comes from Generative AI (GenAI) news dominating the media. It feels like every AI demo involves chatting with GenAI to produce content. The obligatory chat completion demo has started to become the to-do list of AI demo apps, and, to make matters worse, it’s selling AI short. GenAIs rely on large language models (LLMs), which are the brain behind natural language processing tasks. In this article, I’ll explore the opportunities presented by LLMs using a real-world research-and-development experiment. This experiment is part of on-going research into AI-enabled user interface components (aka .NET Smart Components) by Progress Software and Microsoft.