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If you need to know what's important for the developer, you can rely on I Programmer to sift through all the news and uncover the most relevant stories. Then we put it together with our book review and articles in a weekly digest.
March 20 - 26, 2014
This Week's Book Reviews
More Ties Than We Thought Or Ties Of The Matrix Wednesday 26 March The Matrix Reloaded started something when "The Merovingian" wore a number of very flashy ties. The problem was that we thought we knew how many ways you can tie a tie, but the enumeration didn't include the Matrix way of doing it. Now we know how many knots there are and it's all thanks to language theory. Facebook Buys Oculus VR Wednesday 26 March Oculus VR, which has a virtual reality headset under development, has been snapped up by Facebook in a deal valued at $2 billion. What does this mean for the future of VR? New Relic's Analytics APIs Wednesday 26 March A new real-time analytics platform,Insights, which collects application data and customer intelligence has been released as a beta by New Relic. Brendan Eich New CEO Of Mozilla Tuesday 25 March Brendan Eich, the inventor of JavaScript and one of the co-founders of Mozilla has been named as its new Chief Executive Officer. Dual Screen Android App Challenge Tuesday 25 March There's $100K in prize money for Android apps that display different content on an Android phone and on a connected display such as an HDTV. Computer Science Enrollments On The Up Tuesday 25 March Enrollment for Computer Science bachelor's degree programs in the U.S. jumped by over twenty percent last year. Is the message that a CS degree leads to a rewarding career getting through? MozDef - Mozilla's Self Defence Kit Monday 24 March Mozilla is working on a defense platform to automate the handling of security incidents, and to enable the use of incident handlers. Why not create tools for defence - the attackers have plenty!? Google Refuses DARPA Money But Still In Competition Monday 24 March When Google bought the winner of the DARPA Robot Challenge the rumour was that it would withdraw the robot from further competition rather than accept money for the project from the military. Now we seem to have a compromise solution. Python 3.4 Is Now Available With New Features Monday 24 March Python 3.4 doesn't have any new syntax features but it does have new and improved library modules, including one for a standard implementation of enumeration types. Robot TED Talk - The New Turing Test? Sunday 23 March As if we didn't have enough of a distraction in the form of the Loebner prize, the Turing Test turned into a circus. Now we have AI Xprize for a robot that can give a TED talk that gets a standing ovation... Larry Page - Where Is Google And Where Is It Going? Saturday 22 March An "off-the-program" conversation at lat week's TED 2014 Conference in Vancouver between Charlie Rose and Larry Page reveals some of what is on the mind of Google's Founder and CEO. Facebook Introduces Hack, A Better PHP Friday 21 March Facebook is almost certainly the biggest site running on PHP and now it has introduced its own version of the language and appropriately enough it's called Hack. DirectX 12 The Details - Or Not Friday 21 March As promised Microsoft explained what they had planed for DirectX 12 at this years GDC but what does it all mean for the average DirectX programmer? Mozilla Enhances Browser-Based Gaming Friday 21 March Mozilla has partnered with Unity Technologies and with Epic Games in order to provide games devs with facilities for delivering superior performance and near-native speeds in Firefox. Google Invites Vancouver To Paint the Sky Thursday 20 March The Vancouver waterfront has a new attraction - an interactive crowd-controlled visual artwork on a textile sculpture of monumental scale created for TED's 30th anniversary. UK Government Backs Alan Turing Institute For Big Data Thursday 20 March The UK Government appears to be embracing Big Data and is funding a new Data Science Institute that will be named in honor of Alan Turing. Why The Internet Of Things Has A Problem Thursday 20 March The Internet of Things is an exciting and sometimes worrying idea, but the problem isn't the technology for making it all happen. There's just so much of it... in fact that really is the problem. Not so complex numbers in C# Tuesday 25 March Did you know that .NET supports complex numbers? The Complex struct is easy to use and just needs a little extra publicity so that we all remember it's there! To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter. To keep up with the latest on I Programmer, install the I Programmer Toolbar or subscribe to our RSS Feeds. There is one for Full Contents, another for News and also one for Books with details of reviews and daily additions to Book Watch. You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or LinkedIn.
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