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With all the summer distractions, it's hard to keep focused on the news feeds. So, let I Programmer do it for you and simply consult our weekly digest of news, book reviews and articles to keep you up to speed. This one covers July 17 - 23. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
This Week's Book Reviews
Hijacking Chromecast Is Easy Wednesday 23 July Chromecast, Google's streaming video USB stick, has a really clever way of allowing users to set it up. The trouble is that it might just be too clever. It turns out that what is easy for users to set up is also easy to hijack. Wire The Programmer To Prevent Buggy Code Wednesday 23 July It's impossible to eliminate all coding errors, but it is certainly worth taking measures to reduce their frequency. A novel approach looks at using psycho-physiological measures. Microsoft Plans To Merge Windows Systems - Again! Wednesday 23 July Microsoft seems to be suffering from a strange case of re-inventing things that it once knew were essential. This time it is the unification of Windows into one operating system. DotPeek 1.2 Tuesday 22 July JetBrains has released the next version of dotPeek, its free .NET decompiler and assembly browser. Cumberbatch As Turing - Trailers Released Tuesday 22 July Two official trailers have been released for "The Imitation Game", the biopic in which the role of Alan Turing is depicted by Benedict Cumberbatch. Oracle Big Data SQL Monday 21 July A unified query tool that you can use to ask questions across mixed SQL, Hadoop and NoSQL data sources has been released by Oracle. Self Assessment For Programmers Monday 21 July A useful proficiency matrix has been produced that could be used to track your own progress when learning to program or to advertise your skillset to prospective employers. The Next Version Of PHP And The Status Of PHPng Monday 21 July If the current version of PHP is 5.x, what should the next version be called? Obviously it should be 6.x. Why then is there a proposal that it should be 7.x? And as PHPng gets ever faster, is it PHP 5.7, PHP 6.0 PHP 7.0 or even PHP 8.0? Smart Cat Feeder Uses Facial Recognition Sunday 20 July An Indiegogo campaign for a smart cat feeder that can monitor your cat's health by tracking appetite and weight change has already met its target, demonstrating a new role for AI in the home. Finding Beautiful Walking Routes Saturday 19 July Yahoo researchers are working on an alternative approach to providing directions to pedestrians. Instead of simply the shortest route, they want to suggest routes that are both short and pleasant. Jibo The Friendly Robot Could Be Your Next Platform Friday 18 July We keep waiting for the robot revolution - no not that robot revolution, the one where robots help around the home. Now an MIT Media Lab roboticist has gone to the crowd for some funds to build Jibo, the friendly and hopefully helpful robot. Chrome 36 Out Chrome 37 In Beta Friday 18 July Chrome 36 has security fixes, a few improvements for all users and a couple of developer features. Chrome 37 is now in beta. What does it have to offer? Microsoft Discontinues Android, Asha and S40 Friday 18 July As well as the sad news of large scale layoffs at Microsoft, there are also some phone casualties. Mozjpeg 2 Makes Pictures Smaller Thursday 17 July Do we need a new image format? Mozilla thinks not and getting better performance is all a matter of using what we have better. Kinect SDK 2 Dumps Kinect V1 Thursday 17 July It is both a sad and a happy day. The new Kinect V2 is being shipped to eager programmers and SDK 2 is available for download. But the lack of any backward compatibility in SDK 2 is the end of the line for the original Kinect V1. Keeping Track of Computer Science Courses Thursday 17 July In the last three years we've witnessed an explosion. From an initial three free online computer science courses there are now over a hundred to choose from and keeping up with them all is an increasingly difficult juggling task. Luckily there are websites to help. Clive Sinclair And The Small Home Computer Revolution Tuesday 22 July Not every computer innovation originated in the United States. Clive Sinclair was a designer who could make one transistor do the work of two or more. He built low cost and futuristic electronics by doing things different.
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