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September 22 - 28, 2016
Book Review of the Week
Rated 4.5 out of 5 by Kay Ewbank who concluded:
I liked this book; it gives a good introduction to the Hadoop ecosystem, concentrating on the analysis side and mainly ignoring the day-to-day administration.The descriptions are good, not too long-winded. The authors give pointers to places where you can read more, so you don't miss out where they give an overview rather than a detailed explanation. The Python examples are good, and used well to explain ideas. Perhaps the most useful part of the book is the final chapter where they show how to do an entire analytic workflow from start to finish. Well worth a read.
News
GitHub Octoverse Reveals The State Of Open Source Wednesday 28 September
Ahead of its Universe conference this month, GitHub published a fascinating annual report. The headline that attracted most attention outlets is that Microsoft is the organization with the most open source contributors. Here we look at what else it tells us.
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Mozilla Removes Firefox OS Code From Gecko Wednesday 28 September
Firefox OS is a lesson in over-reaching. Mozilla thought that open source, real open source not the approximation that Google serves up with Android, could take over the mobile world. It didn't and the slow train-wreck continues.
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More Professional Data Science Training Tuesday 27 September
MIT Professional Education is launching a new online Data Science course next week. This adds to the existing range of options available to those in the data science field who want a credential that can help further their careers.
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Throw A Paper Plane Around The World And Catch One! Saturday 24 September
Is this VR, AR or something else? The Google blog explaining the idea doesn't seem clear on the matter either. It all starts with a simple thought, "What if you could throw a paper plane from one screen to another?"
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The Weekly Top 10: PHP Web Development Resources Friday 23 September
PHP is the topic of this week's round up of blog posts. We have a cheat sheat for upgrading from 5.x to PHP 7, a couple of reports of the improved performance you can expect from doing so and multiple framework comparisons. In short loads to digest for the PHP developer.
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Get Up To Speed With iOS 10 with Udemy Thursday 22 September
iPhone 7 is now available bring with it iOS 10, so if you haven't already done so, learning it is a must. Udemy has three courses that will help you whether you're just starting on your freelance journey or you're a seasoned app developer.
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Take A Deep Dive Into Development Thursday 22 September
There are still places available for SDD Deep Dive 2016, a set of 3-day workshops taking place concurrently in London from November to . Book your place before midnight tomorrow to save £200.
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The Core
How Will AI Transform Life By 2030? Initial Report Monday 26 September
The panel of experts tackling "The One-Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence" attempts to address this question in an in-depth report that reviews the advancements and benefits as well as challenges that this technology heralds.
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Javascript Data Structures - a collection object Thursday 22 September
Javascript has some good basic facilities for implementing data structures without too much effort. In this article the data structure under review is the collection, including an enumerator.
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