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If you need to know what's important for the developer, IProgrammer Weekly puts the unmissable bits together in a handy digest together with our coverage of books. This week we also have a Programmer's Puzzle and an Android Programming tutorial about Barriers, the latest and somewhat mysterious addition to the ConstraintLayout. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
November 30 - December 6, 2017
Book Watch This week's additions to our ever-growing archive of newly publshed computer books are:
Book Reviews
Introducing Melvin and Bugsy, characters who figure in a series of challenges from Joe Celko. Sharpen your coding skills with puzzles that will both amuse and torment you. Mozilla v Yahoo Wednesday 06 December Mozilla has responded to a lawsuit from Yahoo Holding and Oath for improper termination of the agreement make Yahoo the default search engine in Firefox by filing a cross complaint for breach of contract. Google has removed Chrome apps from the Chrome Web Store and has made it clear that Progressive Web Apps are what you should move to. There is a lot that is unclear about all of this and, apart from a few small things, it all feels like a marketing exercise. PHP 7.2 With Built-in Libsodium Wednesday 06 December There's a new release of PHP that adds several features, including a new sodium extension making PHP the first programming language to adopt modern cryptography in its standard library. Alexa For Business - The Big Shake Up Tuesday 05 December Having consolidated its dominance of the home consumer market for voices assistants, Amazon is bringing Alexa's capabilities into the enterprise market with Alexa for Business. The Python software Foundation has secured a grant of $170,000 to finish the development and deployment of Warehouse, a new codebase that is to replace the Python Packaging Index (PyPI). Amazon Releases Managed Message Broker Service for ActiveMQ Tuesday 05 December Amazon has released Amazon MQ, a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ, the open-source message broker that supports queues and topics, durable and non-durable subscriptions, push-based and poll-based messaging, and filtering, providing another option for administering and maintaining ActiveMQ. Coding for Carrots - Today's Google Doodle Monday 04 December Today's Google Doodle is a delightful coding tutorial, reminding us if we need reminding, that today marks the start of Computer Science Education Week. If you are looking right now for a simple introduction to coding suitable look no further than the Google Home page. Amazon Neptune Graph Database Monday 04 December Amazon has launched Neptune, a graph database that can be used to create relationship graphs of highly connected datasets. Neptune is a fully managed service, and is among the slew of announcements made at AWS re:Invent. Santa Trackers, from Norad and Google have become part of the Christmas tradition and both of them have now started their countdown to Christmas Eve when Santa takes off from the North Pole to deliver presents around the globe. Programmers Xmas - Alexa Suggest Some Presents Saturday 02 December You can guess the answer. This is the first of our features on presents suitable for programmers and for programmers to give. Yes it s commercial and if you buy any of our suggestions we get a small affiliates reward which helps to keep the lights on, but our recommendations are based on our enthusiasm not financial gain. Google has just announced a new AIY kit to add to its existing voice/AI kit. This takes a Raspberry Pi Zero W, yes a Zero, and turns it and its camera into a neural network vision system. There are two things that are remarkable about this - one the $45 price tag and two no cloud connection is needed as all computations are done in the box! Amazon Glacier Select Analyzes Archived Data Friday 01 December Amazon has released a tool that can query archived data held in Amazon Glacier, its low cost storage for data archiving. Glacier Select improves the attractiveness of Glacier because it makes the data stored in it usable. It's the time of year when the world-class Hour of Code once more commences; just an hour for introducing coding to the uninitiated, having them complete self guided tutorials. But is a hour sufficient? What can a beginner actually code within this limit? The answer is a bit more complicated than that, so let's find out all about it! Amazon's Giant Push Into Machine Learning Thursday 30 November Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service for the machine learning process; AWS DeepLens, a deep learning-enabled wireless video camera and four new machine learning application services were announced on the third day of this year's AWS re:Invent and are a direct challenge to Google and Microsoft. JetBrains has just announced the release of Kotlin 1.2 and it is already supported in Android Studio 3. What's new and what's missing? Barriers are a mysterious addition to the ConstraintLayout but in practice they are easy to use and useful - once you know what they are all about. 
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