Dates are always more difficult than you could ever imagine. Find out about the simplest case, naive dates, in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data .

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This particular C# puzzle is one of those that involves an error that no self respecting programmer would make... but are you so sure. If you use the DateTime class regularly then sure, you not only won't make the mistake you will spot the nature of the problem in no time at all.

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After early indications that AI-powered coding assistants increase developer productivity, findings are emerging that challenge this and suggest code quality may be reduced by their use. At the same time, a majority of developers now feel their jobs are threatened by AI.

RPi recently announced the Pico 2, but while we are all waiting for the more useful Pico 2W, with WiFi, the tiny Pimoroni outfit had produced something better - the Pico Plus 2 with WiFi. What is going on?

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the second public draft of the proposed new version of its Digital Identity Guidelines. It includes updated rules regarding passwords that seem refreshingly sensible.

Tcl/Tk 9 has been released with changes including 64-bit capacity, and improvements to the handling of Unicode and encodings.

It was in April 2024 that we had Java 22. Now after just 6 months there's version 23, which is a STS release with lots of features in preview status.

GitHub has announced an option offering tighter control over where data is stored to meet regional requirements. The GitHub Enterprise Cloud data residency feature will launch on October 29 for the European Union, with additional regions including Australia, Asia and Latin America to be added later.

The recent Christie's auction sale of historic computers collected for his Living Computer Museum by Paul Allen saw a Cray 1, sell for over $1million, four times higher than its estimate. The computer that exceeded its estimate by the highest margin was an Apple Lisa that realized $882,000, 44 times its estimate.

David A. Padua is the recipient of the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award which recognizes achievements in parallel and high performance computing (HPC). Padua is cited for innovative and usable contributions to the theory and practice of parallel compilation and tools, as well as service to the computing community.

An updated version of the free, self-paced online course by Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates on Generative AI has been released.

Microsoft has introduced an Azure AI Inference SDK for .NET. The SDK can be used to access and use AI models from the Azure AI Model Catalog for inference tasks like chat in .NET applications.

The Deno team has released the release candidate for Deno 2.0, which includes everything expected in the final release. This is the largest update since 1.0 back in May 2020, with major changes like the introduction of Node's process global.

Author: Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0138187538
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Audience: Agile developers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

The driver behind this book was the pandemic and the need to find ways to make remote working effective for teams. So does the book fulfil its subtitle of "Remote collaboration techniques for Agile software teams"?

This book guides the reader example-by-example from setup, through that first SQL query, to advanced topics like building data pipelines and embedding DuckDB as a local data store for a Streamlit web app. Mark Needham, Michael Hunger and Michael Simons explore DuckDB’s handy SQL extensions, get to grips with aggregation, analysis, and data without persistence, and use Python to customize DuckDB.

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Subtitled "Data Analysis Is (Not) an Art", in this book Franz Kronthaler shows how to analyze data sets systematically and to use the R Commander to extract information from data almost effortlessly. Both are (not) an art! The statistical methods are presented and discussed using a single data set. This makes it clear how the methods build on each other and gradually more and more information can be extracted from the data.

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In this book, mathematician Paulina Rowińska leads us on a journey around the globe to discover how maps and math are deeply entwined, and always have been. From a sixteenth-century map, an indispensable navigation tool that exaggerates the size of northern countries, to public transport maps that both guide and confound passengers, to congressional maps that can empower or silence whole communities, she reveals how maps and math have shaped not only our sense of space but our worldview.

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