Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. This digest gives a summary of the latest content, which this week includes guidance for Secure Coding Best Practices for DevOps teams and Bus Basics from our Baggage's Bag section which takes a hardware perspective.

The Open Mainframe Project has launched a new COBOL programming course as an open source initiative offering introductory-level educational COBOL materials with modern tooling.

After a lot of iterations and false starts in terms of dates, Jakarta EE 10 is finally here and primarily focused on the Cloud and microservices.

Striim has joined the Databricks Technology Partners Program in a move designed to give Databricks customers access to a fully-managed cloud service that can be used to connect data from databases, applications, and clouds to Databricks in real-time. The announcement was made at the Big Data LDN conference, held in London today. 

Chainguard, the co-creator of Sigstore, has just launched Wolfi, a community Linux (un)distribution that is built with the default security measures necessary for securing the software supply chain.

In 2022 JavaScript lost its status as the most popular programming language for DevOps, being surpassed by TypeScript - which is, of course, a superset of JavaScript that offers optional static typing.

I enjoy Android programming but my struggle with Android Studio seems to get worse with every release. Is Dolphin going to be the fun, frolicking, experience its name suggests?

GitHub has added yet more material to the Arctic Vault in Svalbard, and says this completes its part of the task. The vault now contains the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years, as well as full-text copies of Wikipedia and Stack Overflow.

Learn to do Cryptography with Python and for free too. A course by computer scientist of ETH Zürich and cybersec expert Cyrill Gössi. He teaches the concepts of Cryptography with a practical approach.

Apache has added the ONNX Runtime to Apache OpenNLP. The addition works towards the goal of OpenNLP to bridge the gap between modern deep learning NLP models and Apache OpenNLP’s ease of use as a Java NLP library.

The Rust Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and sustaining the Rust programming language, has announced it is establishing a dedicated security team.

Today is World Bamboo Day which, since 2009, is observed on September 18 in order to raise awareness about the conservation of this extremely useful plant. It reminded me of an algoritrhmic puzzle, the Bamboo Garden Trimming (BGT) problem, also known as the Robot Panda problem.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest. It summarizes the week's news together with links to the week's book review and the titles selected for Book Watch Archive. This week Nikos Vaggalis shows how to use sqlite-zstd, a Rust library that can compress your database and Harry Fairhead expresses controversial opinions on the topic of Hackathons.

Stack Overflow tends to be more "friendly" to newcomers than  more experienced users. Almost two-thirds of the Stack Overflow community are "Silent Observers" and the majority of answers are provided by a small minority of "Experienced" users.

The Linux Foundation is setting up a new foundation. The aim is for the new OpenWallet Foundation to encourage the development of open source software to support interoperability for a wide range of wallet use cases.

Microsoft has updated SynapseML, its open-source library for creating massively scalable machine learning (ML) pipelines. The update consists of a new set of .NET APIs for massively scalable machine learning as part of the v0.10 release of SynapseML.

Microsoft has updated the Surface Duo Design Kit to add more components and an enhanced device frame. The design kit is a collection of all the UX design suggestions and UI components for both Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2, along with interface components.

The latest Go Developer Survey investigated the take up of three features introduced in Go 1.18 - Generics, Fuzzing and Go Workspaces, probing developers' opinions and the barriers to adoption.