This week saw the publication of the Deep C# Sharp: Dive into Modern C#, the latest title in the I Programmer Library. All are books written by members of our team and between them cover programming in JavaScript, C, Python and Kotlin, Computer Science, IoT and spreadsheeting - topics we cover on this site.

Sir Clive Sinclair was the inventor who, as far as the UK was concerned, made home computing affordable, paving the way for today's thriving computer games industry.

The first set of stable Android Jetpack Wear OS libraries are now available, covering wear, wear-input, wear-ongoing, wear-phone-interactions, and wear-remote-interactions. Android Jetpack is a suite of libraries for use in app development designed to reduce boilerplate code.

The versatile full stack Java-based framework that is a competitor to Spring MVC, continues to innovate with its new release of v21. But first, what exactly is Vaadin?

VMware has announced a beta version of a new application platform designed for enterprise developers who want to build and run cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) is designed to offer a 'pre-paved path to production' according to VMware.

We always knew that PHP is the common server-side web technology. Even so, discovering PHP is used by almost 80% of websites and that the next most used server-side languages has less than 10% is something of an eye opener.

So you have a pizza with n different toppings and you want to share it with a friend so that you each get the same amount of each topping. How many cuts do you need to make?

There's an updated version of Flutter with improvements including performance and feature improvements to help users track down performance problems in their own apps, full screen support for Android, updated text editing to support switchable keyboard shortcuts, and a better Widget Inspector.

Gradle, the build automation tool for multi-language software development that is widely used for Android is notoriously difficult to use. To help, here's a YouTube playlist on "Understanding Gradle" that is straight to the point.

Finally we can report a result from the Apple vs. Epic Games lawsuit. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has issued a permanent injunction saying that Apple can no longer forbid developers from directing users to third-party payment options, giving devs the prospect of better revenue from in-app purchases.

Microsoft has made a collection of libraries for analyzing HotSpot Java garbage collection (GC) log files available in an open source form. GCToolkit parses log files into discrete events and provides an API for aggregating data from those events.

Teasmade is an open source project from VEEB on GitHub that provides a great example of "upcyclying" - breathing new life into discarded or even broken items using your programming and electronics skills.

This weekly digest is a summary of our news coverage together with the latest book review and additions to our archive of new book titles plus our latest articles. This week Harry Fairhead has an explanation of the Raspberry Pi's implementation of pulse width modulation and Mike James introduces algorithmic thinking - the best reason for learning to program.

For the fourth year in a row Google ranked top as the employer that Computer Science students would like to work for.

If you are at all confused about which of PostgreSQL index to choose for a specific use case, there's a  free course from Percona University designed to help you.

The latest monthly update to Visual Studio Code has been released with improvements including automatic language detection of the programming language when code is pasted into the editor.

Apache Drill has been updated in what the developers are calling its biggest release ever. Version 1.19 adds new connectors for Apache Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Splunk, along with Avro support for the Kafka plugin.

There is a widely held belief that "maker" hardware such as the Raspberry Pi is disdained by the professional community who wouldn't be seen dead loading code onto an "amateur" piece of hardware. Well this might not be quite true.