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Azure Drops MariaDB Support, Adds Free SQL DB 02 Oct | Kay Ewbank ![]() Microsoft has announced changes to its Azure database services that will see support dropped for MariaDB and a free tier added for the preview of Azure SQL databases. |
Linux Kernel Long-Term Support Cut 02 Oct | Harry Fairhead ![]() News from the recent Open Source Summit Europe is that long term support for the Linux kernel is being reduced from 6 years to 2 years. How disruptive is this likely to be? |
DynIBaR Can Freeze Time 01 Oct | David Conrad DynIBar aka Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering is a new approach to synthesizing novel views from mobile phone video footage. Not only does the technique eliminate blur and shake, it can even do bullet time effects to freeze time while sweeping the camera around to highlight a dramatic moment. |
September Week 4 30 Sep | Editor ![]() This week Google celebrated its 25th Birthday. How different modern life would be without the convenience of Search in all its many forms. Google is also at the forefront of the latest AI breakthroughs and that is the topic of a report by Mike James. Just click for all the rest of the news and the books and articles from this week. |
Secure Code Warrior Announces Devlympics 29 Sep | Alex Denham ![]() Secure Code Warrior is to host its third annual Devlympics secure coding competition on October 17-18, 2023. Devlympics is a free tournament of coding challenges for developers of all levels of expertise. |
W3C Issues Web Sustainability Guidelines 29 Sep | Kay Ewbank ![]() The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Sustainable Web Design Community Group has released a draft report on sustainable web design. The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 set out ways to design and implement digital products and services that put people and the planet first. |
Raspberry Pi 5 Announced 28 Sep | Harry Fairhead ![]() Despite strong suggestions that a Pi 5 would be delayed until 2024, the Pi 5 has been announced and shipments are promised in the last week in October. |
Happy Birthday To Wolfi Linux Undistro 27 Sep | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() It's the the one-year anniversary of Wolfi, the first community Linux undistro focused on supply chain security. A lot has happened during that year. Let's find out what. |
Happy 25th Birthday, Google 27 Sep | Sue Gee Today Google is celebrating its 25th Birthday. Sundar Pichai tweeted "Thanks to everyone who uses our products and challenges us to keep innovating and to all Googlers!" And there's a Google Doodle depicting the changes to the Google Logo over a quarter century. |
Google's 25 Years of AI Progress 27 Sep | Mike James ![]() As part of Google's 25 year celebration, a blog post lists "Our 10 biggest AI moments...". It is true that Google has pushed AI to get us where we are today, but the reality is more nuanced than just ten greatest hits. |
Turn PostgreSQL Into A Vector Store 26 Sep | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() pg_vector is an extension for PostgreSQL that renders it a viable alternative to specialized vector stores used in LLMs. We show you how to use it and report on the latest, faster incarnation, written in Rust, pgvecto.rs. |
Apache Pinot 1.0 Released 26 Sep | Kay Ewbank ![]() Apache Pinot 1.0 has been released. The real-time distributed OLAP datastore has been purpose-built for low-latency, high-throughput analytics. |
Redocly CLI - The Super Tool For API Management 25 Sep | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() Redocly is an open source tool written in Typescript that |
GitHub Adds To Enterprise Importer 25 Sep | Kay Ewbank ![]() GitHub has updated its products for importing repositories and CI pipelines. GitHub Enterprise Importer can now be used to import from Bitbucket, and GitHub Actions Importer can now be used for Atlassian's CI/CD products. |
Unix Clock Ticks Down To 2038 Problem 24 Sep | Harry Fairhead ![]() Remember the year 2K catastrophe? Well no, neither do I, cos we had more or less fixed the problem by the time the dreaded date arrived. Soon after people were happy to point out that we had a whole 38 years to the next problem. But how long is it now? |
September Week 3 23 Sep | Editor ![]() 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 an extract from Programmer's Python: Data in which Mike James discusses dictionaries, the key data structure in Python. |
Learn Perl With FreeCodeCamp 22 Sep | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that a Perl course has been published on FreeCodeCamp. Amongst the myriad of Javascript and Python courses, there it is, a lone star. |
Unicode 15.1 Released With More Hieroglyphs 22 Sep | Kay Ewbank ![]() Unicode 15.1 has been released, hot on the heels of Unicode 15. The latest standard adds two new scripts and 4,500 new characters, along with 20 new emojis and extended support for hieroglyphs. |
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Extending & Embedding Python Using C - Pi 02 Oct | Mike James ![]() Discover what goes into coding a Python extension module and see how fast C is when compared to Python by using it to compute Pi. |
Books For Experienced JavaScript Developers 28 Sep | Kay Ewbank ![]() The team of I Programmer book reviewers read a lot of programming titles, and our programmer's bookshelf section provides a guide to those that we thought were among the best, with recommendations of the books you might find helpful at different stages in your personal development. |
Applying C - Pthreads 25 Sep | Harry Fairhead ![]() The standard way to do threading in C under Linux is to use Pthreads. This extract is from my book on C in an IoT context. |
Using ABAC To Secure Your Applications 21 Sep | Gilad David Maayan Data is vulnerable to security breaches with dire consequences in the case of unauthorized access. With ABAC you can establish fine-grained access policies that govern who can access what, when, and under what conditions. |
Programmer's Python Data - The Dictionary 18 Sep | Mike James ![]() Dictionaries are the key data structure in Python and you cannot avoid them. Find out how it all works in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data. |
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ASP.NET Core in Action, 3rd Ed (Manning) 02 Oct Fully updated to ASP.NET Core 7.0, in this book Microsoft MVP Andrew Lock shows how to use C# and .NET skills to build cross-platform web applications. This revised bestseller reveals the latest .NET patterns, including minimal APIs and minimal hosting. <ASIN: 1633438627> |
Unsupervised (Wiley) 29 Sep Subtitled, "Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies", this book examines the emerging technologies and tools that are starting to revolutionize our world, and looks at how we have arrived at this point, and who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision. <ASIN:1394209908> |
Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous (Addison-Wesley) 27 Sep Subtitled "Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python", in this book Michael Hartl teaches the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need to be professionally productive. Hartl introduces Python both as a general-purpose language and as a specialist tool for web development and data science, presenting focused examples and exercises that help you internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don't care about. <ASIN:0138050953 > |
Persistence Best Practices for Java Applications (Packt) 25 Sep In this book, subtitled "Effective strategies for distributed cloud-native applications and data-driven modernization", Otàvio Santana and Karina Varela present well-established patterns and standards that can be used in Java solutions, with insights into the pros and cons of trending technologies and frameworks used in cloud-native microservices. The book confronts the challenges of cloud adoption head-on, particularly those tied to the growing need for cost reduction through stack modernization. <ASIN:1837631271> |
Excel VBA, 4th Ed (In Easy Steps) 22 Sep In this book Mike McGrath demonstrates VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macro programming in a clear and concise manner. This 4th edition is updated for Microsoft 365. <ASIN: 184078976X> |
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