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April Week 4 04 May | Editor Our weekly digest lists the week's news, new titles added to our Book Watch Archive and our weekly book review. In this week's first featured article Mike James looks at Recursion. Then, to mark the 50th anniversary of CP/M, the first personal computer operating system to achieve commercial success, we delve into our archive for the history of its creator, Gary Kildall. |
Digital Play Shown To Be Good For Kids 03 May | Sue Gee When designed with their needs in mind, video games can benefit children’s well-being. This finding comes research from UNICEF in partnership with LEGO and the University of Sheffield. |
One State's Quest For Digital Sovereignty 03 May | Nikos Vaggalis The news is that the German State is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice. Why is this of significance? |
Azul Intelligence Cloud Expands Support 02 May | Sue Gee Azul has announced that its cloud analytics solution, Azul Intelligence Cloud, now supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based distribution. More DevOps teams will now benefit from its ability to boost productivity. |
BASIC Turns 60 02 May | Mike James On May 1,1964 the first BASIC program ran and the world was about to change. Now when we look back it is easy to be critical, but these were different times. |
Udacity's Offer To Recently Unemployed 01 May | Sue Gee Layoffs, across the board from major tech companies to struggling small businesses, are constantly in the news. Today Udacity has announced a special offer to help the recently unemployed professionals in the U.S. gain new skills that could help them land a new job. |
Google Reduces Support For Python, Dart And Flutter 01 May | Mike James There are many reports that Google has removed people from its Python, Dart and Flutter teams and possibly more. What does this say about relying on Google as a source of technology for your projects? |
OpenSilver 2.2 Adds LightSwitch Compatibility Pack 30 Apr | Kay Ewbank OpenSilver 2.2 has been released with the addition of a LightSwitch Compatibility Pack designed to provide a way to run legacy Visual Studio LightSwitch applications on modern browsers. The open-source alternative to Silverlight is capable of running large, complex legacy applications, as well as newly written C# and XAML applications. |
Microsoft's Cybersecurity For Beginners 30 Apr | Nikos Vaggalis A free, self-paced course about Cybersecurity 101 is on offer by Microsoft's Cloud Security Advocates. It's a 30+ lesson curriculum targeted at complete novices. |
Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available 29 Apr | Kay Ewbank Google has released Gemini 1.5 Pro with improvements including Native Audio Understanding, System Instructions, and a JSON mode. |
Node.js 22 Adds WebSocket Client 29 Apr | Ian Elliot Node.js 22 has been released with support for requiring ESM graphs, a stable WebSocket client, and updates of the V8 JavaScript engine. |
Vesuvius Challenge Continues 28 Apr | Sue Gee The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning and computer vision competition which started in March 2023. Its overarching aim is to read the contents of physically impenetrable Herculaneum Papyri burnt by fire and then buried under volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. |
April Week 3 27 Apr | Editor Take a break and catch up with the latest articles, book reviews and news posted on this site. In an extract from Programming the ESP32 in MicroPython, Harry Fairhead shows how to convert a plain vanilla insecure socket into a secure SSL socket and Mike James looks at flow of control using if and else in PHP. |
Grow with Google Launches Generative AI Course 26 Apr | Alex Denham Grow with Google, in collaboration with MIT RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education), is launching a no-cost Generative AI for Educators course. |
JetBrains Celebrates Software Developers 26 Apr | Kay Ewbank JetBrains has launched a campaign celebrating software developers worldwide. The campaign is run on behalf of JetBrains IDEs, the company's range of integrated development environment products. |
Two New Resources Tailored To Spring Developers 25 Apr | Nikos Vaggalis Spring Academy Pro is now freely available and Spring Builders is a new meeting point to discuss everything Spring related. |
Pulumi Adds Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Features 25 Apr | Kay Ewbank Pulumi has added new infrastructure lifecycle management features to Pulumi Deployments, its deployments and workflow product. |
Women Who Code Closing For Lack of Funding 24 Apr | Sue Gee Women Who Code the US-based non-profit organization that since its foundation in 2011 has advocated for women and diversity in technology, has announced its imminent closure due to critical funding cuts. |
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Featured Articles
Understanding CRLF Injection Attacks 03 May | Harry Wilson Recently a vulnerability was identified in the Cisco Secure Client that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a carriage return line feed (CRLF) injection attack against a user. CISCO responded promptly. What lessons can be drawn from this to help strengthen enterprise app, network and data security in general? |
The Trick Of The Mind - Recursion 01 May | Mike James Recursion who needs it? This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind which explores what it is to be a programmer. |
Gary Kildall - CP/M, Digital Research and GEM 25 Apr | Harry Fairhead To mark the 50th anniversary of CP/M, the first personal computer operating system to achieve commercial success, we delve into our archive for the history of Gary Kildall, an important influencer during the early days of the microcomputer revolution. |
ESP32 In MicroPython: SSL Sockets 23 Apr | Harry Fairhead & Mike James Sockets today almost always need to be secure sockets. This extract is from Programming the ESP32 in MicroPython and shows you how to convert a plain vanilla socket into an SSL socket. |
PHP Control Structures 1 - if and else 21 Apr | Mike James Getting to grips with programming or a new language is a matter of mastering the flow of control. This is the key idea in programming and understanding it makes the difference between a programmer and a non-programmer. |
Unhandled Exception!
We all build our code as if it will live forever, unless it's a RAD mock-up and even then it still lives forever. I predict not the heat death of the universe, but the legacy code death of programming - unless of course that's what AI is supposed to fix?
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Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. Some but by no means all of the books in Book Watch are eventually reviewed.
The AI Revolution in Medicine (Pearson) 03 May In this book, subtitled "GPT-4 and Beyond", Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg and Isaac "Zak" Kohane document their thoughts on their months of early access to GPT-4 and its momentous potential to improve diagnoses, summarize patient visits, streamline processes, and accelerate research. The book contains real GPT-4 dialogues, unrehearsed and unfiltered, brilliant and blundering alike, all annotated with context, candid commentary, real risk insights, and up-to-the-minute takeaways. <ASIN: 0138200130 > |
The Death of Expertise, 2nd Ed (Oxford University Press) 01 May Originally published in 2017 with the subtitle "The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters" this book exposes a cult of anti-expertise sentiment coinciding with anti-intellectualism. Tom Nichols addresses how while technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before, these gains have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. <ASIN: 0197763839> |
Code Like a Pro in Rust (Manning) 29 Apr This book takes an in-depth look at memory management, asynchronous programming, and the core Rust skills. Brenden Matthews covers productivity techniques for Rust testing, tooling, and project management. He also shows how to sidestep common Rust pitfalls and navigate quirks you might never have seen before, along with suggesting strategies for navigating the evolving Rust ecosystem. <ASIN:1617299642 > |
The Women of ACM-W (ACM Books) 26 Apr The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has more than 100,000 members, including trailblazing women who created ACM-W (ACM's Committee on Women in Computing) in 1993. This book, in the ACM's "Rendering History" series was published in celebration of ACM-W's 30th birthday. In it Gloria Childress Townsend explores the history of ACM-W. <ASIN:B0D1H91K2F> |
Architecting ASP.NET Core Applications, 3rd Ed (Packt) 24 Apr This book aims to fill the gaps in readers' knowledge of REST API and backend designs. Carl-Hugo Marcotte shows how to build robust, maintainable, and flexible apps using Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns and modern architectural principles. This new edition is updated for .NET 8 and focuses exclusively on the backend, with new content on REST APIs, the REPR pattern, and building modular monoliths. <ASIN:1805123386 > |
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