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Keeping up with developments that affect you as a developer can be time-consuming. Here is a convenient summary of the news we reported November 22 - 28, plus links to our new book reviews and articles.
This Week's Book Reviews
Programmer Puzzles
Self-Descriptive Arrays Friday 23 November
Put on your thinking cap for another set of conundrums that will exercise your coding skills. This time Melvin Frammis introduces his junior partner Bugsy Cottman to some classic number puzzles that can be solved with arrays.
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News
Q.bo Robot Available To Buy and Build Wednesday 28 November
Q.bo, the open source standard robot that has been under development by TheCorpora Robotic Company, has now started shipping. It is available in kit form and in two fully assembled, Q.bo Evo, models.
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VS2012 Update 1 available Wednesday 28 November
The first update for Visual Studio 2012 can now be downloaded, with over 100 bug fixes along with new features.
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Nashorn A New JVM JavaScript Tuesday 27 November
Oracle has proposed a new OpenJDK project to create a fast and lightweight JavaScript engine running on the JVM. The Nashorn project, German for Rhino, is being voted on now.
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Google Code-In 2012 Starts Tuesday 27 November
The contest that is designed to give teens a chance of making a useful contribution to open source software has just started - and it's not just coding. There are other tasks to choose from.
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Small Basic Grows Extensions Monday 26 November
The latest extension to Microsoft's teaching language Small Basic is Version 2 of a set of Windows Forms controls that now includes a chart control.
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New Center Probes AI Risks Monday 26 November
A new UK research center has been set up to investigate the potential threat presented by developments in human technology, including Artificial Intelligence.
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JSFeat - JavaScript Image Processing Library Sunday 25 November
Modern JavaScript is fast, fast enough to do real time image processing. JSFeat is a JavaScript library that implements some advanced image processing and the demos prove it does it in real time.
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Toshiba's Four-Legged Friend Sunday 25 November
Toshiba has developed a tetrapod robot capable of investigative exploration of the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant which are is dangerous for humans to enter.
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Robots On The Move Saturday 24 November
What brings Knight Rider's KITT, Star Trek's Data and Asimov's Robby the Robot together, along with a complete team of Aldebaran Naos? The answer is an ad for General Electric.
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Ingress, Google's Breakthrough Augmented Reality Game Saturday 24 November
Ingress, Google's augmented reality multiplayer game is still in closed beta. Even so it is already becoming the most talked about, and perhaps even desired, AR app so far. But is it just a game or something more sinister?
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Play Catch With Disney Research's Humanoid Robot Friday 23 November
Disney Research has posted a YouTube video that provides a convincing display of a robot's ability to interact with humans playing catch. The robot even reacts appropriately to dropping the ball.
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IBM's TrueNorth Simulates 530 Billion Neurons Friday 23 November
IBM Research has broken new ground with a simulation of 530 billion neurons in a network modeled on the connectivity of a monkey brain - almost enough for a complete working brain.
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Apple Patents Page Turning Friday 23 November
Having asserted its ownership of revolutionary ideas such as rectangles with round corners and unlocking touch sensitive devices by touching the screen, Apple now has ownership of electronic page turning.
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A Tour of Windows Phone Toolkit Thursday 22 November
The Microsoft Windows Phone Toolkit team has announced the release of the Windows Phone 8 version of the Windows Phone Toolkit and provided an overview of its features.
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Shumway - Mozilla's JavaScript Flash Player Thursday 22 November
A new project from Mozilla aims to build a SWF Flash Player implementation in JavaScript that does not rely on native code and so provides an alternative way to process rich media without a plugin.
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Thanksgiving Phones Thursday 22 November
Just settling down for the perfect Thanksgiving dinner - then one by one each of the diners pull out their phone. What to do about it? The Joy of Tech has one possible solution for you.
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Professional Programmer
HTML5 Books Monday 26 November
There has been a flood of HTML5 books ever since it was first announced. We have trawled through the reviews on Programmer reviews to find the top-rated recommendations for beginners and experts.
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History
From Baby to Mark I Wednesday 28 November
The Manchester Baby was one of the first stored program computers. It used a CRT tube to store data and worked sequentially a bit at a time. It took about an hour to find a factor of a number but it was revolutionary and the first of the Manchester machines.
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