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I Programmer reports news of interest to developers. We cover new releases of languages and tools and a lot more besides. Sometimes we are controversial and we always welcome your comments. This round-up covers October 2-8.
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This Week's Book Reviews
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database Step By Step
Reviewed by Kay Ewbank who gave it a rating of 4, out of a possible 5 concluding:
I liked this book. The information is provided in a clear and simple way, and I think you could go from knowing nothing about SQL Azure to being able to make a reasonable attempt to write a database app. You wouldn’t be an expert at the end of the book, but you’d know enough to put a system together and manage it.
- Learning Responsive Web Design
Awarding a rating of 4, Lucy Black concluded:
Overall the book is attractively presented, with a clear and readable style. However while it has the subtitle "a beginner's guide" you do need a background in both HTML and JavaScript to get the most out of it.
- Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python
Mike James gave a 5, the top possible rating to this title which he recommends highly to those who want a thorough grounding in Computer Science, writing:
This is a really good book provided you are the right reader. It is not a dummy's book and it isn't exclusively focused on teaching you to code in Python. This is a more general book on the ideas and practice of programming and algorithm construction
If you want more details of the print edition of each of this week's titles click on the upper book jacket to the right. Click on the lower one for the Kindle edition and to be able to sample the beginning on the book for free on your PC, smartphone, tablet or Kindle.
News
Google Code-In 2014 Announced Wednesday 08 October
Now in its 5th year Google Code-In is an opportunity for pre-university students aged between 13 and 17 to have an experience of real world coding and making a contribution to an open source project.
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Fear And Loathing In the App Store 8 - Apple Takes Down Innovative App Wednesday 08 October
Programming into the unknown - it is what keeps us all going. The idea that with nothing but some code we can do something that hasn't been done before. In the old days what you did was between you and your intellect. Now there is a third party getting in the way - the gods of the app stores.
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Turing's Bombe Tops Poll Wednesday 08 October
The Bombe has been voted the favorite recipient of the UK's Engineering Heritage Awards narrowly beating Concorde which came second.
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Lennart Poettering - Open Source Not A Nice Place Tuesday 07 October
In a blog post Lennart Poettering, the main force behind the controversial systemd Linux configuration system, explains that any dislike of his software spills over to him personally - and not just hate mail, but hit men. It is a shocking document.
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Eve Set To Make Programming Easy? Tuesday 07 October
Chris Granger is the man responsible for Light Table and what you think about his next project is probably conditioned by what you thought about his previous efforts.
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Eric The Python IDE Monday 06 October
Decimal point updates have recently been released of eric5 and eric4. The latest versions are 5.4.7 and 4.5.25 respectively.
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DukeScript - Java Everywhere Again? Monday 06 October
DukeScript is a Duke's Choice winner at JavaOne 2014 and it is another take on the Java dream of write once run anywhere. In this case the target is mobile and web apps.
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Latest On C# 6 And VB 12 Friday 03 October
The latest news from the Microsoft compiler team is that, because the performance and quality of Roslyn is more important, it is time to cut new features from the .NET languages.
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Chrome Continues To Gain Ground Friday 03 October
With the turn of the month the latest statistics from Net Market Share show that Chrome usage increased during September both on mobile devices and on the desktop.
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Google APIs Adopt Promises Friday 03 October
Promises seem to be the way that every JavaScript framework is heading. The latest to embrace the Promise is Google's JavaScript Client Library.
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MySQL Extras Released Thursday 02 October
Oracle has released a number of additional MySQL releases and early access features. The new releases include MySQL Fabric 1.5, MySQL Workbench 6.2, and a plugin that lets HTTP clients and JavaScript users connect to MySQL using HTTP.
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Intel IoT Dev Kit Thursday 02 October
Intel is serious about the whole IoT area including hobbyists and small startups. It is not only providing the hardware you need, but the surrounding software and services. The new Intel IoT Dev Kit is well worth looking at.
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Professional Programmer
A Comment To The Future Me Thursday 02 October
Comments - the simplest of all programming statements and yet at the same time the most difficult of all. Why is it we all find it so hard to write useful comments? Comments are hard.
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Babbage's Bag
Introduction To The Genetic Algorithm Tuesday 07 October
Genetic algorithms pop up all over computer science and applied computing. They are simple, easy to apply and easy to understand. What mystery remains is why they work at all? How can somthing seemingly so random home in on a one in a million plus solution?
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