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June 18 - 24, 2015
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Book Reviews
Flowering Success Wednesday 24 June
Flower Checker is a rare species among apps - it earns more money than its team of developers ever expected while at the same time providing them what they really want - raw data.
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New Android Bug Bounty Scheme Tuesday 23 June
Google has initiated Android Security Rewards covering vulnerabilities discovered in the latest available Android versions for Nexus phones and tablets currently available for sale in the Google Store in the U.S.
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Racket 6.2 Released Tuesday 23 June
Racket 6.2 has been released, having been reorganized into a small core repo with other features separated into a number of packet repos.
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Unicode 8 Released Monday 22 June
A new version of the Unicode standard has been released with new emoji characters and scripts.
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Coursera Data Science Sepcialization Starts Today Monday 22 June
If you want to take advantage of the boom of interest in data science then you'll be interested in the series of Data Science courses from John Hopkins University that run on the Cousera Platform.
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First Peppers Sell Out Sunday 21 June
SoftBank's friendly humanoid robot finally went on sale in Japan yesterday and the first batch of 1000 Peppers sold out in under a minute.
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Inceptionism: How Neural Networks See Saturday 20 June
Neural networks achieve great things, but it is slightly worrying that we don't really know how they work. Inceptionism is an attempt to make neural networks give up their secrets by showing us what they see. It creates some amazing artwork along the way.
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AWS Adds Java Lambda Support Friday 19 June
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated AWS Lambda to let you write Lambda functions in Java, including Java 8.
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PHP At 20 Friday 19 June
As the alpha of PHP 7.0.0 is announced, it’s worth contemplating that PHP has now reached its twentieth anniversary.
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Microsoft Updates T&Cs Thursday 18 June
Microsoft has emailed customers of its cloud services informing them of important changes to their terms and conditions.
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WebAssembly Has Mozilla, Microsoft,Apple and Google Backing It Thursday 18 June
When the history of this era of programming is written, what happened will seem like the drunken lurchings of a lunatic. First we have JavaScript, then asm.js and now WebAssembly. Is there no planning, forethought and vision in web development? Apparently not.
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Professional Programmer
Python Books For Beginners Thursday 18 June
Python has become a popular language for complete beginners. It is always a tall order to teach programming from scratch - and these days books increasingly take a back seat to interactive online methods. Even so, having a book on a topic is a good way to consolidate a practical approach to learning a computer language.
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The Core
Custom Attributes In C# Tuesday 23 June
The role of custom attributes in C# can be confusing. They are easy to use when supplied, but how do you go about creating custom attributes? And when are they useful?
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