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December 3 - 9, 2015
Book Reviews
News
Mozilla Gives Up On Firefox OS Wednesday 09 December
Mozilla has just announced in vague terms that it isn't going to be pushing Firefox OS any more. This isn't a huge surprise given the way things were, and are, going. What does the future now hold?
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Computer Science Education Week Now Big Event Wednesday 09 December
December 9th is Grace Hopper's birthday and it falls in Computer Science Education Week - the week in which in 2015 millions of school students around the world will experience an Hour of Code. This year other big names are getting involved.
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Even Adobe Is Giving Up On Flash Tuesday 08 December
Perhaps the headline is a little unfair, but Adobe is making it very clear that the future lies elsewhere and this degree of clarity should be applauded.
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Google Gears Up To Sell AI Vision Monday 07 December
Google just announced a limited preview of its Cloud Vision API and moved a step closer to making money out of its AI efforts.
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HoloLens - What Would You Like To See Built? Monday 07 December
Microsoft Hololens won't start to ship until next year but already it has a thriving community of developers who want to use it. Now Microsoft has launched a new website to asking devs community to submit ideas for the holographic apps, one of which will be built by Microsoft.
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Looking Into Sidef Monday 07 December
Sidef is a modern, yet experimental, dynamic, object-oriented programming language with an expressive grammar, embracing a new programming style, taking the best from languages like Ruby, Go, Perl 6 and JavaScript. Version 2.11 was recently released.
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A SAT Based Game Saturday 05 December
The Boolean Satisfiability problem or SAT is the best known NP Complete problem. It is fairly easy to understand if you have some knowledge of Boolean logic but now we have a simple game that helps you really get inside what is going on.
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PHP 7 Released Friday 04 December
PHP 7 has been released and is generally available. The new version uses a different engine to achieve better performance, and has an upgraded core interpreter.
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Apple Open Sources Swift 2 Friday 04 December
Apple's new language is now all grown up and ready to make its way onto other platforms. Does this mean that Swift has a future as a universal language?
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Let's Encrypt Now In Public Beta Thursday 03 December
Let's Encrypt is entering Public Beta today and signing up is free. The project is a a joined initiative by the non-profit entity Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) and the Linux Foundation, that aims to make the web a safer place by helping people set up encryption on their websites easily and without the usual hassle.
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State of Software Security Thursday 03 December
Veracode's report State of Software Security, launched today, focuses on application development and reveals that apps written in web scripting languages have a far higher prevalence rate of SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting those written in .NET or Java.
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The Core
Exploring Edison - I2C Measuring Temperature And Humidity Monday 07 December
Using I2C devices is fairly easy once you have successfully used one - and hence know what information you need and what to look for in a working system. In this chapter we use the HTU21D temperature and humidity sensor as a case study of I2C in action - it also happens to be a useful sensor.
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eBooks
Exploring Repayment Loans Friday 04 December
Repayment loans are the subject of the last of three chapters of Janet Swift's Financial Functions with a Spreadsheet which look at the effects of regular cashflows.
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