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October 20 - 26, 2016
Book Reviews
Both of this week's titles have a 5-star rating from Mike James:
This is a fascinating book to read if only to feel, and share, the author's pain at the loss of a good focused technology being replaced by something that resembles a mess...Is there any point in using Microsoft web technologies? If there is then this book will sell you the new dream.
If you want to create more efficient C++ programs then this book is a must and it's a good read if you just want to broaden your knowledge of C++.
News
Microsoft C++/WinRT Wednesday 26 October
Microsoft has had a problem about how to make Universal Windows Apps easy to create from C++. The initial approach was to modify the language but this has now been dropped in favour of adding a library to standard C++.
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Taking Code to the Classroom Wednesday 26 October
This year's Hour of Code is fast approaching and now it and Computer Science Education Week, next happening December 5 - 11, 2016, appear to be fixtures in the school year. But Code.org has achieved much more than just a 60-minute taster for Computer Science.
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Disney Establishes Open Source Program Monday 24 October
The news here isn't that Disney has just open sourced some of its software projects. Rather it has set up a website to draw attention to projects that have in the past been open sourced, presumably with the aim of attracting new contributors.
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SQLite 3.15 Adds Row Value Support Monday 24 October
SQLite 3.15 is now available with support for row values, support for deterministic SQL functions in the WHERE clause of a partial index and the ability to VACUUM an attached database.
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European Astro Pi Challenge Sunday 23 October
The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting teams of students who are 16 years old and younger to run science experiments run on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Rovables - Wearables That Crawl All Over You Saturday 22 October
This is probably not what you think of when wearable computing is mentioned, but it's a really interesting idea and perhaps once we get over the shock and creepiness factor it will be the breakthrough needed to make our clothes intelligent.
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Bedrock Topper For SQLite Thursday 20 October
A networking and distributed transaction layer, called Bedrock, based on SQLite has been 'opened to the public' by Expensify.
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The Core
Peachpie Open Source PHP to .NET Compiler Monday 24 October
Peachpie is a new open source PHP language to .NET compiler, which aims at full PHP 7 compatibility. Looking at it gave us the opportunity to revisit the state of dynamic language interoperability on the .NET platform and consider the practical advantages that arise out of this atypical symbiosis of dynamic and static languages under the same roof.
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Android Adventures - Events Thursday 20 October
Working with Android Studio 2 makes building the UI easy with an interactive editor, but you still need to find out how to handle the things it isn't quite so good at. In this chapter we look at the general event handling - i.e beyond the onClick property that we have used so far.
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