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March 9 - 15, 2017
Book Reviews
Mike James gave this book a rating of 4 out of 5, concluding: This book is suitable for a reader well versed in statistics (or at least willing to find out about stats somewhere else) and for the novice programmer wanting a very slow and methodical explanation of how R works.
Alex Armstrong awarded a rating of 4.5 out of 5, explaining: If you are planning to take the exam and you don't need too much spoonfeeding of Java ideas, then this is the essential book that will help you pass. If you are not so sure of your Java then I'd recommend getting another book before setting out on tackling the exam. If you don't plan to take the exam, this book is more like a set of notes to remind you about Java in this respect they are good but not essential.
Google's Jack & Jill Android Java Compiler Project Is Dead Wednesday 15 March In a surprise announcement, the Android development team has made it clear that the new Jack compiler and Jill linker are not going anywhere. The move to Java 8 will now be made by developing the existing javac compiler. Stack Overflow Reveals Hiring Trends Wednesday 15 March Stack Overflow has collected data on changes in the developer hiring scene that will be really useful to anyone currently looking for a job. It shows that ReactJS and Docker are the fastest growing targets that employers are looking for, while Ajax is declining fast. Python cx_Oracle Adds Direct Binding Wednesday 15 March Oracle has released a new version of the Python interface for Oracle Database. The new version supports Python 3.6 and Oracle client 12.2. Pi Day 2017 - Why Pi? Tuesday 14 March It is Pi Day again and it's time to think deep thoughts about Pi and why it is so special. Of course, you can just use it as an excuse for eating large amounts of Pie. WebAssembly Explorer - A Learning Tool Tuesday 14 March WebAssembly has arrived in Firefox 52 and Chrome 57. It brings the ability for developers to compile applications from C or C++ for the web. To help developers understand and experiment with its binary format Mozilla has created WebAssembly Explorer. Software Testing Diploma Tuesday 14 March Alison has added four new courses about software testing methods and procedures to its portfolio and, as they need to be taken as a sequence, has combined them in a Diploma in Software Testing. GameMaker Studio 2 Adds Level Editing Monday 13 March A new version of GameMaker Studio has been released with level editing and workflow enhancements. The software is designed for creating 2D games, and there's a new closed beta for the Mac version. Gmail Add-ons Developer Preview Monday 13 March Google has announced the developer preview of Gmail Add-ons which provides a new way for G Suite users to access an app's functionality directly from Gmail. //No Comment - Assessing Code Authorship, Git Blame Who? & The Case of OpenStack Sunday 12 March • Assessing Code Authorship: The Case of the Linux Kernel • Git Blame Who? Stylistic Authorship Attribution of Small, Incomplete Source Code Fragments • Cooperation among competitors in the open-source arena: The Case of OpenStack Patently Absurd - Out Of Office Notification Saturday 11 March In January 2017 the United States Patent Office granted a patent application lodged seven years previously by IBM for an Out-of-Office email notification system. Seven weeks later IBM formally disclaimed the patent. What does this say about software patents? Self Driving Car Challenge Friday 10 March Udacity and Chinese ridesharing company Didi Chuxing are joint sponsors of a contest with a top cash prize of US $100,000. Part of the appeal of participating is that the top five teams get the chance to run code on the Udacity self-driving car. //No Comment - JavaScript Classes, Checking APIs & Deep Learning Thursday 09 March • Refactoring Legacy JavaScript Code to Use Classes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly • Statically Checking Web API Requests in JavaScript • Development of JavaScript-based deep learning platform and application to distributed training Kaggle Enveloped By Google Cloud Thursday 09 March Rumors that Google was acquiring the data science community Kaggle were confirmed at the Google Cloud Next Conference yesterday. This confers the benefit of the ability to store and query large datasets and direct access to Google's cloud machine learning environment. Programming - A Life Long Challenge Thursday 09 March What is it that makes programming more than just an occupation? It's that chance it gives you to see things from the inside out. And watching a beginner gives insights into what it is all about. Password Cracking RAR Archives With Perl Monday 13 March Cracking RAR archives is something not yet achievable as the format has no known vulnerabilities.Let me correct that, no known vulnerabilities as far as unlocking an encrypted RAR archive without the use of a password goes. In this article we look at password cracking by dictionary attack. Along the way we explore how to turn a single threaded Perl/Tk GUI application into a multi-threaded one. 
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