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May 31 - June 6, 2018 Book Watch This week's additions to our ever-growing archive of newly published computer books are:
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Watch Soccer Games In 3D On Your Table Top Wednesday 06 June Watching sport on a 2D screen is never satisfying. A full 3D 360 surround vision is what is required to see what is going on and hence the idea that sport is one TV event that might benefit from special cameras and viewing devices. Now we have an alternative that might mean no changes are needed. Watch soccer on your table top in realistic AR "hologram" - it's as good as being there. Firefox Share Below 10 Percent Wednesday 06 June Despite any confidence we expressed about Firefox Quantum's ability to regain popularity as a desktop browser, its market share has continued to decline and has dipped below 10% for the first time. Amazon Neptune Graph DB Reaches GA Wednesday 06 June Amazon says its graph database Neptune is now Generally Available, though only in the US and EU. Neptune is a fully managed service that can be used to create relationship graphs of highly connected datasets. C Undefined Behavior - Depressing and Terrifying (Updated) Wednesday 06 June Even if you are a fairly expert C user, you may not know about undefined behavior, and if you do you might not realize what a problem it has become. A new critique suggests it is every bit as bad as you might expect once you know what it is and what use is being made of it. Udacity Launches Free Career Courses Tuesday 05 June To coincide with the time of the year that students all over the world graduate and start looking for jobs, Udacity, in collaboration with Grow With Google, has expanded its portfolio with twelve free, short, courses that will help those looking for a job or wanting to build their career. EF Core 2.1 RC Adds Lazy Loading Tuesday 05 June The first release candidate of EF Core 2.1 is now available with support for lazy loading, parameters in entity constructors, and LINQ GroupBy translation. EF Core is the lightweight cross-platform version of Entity Framework, the Object/Relational Mapping (O/RM) framework for .NET. Microsoft Buys GitHub - Get Ready For a Bigger Devil Monday 04 June HackXLR8 2018 London Monday 04 June Do you have an IoT, Smart Mobility or GreenTech solution or idea? Put it on the map at London Tech Week’s official hackathon, HackXLR8 2018 taking place at ExCel, London on June 13 - 14. AI Creates Breakthrough Realistic Animation Sunday 03 June Given how deep learning is cropping everywhere it was only a matter of time before it would be applied to facial reenactment. This will have a big impact in animation and computer graphics. Watch An Inverted Pendulum - Arduino-Driven Saturday 02 June If you have never seen an inverted pendulum in action - it's fun. What is even more fun is implementing one. Is it IoT? Is it control theory? Is it AI? It can be any and all - and did I mention it's fun? NativeScript Adds LiveSync with Webpack Friday 01 June The new release of NativeScript has the ability to enable LiveSync with Webpack simultaneously. Other improvements in NativeScript 4.1 include more flexible frame composition and an enterprise authentication template for handling single sign-on. GitHub Marketplace Now Accepts Free Apps and Offers Free Trials Friday 01 June A year after Github Marketplace launched, it has been opened up to all developers and you can now list free apps on Marketplace for free. Free trials of apps have also been introduced, a feature that has been found to have a positive impact on revenue. Qt 5.11 Adds Unicode 10 Support Thursday 31 May Qt 5.11 has been released ahead of schedule with support for Unicode 10 and a rewritten QML compiler pipeline. OpenAI Recruiting Fellows Thursday 31 May OpenAI is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Fellows, a program which offers 6-month apprenticeships in AI research at OpenAI to those who do not have a formal background in the field. Blazor, .NET In The Browser, Reaches 0.3 Thursday 31 May History has some strange twists and turns for those willing to see them. Blazor is one of the oddest. Take .NET compile it to Web Assembly and run it in the browser. Sounds like fun? Now we can all try it out as it reaches version 0.3. The Programmers Guide To Kotlin - Generics Monday 04 June Canvas Bitmap Operations - bitblt in JavaScript Thursday 31 May 
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Generics are an essential part of any modern language. Kotlin has generics and at first they look like any other languages generics but, as with most Kotlin features, they have some interesting differences. This is an extract from the book by Mike James introducing Kotlin to programmers of othe languages.
With Canvas you can now work with bitmaps at the pixel level. It's not difficult but you need to organise things to make it really easy and a good understanding helps. Ian Elliot, author of Just JavaScript and JavaScript Async gives a preview of a forthcoming title on JavaScript Graphics.