The Core

Programmer's Python - Local and Global  
Monday 28 January

A Programmer's Guide to Canvas  
Thursday 24 January

The HTML5 canvas object provides bitmap graphics to JavaScript. For a programmer's viewpoint of how it all works read on. 

News

Not So Quick! WebAssembly
Wednesday 30 January

A lot of hopes are pinned on the future success of WebAssembly as an alternative to native apps. Of course, for this to be true WebAssembly has to be fast. But how fast is it?

Language Learning Insights From HackerRank 2019 Survey   Tuesday 29 January

A new survey from HackerRank reveals that last year knowledge of JavaScript overtook that of Java .It also highlights a distinct generation gap in developer's first coding projects. 

Eclipse GlassFish Java EE 8 Certified  
Tuesday 29 January

GlassFish, and its associated Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) code, has been fully migrated to Eclipse Foundation stewardship. The new release, Eclipse GlassFish 5.1.0, is now fully Java EE 8 certified, which represents a key step to ensuring backward compatibility of Jakarta EE. 

Pharo 7 Focuses On IoT  
Tuesday 29 January

There's a new version of Pharo, the open-source Smalltalk-inspired language and core library. The new release adds tools to develop applications in small devices for use on the Internet of Things. 

Apple Patents Swift  
Monday 28 January

This may be a storm in a teacup, or a typhoon massing off the port bow. Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language. 

Scylla DB Adds Materialized Views  
Monday 28 January

There's a new version of Scylla, the open source NoSQL database that's Apache Cassandra compatible. Version 3.0 adds support for materialized views, secondary indexes, and hinted hand-offs, and has improved performance. 

Sir Tony Hoare On Concurrency  
Sunday 27 January

Living legend, C A R Hoare, or more informally Tony Hoare, who is known for Quicksort, Hoare Logic and the formal language CSP, explains in a 10-minute interview with Erlang Solutions how he became interested in concurrency. 

Amazon's Delivery Scout  
Saturday 26 January

As we have said before, self-driving delivery vehicles are going to be as disruptive, if not more so, than self-driving cars and they might be here sooner. Amazon has, at long last, stopped pretending that drones are going to be the last mile delivery option and has built its own autonomous bot. 

Google Asks The Supreme Court To Decide The Future Of Computing   Friday 25 January

I don't think that the title is over the top. I really don't think that we understand what the longstanding dispute between Oracle and Google means for the rest of us. Now Google has asked the Supreme Court to review the situation. 

Take The Stack Overflow Survey 2019  
Friday 25 January

The annual Stack Overflow developer survey has opened and is awaiting responses from not only its community but anyone who works with code, everywhere.

Coursera and Google Address Cloud Security Skills Shortage   Thursday 24 January

With so many businesses relying on the cloud for their critical assets and day to day operations, there is a growing need to proactively plan against any potential information security threats. This has revealed a skills gap with regard to cloud security which Coursera and Google are collaborating to fill. 

Red Hat Drops MongoDB Over License  
Thursday 24 January

MongoDB's attempts to make some money from its NoSQL database have hit another snag as Red Hat has now dropped it from its Enterprise Linux distribution.