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Microsoft Fluid Framework Reinvents OLE Microsoft has announced a new set of technologies called Fluid Framework. The announcement was made at this year's Build conference this week in Seattle. Android Is Kotlin First Visual Studio Intellicode For All .NET Is One With .NET 5 OpenSSH Version 8.0 Released Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Online Guido van Rossum On Python and Diversity in Open Source Monday 06 May Google Open Sources Sandboxing Tool Atlas Robot Walks The Plank Computer History Museum Welcomes New Fellows Saturday 04 May Flow9 Open Sourced New Facebook Scholarship Challenge On Udacity CodeGuppy - Coding For Kids in Javascript Electron 5 Improves Packaged Apps Supreme Court Asks For Government Help In Oracle v Google Wednesday 01 May Apache Migrates To GitHub 
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The cache API is closely associated with Progressive Web Apps but it can be used in any JavaScript program to good effect. This extract from my recently published book JavaScript Async: Events Callbacks, Promises & Async/Await explains how promises make it ease.
The sort of instructions that most computers recognize are too simple for humans to be bothered with - and so we invented assembly language. Find out how it works and how it started the whole movement to abstract away from the computer's hardware.
There isn't much substantive for the Android programmer announced at this year's Google I/O, but there are signs about the future direction it is all heading in - and its Kotlin-oriented.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Visual Studio IntelliCode, its AI-supercharged tool that gives you contextual IntelliSense recommendations powered by a machine learning model trained on thousands of open source repositories.
Microsoft's developer environment is something of a mess these days but at least one set of strands is about to unify. In the near future there will be just one .NET - to rule them all? 
The OpenSSH suite, a complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation which includes a sftp client and server, reaches version 8.0. 
Microsoft has opened a private preview of an online code editor based on Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Online is a browser-based editor that is being positioned as a companion for Code that you can use to make a quick edit rather than a full-time development environment of choice. 
In a wide ranging conversation, Guido van Rossum outlines how and why he initiated the Python language and why he resigned as BDFL after 28 years. He also discusses the issue of diversity in open source communities with interviewer Swapnil Bhartiya, the founder of the TFiR website.
Google has made its Sandboxed API tool open source. The tool can be used to create security policies for individual software libraries. 
Falling over is a huge risk for a big bipedal robot such as Atlas. So this video which demonstrates poise and balance as an Atlas negotiates safe crossing between two rickety platforms separated by stacks of narrow bricks shows real progress. 
At a ceremony today, the Computer History Museum is welcoming the four recipients of it 2019 Fellow Awards. They are James Gosling, Leslie Lamport, Katherine Johnson and Louis Pouzin.
Flow9 is a functional language with C-family syntax that can be used for building cross-platforms UIs with simple code. Its developers, from Area9, have now made it open source on GitHub. 
At its F8 developer event this week, Facebook and Udacity announced a new scholarship program. It is based around a new course that aims to teach AI engineering skills in privacy-preserving technologies. 
CodeGuppy, unlike other introductory platforms such as Scratch which use visual block-based languages, aims to teach kids (and teens and "creative adults" to code by writing Javascript. Why is that better?
The latest release of Electron is available with upgraded versions of Chromium, Node.JS and V8. Electron 5 also improves the way packaged apps behave. Electron was originally known as Atom Shell as it was developed for GitHub's Atom text editor. 
The U.S. Supreme Court has again requested the views of the U.S.Solicitor General with regard to Google's petition asking for a judicial review of the copyright issues stemming from the Oracle v Google Lawsuit. 
The Apache Software Foundation has migrated its Git service to GitHub. This is the end point of a restructuring from using Apache's own version control service, Apache Subversion, along with Git, to using only GitHub.