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If you want to get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer, our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews,and news written each day by programmers, for programmers. This week we start with an extract from Harry Fairhead's brand new book "Applying C for the IoT with Linux". Then Mike James tackles Information Theory. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
June 6 - 12, 2019
Book Review of the WeekSue Gee awarded a rating of 4.6 for a book subtitled "How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing". A must read for those interested in gender issues and in 20th century history of British Computing - with plenty of lessons for today. New Listings in Book Watch
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Graphics in Linux go from low level to full 3D. The most basic and in many ways most useful for low level code is the Framebuffer but is is hard to find out how it all works. This extract is from my book on C in an IoT context.
So you know what a bit is – or do you? How much information does a bit carry? What is this "information" stuff anyway? The answers are, unsurprisingly, all contained in the subject called Information Theory, which was invented by one man. 
Apple seems to not know the old saying about "when you are in a hole, stop digging". Or is it more like lighting another fire when the house isn't quite an inferno? 
Packt has shared the results of its 2019 Skill Up Survey. As well as providing information on the languages programmers use, it investigates why they choose them. It also reveals what programmers regret having learned. 
There's a new version of PureScript with a completely rewritten parser. The developers say they hope this release will open up a lot of opportunities for syntactic tooling, either using the existing parser or even using alternative parsers. 
To celebrate the 50th aniversary of the discovery of NP-complete problems by Stephen Cook, a Symposium was organized by the Fields Institute. Scott Aaronson gave a talk on the the role of physics in solving NP hard problems and it is a fascinating account. 
Apache Storm 2.0 has been released with better performance, new features, and integration with external systems. It has also had its core features rewritten in Java.
Udacity recently announced its School of Cloud Computing and its first two Nanodegree programs - Cloud Developer and Cloud DevOps start on June 11, which is also the last day for enrollment in their inaugural presentations.
Mozilla is the organization that has seemed the most committed to a free and open web. So the very idea that there could be a paid version of Firefox is potentially disturbing.
Salto is a tiny bouncing robot that proves that there is more than one way to build a robot. You can't help but think of an enthusiastic cartoon character as you watch Salto bounce along. 
A look at the ENIAC Operating Manual, published 75 years ago this month, reveals just how difficult it was to program the world's first electronic general-purpose computer and how frustrating it must have been for its programmers. 
The FSF Licensing & Compliance Lab recently refreshed its page which gives guidance and recommendations about free software licenses and has added two new licenses to its non-free list. 
Apple is pulling up the drawbridge on its App Store and starting to defend it against all-comers. This would be almost funny if it wasn't so serious. 
In response to requests from users the new major version of GitHub Desktop has two new features whose names - stashing and rebasing - make sense once you know how they work. It also supports sending emojis in commit messages. 
TypeScript 3.5 has been released with faster type-checking and incremental builds, as well as smart select when expanding text selections in the editor.