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Every day for over 10 years I Programmer has had new material written by programmers, for programmers. Each week our digest gives a handy summary of the latest content, which this week includes an exploration of DoEvents and Microtasks in JavaScript and the start of an extended look at Modern Java With NetBeans And Swing. To receive this digest automatically by email, sign up for our weekly newsletter.
August 15 - 21, 2019
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DoEvents is generally regarded as a construct to be avoided. Like many such feared ideas it is only to be feared if you don't understand it. Correctly used it can be a simplification. This extract from my recently published book JavaScript Async: Events Callbacks, Promises & Async/Await explains async and await makes DoEvents useful.
Here we tell you how to get started with modern Java development in the shortest possible time. The approach uses NetBeans and Swing and all of the resources used are free to download and use.
CROKAGE, which stands for Crowd Knowledge Answer Generator, is a fledgling tool that finds answers from Stack Overflow Q & A threads that have both relevant code and succinct explanations.
The latest version of Git, the distributed version control system, has been released with around 500 changes, including two new sub-commands that are designed to provide an experimental alternative to git checkout. The git switch and git restore sub-commands are designed to make it clear whether the intention is to change files or to change branches.
Open source projects are increasingly important. But when you don't sell your software you generally don't have an advertising budget so how can you let your potential users, and potential contributors, know about it? 
A security audit of Kubernetes has been made available in an open source format. The project reviewed the security of Kubernetes, and produced a threat model alongside the security review.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an offline implementation of Scratch 3.0 than runs under Raspbian Buster and performs best on the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4. 
Perhaps the "for $10" part is hype as that is just the cost of the webcam used in the tracking system, but it is low cost. Using acoustic meta-materials a team has managed to focus a beam of sound that can be delivered to a single person.
The idea of analysis by synthesis has been around for a long time, but it is only now being applied to computer vision. Could this be the missing component that makes AI able to see like we do? 
There's a problem for applications based on Visual Basic for all Windows machines that have installed the cumulative updates for August. The issue, raised by Microsoft, says that apps may stop responding if they use VB6, VBA, or VB Scripting Edition. 
Yes, Apache is worth $20 billion by its own valuation of the software it offers for free. But what price can you realistically put on open source code? 
PyTorch 1.2 has been released with a new TorchScript API offering fuller coverage of Python. The new release also has expanded ONNX export support and a standard nn.Transformer module.
Newly launched Extension Monitor has explored the metrics of the Chrome Web Store and came up with some staggering statistics.
Apple is increasing its support for security researchers with special iPhones offering deeper access, and an increase in the upper limit paid to bug finders.