Feature Articles

Creating The Python UI With Tkinter - The Canvas Widget
Mike James

The most powerful of the Tkinter widgets is the canvas. You can use it to create general graphics and it can be used to create custom widgets. It's worth knowing about.

There are moves to bring strong typing into Python and it isn’t a bad idea, but you need to understand type and its role in programming to make good use of it, or to decide if it is essential or optional.

News

Introducing DeepSpeech
29 Apr | Sue Gee

DeepSpeech 0.7.0 is the latest version of Mozilla's open source speech-to-text engine. It was released this week together with new acoustic models trained on American English and a new format for training data that should be faster.

No Google I/O this year, but that doesn't mean that there isn't anything to announce. Yes, I tried for a witty title to let you know that Google's Flutter now claims to have 2 million users. The question is why?

The results of the latest survey of Go developers has been released, with cloud-based development rising along with adoption in sectors outside tech.

Mozilla has updated its bug bounty policy to make it more appealing to security researchers. It has also launched a new website for security researchers, and Firefox bug bounty participants.

Neo4j has released Graph Data Science Framework, a collection of Neo4j products designed to give data scientists tools to work with data containing highly predictive but underutilized relationships and network structures.

Data from Harness, a company which offers Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service startup details the effort and cost involved in building and deploying new applications, including which tools developers prefer, the cost of each deployment and how frequently deployments fail.

The latest resource on Complexity Explorer is an entry level tutorial about preventing pandemics. The Santa Fe Institute is also providing Transmission, an essay series of  complexity science insights into the COVID-19 pandemic.

PyTorch, an optimized tensor library for deep learning using GPUs and CPUs, has been updated with several major new API additions and improvements, along with new and updated libraries.

FreecodeCamp has released this great-sounding class on developing for the AWS platform, which is of interest regardless of whether or not you're looking to get the AWS Associate certificate. We take a detailed look.

Apache Kafka, the big data and data streams platform, has been updated in a new version that adds new metrics and improves security.

GitHub Satellite, the regional extension of GitHub Universe, was held in Berlin last year and Tokyo in 2018. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic it is happening as a virtual event on May 6th.

Books of the Week

Added to Book Watch

• Programming PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages,
  4th Ed (O'Reilly)
• SQL Server 2019 For Developers (Murach)
• Mathematics for Machine Learning (Cambridge University Press)

Full Review

• TensorFlow 2 Pocket Primer (Mercury Learning)
  
  Mike James awarded a rating of 4 out of 5 to this short and useful primer on the topic of TensorFlow 2.