Feature Articles

Good Reads In Applied Programming Theory And Techniques
Kay Ewbank

In Programmer's Bookshelf we provide recommendations for books that are keepers - ones you want to have on hand for those times when you want some information that you can rely on or you want to read around a topic so that you are properly informed.

One of the great mysteries of WPF is the strangely named "Dependency Properties". In this chapter we learn how dependency properties really work by creating a custom dependency property.

News

Rust Is A Top Twenty Language
03 Jun | Harry Fairhead

Yes, yes it's all nonsense, but it's fun and has some sort of correlation with something and if you are a Rust fan, count me in, you can use it to browbeat others - Rust is in TIOBE's top twenty languages! 

A little later in the year than usual, we have the results of the annual Stack Overflow Survey. Because of the number of responses it receives we tend to treat this survey as a census of the global developer population and this is its 10th edition, which adds to its stature. 

In partnership with Hack Club, GitHub has announced Summer of Making, a new free remote, student summer program bringing the science camp experience right to students’ doors for teenagers age 13-18. 

TypeScript has been updated with improvements centred on performance, polish, and stability. The compiler and editing experience have been worked on to improve speed.  

It is time for Android 4. Something to look forward to and now it's here - not a decimal point upgrade but a full unit. So what's so good?

Google has released an offline emulator for Cloud Spanner, its globally-distributed, and strongly consistent database service built for the cloud. The emulator is designed to make Cloud Spanner more accessible.

Spot, Boston Dynamics first commercial robot, is finding new roles as a sheep dog in New Zealand, a park warden in Singapore and as a nursing auxiliary in Massachusetts. Good dog.

Well what a surprise! Any C or C++ programmer will tell you that mismanaging memory is the biggest problem that they have. But 70% of all security problems down to memory - that might be more than expected. 

Microsoft is open sourcing Fluid Framework, its development platform for collaborative ways to work with documents. Fluid Framework was first announced at the 2019 Ignite conference, and has grown in popularity.

edX has announced a new MicroBachelor's credential. This time in Data Science from Rice University. 

RStudio has been updated with improved security, a real-time spell checker, and big improvements for sight-impaired developers. The Pro version has also been updated so it can be used as a client for RStudio Server Pro.