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Programmer's Python - Default Methods
Mike James

Custom attribute access - wonderful but what is it for? You can find out how to implement default methods and more in this extract from my book on Python objects.

Taking the time to tune your SQL server can deliver big performance improvements and bring with it a whole flood of other benefits that make it entirely worthwhile. Here are words of wisdom from an expert.

 When is a web browser not standards-based? When it's made by Apple. Is it right for a browser maker to decide which standards to implement? Apple is firmly of the opinion that it can pick and choose.

The co-founder of Redis, Salvatore Sanfilippo, aka antirez, has announced he's stepping down from his role as a maintainer of the open source project that provides a widely used  in-memory key–value database.

Firefox 78 includes a new RegExp evaluator, bringing it up to date with the requirements of ECMAScript 2018, and enhanced support for WebAssembly.

Visual Studio Code has a new extension to improve Python support. Pylance adds fast, static type checking, autocomplete, and live type information about symbols among other features to the existing Python extension in VSCode. 

This week the Udacity School of Cloud Computing is opening its classrooms for a third nanodegree. The new addition, which prepares you for the role of Cloud Architect, is at advanced level. Udacity's two existing cloud-related nanodegree programs restart on the same date.

After Perl 6's renaming to Raku, acknowledging that it really is another language, Perl can now use number 7 without fear. It already has claimed the newly freed territory with the announcement that Perl 5.32 with more modern and sensible defaults is to be Perl 7.

Festo builds some amazing things and it has just released information on its new Bionic Swift, which has to be seen to be believed.

JetBrains is hosting a Java Technology Day on Friday July 10th with ten hour-long sessions from industry leaders. Register now to get instructions to join this virtual event which will be using GoToWebinar as its streaming platform.

There's a new release of the scripting language Lua, five years after the previous update. Version 5.4 brings improved garbage collection, support for to-be-closed variables and a new implementation of math.random.

Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that can reveal the most expensive lines of code in your application and provides recommendations for improving code quality. 

Oracle has released an open source version of their Coherence in-memory data grid product. Coherence is a Java-based distributed cache and in-memory data grid designed to offer high availability, high scalability and low latency.