So you know what recursion is, but do you know why it is? This is what this extract from Programmer's Guide To Theory is all about.

Don’t raise an exception – EVER! Exceptions are, in practice the lazy programmer's way out of a hole. It would be better not to dig the hole in the first place, but if you do find yourself in such a hole then the advice is to stop digging and climb out - not drop someone else into the hole by throwing an exception.

Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, an extension to the Jetpack Compose UI framework from JetBrains, now in Alpha, makes it possible to build Android, Desktop, and Web UIs with the same artifacts from a single codebase.

During August, Coursera is offering 25% off the first month of some of its beginner-level Professional Certificates that could help you embark on a new career. 

As the world becomes more data-driven, SQL is increasingly moving from a "nice to have" skill to a first class requirement for disciplines like Data Science, Machine Learning and Business Intelligence. Here's a free resource for learning SQL right in your browser.

Version 4.0 of Apache Cassandra, the open source NoSQL distributed database, has finally arrived with improvements including much faster performance and a promise that this release is the most stable yet.

Triton is a new, Python-like, language from OpenAI intended to ease programming for the GPU by providing an alternative to CUDA.

Microsoft has updated Xamarin.Essentials and has revealed its plans for Xamarin.Forms once .NET MAUI Essentials arrives this fall. Alongside more details of MAUI, Microsoft says it will end updates to the Xamarin mobile app development platform in November 2022.

Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts end up in the environment. BeachBot, or “BB” for short, can spot cigarette butts, pluck them out of the sand, and dispose of them in a safe bin.

Data from HackerRank’s skill assessment platform shows that the next generation of in-demand talent is coming from universities you may not expect, such as New Jersey Institute of Technology, Oregon State University and University of Texas.

Jetpack Compose is now fully launched and is the preferred way to create an Android UI. Greeted as a glorious day by some, for me it is simply proof that the inmates have taken over the asylum.

GitHub has announced a governance framework for open source projects. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is aimed at both large and small projects, and is open source so can be modified.

Apache Impala 4 has been released with many improvements including support for multi-threading across all operators, and support for all TPC-DS 99 queries without manual rewrites. The new version has also improved authentication and authorization.