Inheritance - is it where it all goes wrong? Find out in this extract from my new book, Deep C#: Dive Into Modern C#.

Venerable Perl, a language that you either love or love to hate, has just had its 34th birthday. In celebration we look at its recent past, the milestones that defined it and look forward to a bright future. 

If you are a programmer then you probably share many of the opinions in this report. Perhaps not all, but enough to mean that you too can see that the circus show that is the Metaverse is just laughable.

Too Good To Miss: This report from May 2021 is typical of the way that robotic technology can do more than just destroy the world. The opposable thumb is supposed to be what made us great, so what could an extra thumb do for us?

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Too Good To Miss: This report from March 2021 is becoming ever more relevant as NFTs and con-artists make ever increasingly false claims about AI and creativity.

Too Good To Miss: This report from April 2021 is so impressive and deserves a second airing. A new video from Festo shows its flock of five BionicSwifts moving gracefully in a coordinated and autonomous manner.

Today we celebrate the birth of Charles Babbage, the man who invented calculating machines that, although they were never realized in his lifetime, are rightly seen as the forerunners of modern programmable computers.

It wouldn't be Christmas without a robot video. Here are two celebrating the holiday spirit featuring some of our familiar robot friends.

It is Christmas Eve and Santa Claus has set off to deliver presents to children around the world. Thanks to NORAD and Google you can track his progress on your smartphone or other computing device.

GNU Nano 6 has been released with improvements including the ability to hide the title bar and status bar to provide more editing space. GNU nano is a command line text editor for Unix and Linux that aims to be simple and easy to use.

... but you can watch almost of the previous ones on YouTube. In fact, there are over 100 Donald Knuth lectures on the Stanford channel but if it's the Christmas Tree ones you are interested in there are some 20 of them each around an hour long.

A survey of cannabis use by programmers reveals that over a third had tried programming while using cannabis and almost one in five do so at least once a month, motivated by perceived enhancement to their ability to get into a programming zone.