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March 3 - 9, 2022
Featured Articles
The Trick Of The Mind - Little Languages Arithmetic Mike James
The new book by Mike James on the nature of programming is aimed at programmers and non-programmers alike. In this extract we look at one of the "little" languages - not a full programming language but interesting in what it tells us about programming.
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What Is Asynchronous Programming? Mike James
Asynchronous programming has become very important in the last few years, but many programmers find out about it by doing it. So what exactly is asynchronous programming, why is it necessary and why is it growing in importance?
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Programming News and Views
Chrome 99 Rushes Ahead With New Features 09 Mar | Mike James
Chrome 99 has introduced some new features relevant to programming and left the competition behind - this isn't good.
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Interop 2022 Addresses Browser Compatibility Issues 09 Mar | Ian Elliot
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are jointly involved in Interop 2022, a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most important interoperability pain points on the web platform. The end result is a public metric that will assess progress toward fixing these interoperability issues.
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Apache Isis Adds Non-Public Visibility 08 Mar | Kay Ewbank
Apache Isis has a new milestone release that adds the ability for members and their methods to have non-public visibility. Isis is a framework for developing UIs for domain-driven apps in Java.
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Get Ready For Google Summer Of Code 2022 08 Mar | Sue Gee
There's a new website for Google Summer of Code this year - to take account of its extended remit. GSoC is no longer just for students which means that anyone18 year old and older with spare time this summer who wants to get involved with open source software development can apply to the program to become a contributor.
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New DevOps Credentials From IBM On Coursera 07 Mar | Sue Gee
DevOps skills are poised to be one of the fastest-growing skills in the workforce. IBM has expanded its range of credentials on Coursera with a new beginner-level Specialization and a Professional Certificate for those wanting to embark on a career in DevOps.
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NetBeans 13 Improves PHP And Maven Support 07 Mar | Kay Ewbank
Apache NetBeans has been upgraded. Version 13 has a new default 'light flat' look to the IDE, along with upgraded support for Maven, Gradle and PHP.
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A Slippy Way To Walk 06 Mar | Lucy Black
There is no doubt that we have come on a long way since the first difficult to watch bipedal walkers, but even quadrupeds have their problems. How do you control four limbs on a slippy surface - watch this video and find out.
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Benefits and Risks Of A Trading Platform 04 Mar | M K Akram
Thanks to the internet, millions of people can now make trading decisions on their own. This method is very different from the decade-old habit of hiring a broker who can usually provide you with some guidance. What are the pros and cons?
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Take Stanford's Natural Language Understanding For Free 04 Mar | Nikos Vaggalis
The content of CS224u Natural Language Understanding by Stanford University has been made available in a self-paced version and to anyone for free.
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TypeScript 4.6 Improves Constructors 03 Mar | Kay Ewbank
TypeScript 4.6 has been released with improvements including the ability to have code before super() in constructors, and control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions.
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Census II Lists Critical Application Libraries 03 Mar | Sue Gee
The Linux Foundation has announced the publication of "Census II of Free and Open Source Software - Application Libraries" which identifies more than one thousand of the most widely deployed open source application libraries found from scans of commercial and enterprise applications.
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Books of the Week
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Full Review
Kay Ewbank concludes her review:
Overall, this book reads well, and sounds very plausible. I haven't used the techniques described in it for real, which would be the only true measure of how useful it is, but it rang plenty of bells from past situations. A useful book.
Added to Book Watch
More recently published books can be found in Book Watch Archive.
From the I Programmer Library
Recently published:
Programmers think differently from non-programmers, they see and solve problems in a way that the rest of the world doesn't. In this book Mike James takes programming concepts and explains what the skill involves and how a programmer goes about it. In each case, Mike looks at how we convert a dynamic process into a static text that can be understood by other programmers and put into action by a computer. If you're a programmer, his intent is to give you a clearer understanding of what you do so you value it even more.
Deep C#: Dive Into Modern C# by Mike James
In Deep C#, I Programmer's Mike James, who has programmed in C# since its launch in 2000, provides a “deep dive” into various topics that are important or central to the language at a level that will suit the majority of C# programmers. Not everything will be new to any given reader, but by exploring the motivation behind key concepts, which is so often ignored in the documentation, the intention is to be thought-provoking and to give developers confidence to exploit C#’s wide range of features.
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