TLDR is a plugin for the popular JetBrains IDEs that explains what a piece of code does in natural English. It's a big productivity boon for developers.

The whole of the JavaScript language is built on one central data structure - the associative array. Objects in JavaScript are just associative arrays and this causes a lot of confusion at first. But the fact of the matter is that the associative array is used to build every other type of data structure in JavaScript. 

Ludo.ai has added a new market analysis feature to its game research and design assistant, along with updates to its game image generator. 

A beta release of Kotlin 1.8 is available with improvements support for Xcode 14, compatibility with Gradle 7.3, and new experimental functions for JVM. 

Udacity has a special offer in time for the holidays - when hopefully you'll have some time to take advantage of it. The deal is 70% off across all its programs when you pay in advance. So what to choose. How about C++? 

TriggerMesh has announced Shaker, an open source alternative to AWS EventBridge. TriggerMesh is a provider of a cloud native integration platform. 

The final part of the Google Cloud Computing Foundations Professional Certificate is now available on the edX platform. It looks at managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud. 

Edge Delta is an observability automation platform that developers can use to get a picture of application and service behavior.  A free version of its software that can be used to monitor applications running in Kubernetes has been released. 

Yes I know we have all seen enough visualizations of sorting algorithms to last a lifetime - which is how long a bubble sort generally takes. But it's the holiday season and sorting is one programmer way to create a tree. 

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest. It summarizes the week's news together with the week's book review and new titles selected for Book Watch Archive. This week we have a further extract from Programmer's Python: Async in which Mike James looks at process-based parallelism, which has the advantage of no GIL problems.

SadServers is a playground where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers. Besides sharpening your troubleshooting skills, it is also suitable for practicing for SRE/DevOps interviews.

It's that mug time of year and what better than a new endpoint for your favourite algorithm oil... we have some for your consideration. This first one reflects how I feel most of the time and not only when I'm coding - debugging, refactoring and documenting. 

It's December 1st - the day on which both Google and NORAD take the wraps off their Santa Trackers that have been in hibernation since the start of the year. Both have a new mini game for kids each day until Christmas Eve plus plenty more activities, both fun and educational, for the whole of December. 

AWS Glue has been updated with updated engines and support for Pandas. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that Amazon says makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning and application development. 

Author:  Tristan Needham
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Pages: 616
ISBN: 978-0198534464
Print: 0198534469
Kindle: B0BNKJTJK1
Audience: The mathematically able and enthusiastic
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Mike James
What's complex about complex analysis?

This book is aimed at people wanting to get started in programming. Ted Hart-Davis and Guy Hart-Davis walk readers through Python step by clearly illustrated step, from writing their very first Python code in a terminal window or the VS Code app through to creating their own lists, dictionaries, and custom classes.

This accessible guide for beginner-to-intermediate programmers has been extensively revised in this seventh edition to accommodate the latest changes and additions introduced by C# 11 and .NET  7. Mark J. Price covers the concepts, real-world applications, and latest features of C# 11 and .NET 7, with hands-on exercises using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code.

This book offers an ideal starting place for learning the languages that make technology go. Chris Minnick gets you started with a helpful explanation of how coding works and how it's applied in the real-world before setting you on a path toward writing code for web building, mobile application development, and data analysis. This book helps you dig into languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python as you learn to design websites, create web and mobile apps, and analyze and visualize data.