Actually using asyncio to do standard network tasks is made easier by its specific network-oriented classes and objects. Find out how to download a web page in this extract from my new book Programmer's Python: Async .

Web applications are complex systems, and web application security must use multiple defensive layers and security controls at different stages of the development lifecycle. We look at a range of tools, demystifing their acronyms and those of the attack methods.

Stack Overflow has conducted a new survey looking into the reasons why tech professionals change jobs. Better pay is the top motivator for considering a new opportunity, but there are  other factors.

Sorting algorithms - surely nothing new? However Python 3.11 has adopted a new sorting algorithm that is better than TimSort.

Google has announced the general availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, first introduced earlier in the year at Google I/O. Google describes the fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service as providing a powerful option for modernizing the most demanding enterprise database workloads.

GitHub has announced two security improvements based on its secret scanning feature. The improvements are designed to reduce the problems caused by stolen or compromised credentials, which were the most common cause of data breaches in 2022.

The new versions of both Spring Framework and Spring Boot come with new baseline requirements. They also have great new features. Let's look into them.

The next version of Dart will be "a fully sound null safe language" according to the Dart development team, and in order to achieve this several historical Dart language and SDK artifacts are being removed, including removing support for running without sound null safety.

If you are looking for a programmer present this holiday season, there is one book, or set of books, that should be top of any list... Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. And as this year saw the publication of the long awaited Volume 4B, this is likely to be on the wish list of those who already have a boxed set.

The recent Pwn2Own event held at ZDI's offices in Toronto was extended to 4 days to accommodate 26 contestants and teams attempting to exploit 66 targets across multiple categories. By the end there had been bounty payouts totalling $989,750 USD for 63 new bugs.

One of the most generally felt consequences of the great chip shortages of 2022 is the lack of Pi - Raspberry Pi to be precise. Now the good news is that they should be back in stock soon and the situation is improving. Plus the Pi Zero can now be bought in quantity.

WebFX offers a new way to develop modern web-based Java applications with rich desktop-like GUIs. How is that possible?

Yugabyte has released a new version of its cloud-native distributed SQL database, along with improvements to Yugabyte Managed.

Author: George Finney
Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 224
ISBN: 978-1119884842
Audience: General
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

What's the best way to learn about how to build a zero trust environment? This book takes the route of telling a story about how an organization is attacked and fights back. 

This book sets out to explain what the Node.js runtime has to offer and how you can unlock its full potential to create frontend-focused web apps. Florian Rappl begins with the basics and internals of Node.js, before looking at how to divide code into modules and packages. Later chapters cover the most popular package managers and their uses and how to use TypeScript and other JavaScript variants with Node.js.

Subtitled "Idiomatic Python for the Impatient Programmer", this book is a thorough introduction to every feature of the Python language for programmers who are impatient to write production code. Instead of revisiting elementary computer science topics. Jason C. McDonald dives deep into idiomatic Python patterns so readers can write professional Python programs in no time.

Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", this book sets out to show that computer code is the result of very human decisions, ones we all live with when we use social media, take photos or drive our cars. Torie Bosch and Kelly Chudler look at how everything from law enforcement to space exploration relies on code written by people who, at the time, made choices and assumptions that would have long-lasting, profound implications for society.