The Pico W has WiFi and getting started is easier than you might think from the documentation. But how do you get connected? This isn't a matter of only connect - there is more to do! This is an extract from our latest book all about the Pico/W in C.

jQuery has some interesting ways of doing things and one that you cannot afford to miss is the function queue. It is a really great idea and once you understand it you will wonder how you ever did without it.

More than one in two developers is considering job hopping with the next year while talent retention has become the top issue on  technical hiring companies' priority list. These are among the findings of CodinGame's 2023 survey of developers and recruiters which also explores preferences for skills assessment.

It isn't surprising to find the creator of a language defending the language they created and so it is with the latest paper from Bjarne Stroustrup. Is it fair for the NSA to tell programmers to stay away from C and C++ and prefer C#, Go, Java Ruby and Swift?

Telerik has been updated with new components for Blazor, .NET MAUI, and WinForms, as well as support for .NET 7 and accessibility improvements.

Couchbase has announced that Capella, the fully managed service version of its distributed NoSQL database that includes mobile and IoT application services, now supports Microsoft Azure.

SourceBuddy is a Java library that compiles and loads dynamically generated Java source code. This has the advantage of providing Java with an eval facility such as those found in interpreted languages.

Microsoft has announced an updated version of the .NET Community Toolkit, a collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers. The updated version adds some features requested by users, and has much faster versions of the MVVM Toolkit source generators.

In the latest video from Boston Dynamics, Atlas makes a convincing show of working on a construction site - although the footage does include a feat of gymnastics that would certainly not be appropriate in such a setting.

Google Season of Docs allows open source organizations to apply for a grant of between and  $5,000 - $15,000 USD to help improve their documentation. Selected organizations use their grant to directly hire a technical writer to complete their documentation project.

Software Developer is again top of the U.S. News and World Report's annual best jobs rankings and while GlassDoor's Best Paces To Work 2023 includes lots of tech companies, Meta and Apple are noticeable by their absence

Spin is a new open source framework for building and running cloud microservices with WebAssembly which run on the Fermyon Cloud. Fermyon has also released an SDK for . NET.

The latest version of Android Studio, Electric Eel, has been released with updates and new features in design, build & dependencies, emulators & devices, and IntelliJ.

Author: Bradley Smith
Publisher: No Starch
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1718502482
Audience: Developers working in DevOps
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

Subtitled 'A hands-on survival guide, this book aims to provide software engineers and developers with the basics necessary to thrive in a modern application stack.

This book starts off by showing how to build a simple app using Spring Boot, and then shows how to secure, test, bundle, and deploy it to production. Greg L. Turnquist then looks at how to go "native" and release using GraalVM. Later chapters explore reactive programming and get a taste of scalable web controllers and data operations. The book goes into detail about GraalVM native images and deployment, showing how to secure an application using both routes and method-based rules.

This book sets out to teach the R skills needed to become a data analyst. Scott McCoy starts with just the parts of the R language relevant to data analysis before moving on to hen,the use of R with the tidyverse package to get, clean, prepare, analyze, and visualize data at a professional level. By the end of the book readers will be creating linear regression models and classification models and using them to make predictions. This book contains three realistic analyses that use real-world data.

This thoroughly revised second edition of the book introduces the new features and functionality added to the most recent versions of Mathematica using real-world examples and discusses new topics related to machine learning, big data, finance economics, and physics. As suggested by the subtitle "The Wolfram Language in the Real World", José Guillermo Sánchez León introduces examples that strike a balance between relevance and difficulty in terms of Mathematica syntax, allowing readers to incrementally build up their Mathematica skills as they go through the chapters.