One of jQuery's attractive features is the way that you can build up chains of commands that look almost like the way you would use a language. This is more generally called a "Fluent Interface" and it isn't difficult to implement in JavaScript.

Open Source databases offer a great alternative to proprietary systems such as SQL Server, but the documentation isn't always as good as you might hope.

Amateurs implementing cryptography are a security problem. Ergo, the IoT has a security problem. Will a more suitable cryptography suite help?

Copilot is GitHub's AI-powered "pair programmer" which uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code in real time in the editor of your choice. Its enterprise version, based on an improved AI model is now available.

This first preview in the release cycle is asking for feedback from the Android community which in turn might initiate multiple iterations within the timeframe allocated. Let's find out what Android 14 has in store.

GitHub has announced that it will remove support for Subversion on GitHub.com in January 2024. A release of GitHub Enterprise Server shortly afterwards will also remove Subversion support. How much will this hurt?

jbom, an open source project hosted by the Eclipse Foundation generates SBOMs from any Java project. Why is that useful?

Apache Kafka has been updated with improvements including the ability to to migrate Kafka clusters from ZK to KRaft mode with no downtime. Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that can be used for building real-time streaming data pipelines between systems or applications.

The Air Ray is a recently highlighted member of Festo's menagerie of bionic robots inspired by the natural world. It derives from Festo's Aqua Ray which is modeled on a manta ray. Marvel at how these automatons move.

When it first launched the Pico W had the hardware to support Bluetooth, but not the sofware. With the very latest SDK update it now supports Bluetooth and the mbedtls crypto library for HTTPS/TLS support.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is 25 years old today. XML was first published as a W3C Recommendation on February 10th 1998, and became ubiquitous in standards such as XSLT and XQuery.

Abraham Lempel, the Israeli computer scientist who is the L in  LZW, has died at the age of 86. His work on lossless data compression algorithms is the basis of the ZIP file format and the many compression technologies in use today.

Microsoft Teams Premium is now officially available at an introductory cost of $7 per user per month. The text messaging app now uses ChatGPT for 'intelligent recap' of meetings.

Git-Sim enables you to visually simulate future Git operations in your own repos. Let's see why this is useful.

Author: Grant Fritchey
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 745
ISBN:978-1484288900
Print:1484288904
Kindle:B0BLYD98SQ
Audience: DBAs & SQL Devs
Rating: 4.7
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare? 

This book is a pragmatic, hands-on guide to creating server-based web applications with Rust. Bastian Gruber shows how to work efficiently using pure Rust, along with important Rust libraries such as tokio for async runtimes, warp for web servers and APIs, and reqwest to run external HTTP requests. 

This book provides readers with a single-source reference to static-single assignment (SSA)-based compiler design. It is the first (and up to now only) book that covers in a deep and comprehensive way how an optimizing compiler can be designed using the SSA form. Edited by Fabrice Rastello and Florent Bouchez Tichadou the book has 24 chapters written by 31 authors and has been 12 years in the making. 

In recent years the development of new classification and regression algorithms based on deep learning has led to a revolution in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analysis. In this book, Philipp Grohs and Gitta Kutyniok present the current mathematical understanding of deep learning methods from the point of view of the leading experts in the field.