The threat level of cyber attack has never been greater so there is urgent need for incorporating security as an essential part of the software development process. Here's some guidance on how to implement endpoint security.

How did ARPAnet and ALOHAnet lead to Ethernet and go on to form the basis of the Internet we rely on today? Fifty years on, the man responsible, Robert (Bob) Metcalfe is named the recipient of the 2022 Turing Award.

Sidewalk has been a long time coming, but now it seems it is ready for us to test. Initially, it promises free connectivity over 90% of the US, but as the say there's no such thing as a free connection.

There's a free course designed for novices in Kotlin that focuses on the basic concepts of the language. Apart from the content itself, the interesting of this course is that it runs inside Intellij.

Anaconda has released PyScript.com, a free coding platform for creating web applications with data interactivity and computation based on Python.

JetBrains has released WebStorm 2023.1, its IDE customized for JavaScript and TypeScript. The updated version has support for the Astro framework, and TypeScript support for Vue templates.

The Israeli Computer Scientist Jacob Ziv, co-inventor of the lossless file compression methods that were and still are relied on for storing huge amounts of data in the smallest possible number of bits, has died at the age of 91.

JDK 20 is now generally available with many new features that render Java not just relevant to today's requirements but a few steps ahead. Let's find out what's new.

Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel who pioneered microprocessor technology and whose name is known for Moore's Law, passed away on March 24, 2023. The announcement of his death was made jointly by Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the philanthropic organization he founded with his wife in 2000.

The ACM has named Robert Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for leading the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet local-area networking technology. While it is now almost 50 years since Ethernet was first used at Xerox PARC, it remains in use today by almost every computer and connected device.

Apache CloudStack has been updated with a LTS release with a range of new features and improvements including edge zones, autoscaling and a new two-factor authentication framework.

sigstore-java, currently under development but not yet ready for general-purpose use,  is a tool for signing and verifying Java package distributions with Sigstore's keyless signing. This is one more step being taken Sigstore towards securing the software supply chain.

GNU Octave 8.1 has been released with improvements including changes to the graphics backend, better compatibility with Matlab and a number of new and improved functions.

Authors:  Cay S. Horstmann
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pages: 576
ISBN: 9780138052102
Print: 0138052107
Kindle: B0B8RZZBDJ
Audience: Smart programmers wanting in-depth coverage
Rating: 4.8
Reviewer: Mike James

The key to this book is the word "impatient" in the title. What does this mean exactly? 

Subtitled Read, debug, and optimize JVM applications, in this book Laurentiu Spilca demonstrates techniques for code profiling, advanced debugging, and log evaluation to find and fix bugs and performance problems. Spilca teaches code investigation techniques that will help you efficiently understand how Java apps work, how to optimize them, and how to fix the bugs that break them. 

This book presents the theory of digital image processing, and implementations of algorithms using a dedicated library. David Tschumperle, Christophe Tilmant and Vincent Barra present the mathematical theories underlying digital image processing, as well as their practical implementation through examples of algorithms implemented in the C++ language, using the free and easy-to-use CImg library. 

This comprehensive and highly readable textbook teaches how to formally reason about computer programs using an incremental approach and the verification-aware programming language Dafny. K. Rustan M. Leino show students what it means to write specifications for programs, what it means for programs to satisfy those specifications, and how to write proofs that connect specifications and programs.