Bytes are at the most primitive of data type and hence universal but can you manipulate them? Find out how it all works in this extract from my new book Programmer's Python: Everything is Data .

Improve the overall security of your apps and reduce the risk of data breaches and cyber attacks by implementing two-factor authentication. Here's what you need to know.

Need we say more? Python for Artificial Intelligence is a match made in heaven. This free and self-paced course materializes this relationship.

Incensed by a change in Stack Overflow's policy, which effectively leaves moderators unable to combat misleading AI-generated answers, volunteer moderators have gone on strike.

Appdome has announced a pre-built integration between its Cyber Defense Automation platform and GitLab as well as a new Build-to-Test option to enable mobile developers to streamline the testing of cybersecurity features in mobile apps.

Reddit's decision to charge apps for API access which come into force in two week's time could see the disappearance many of the mobile apps that have contributed to Reddit's success. By way of protest many popular subreddits will go dark, i.e. be accessible only to members, for 48 hours starting on June 12th.

Google has announced a tool for customizing existing machine learning (ML) models to work with your data and applications. MediaPipe Model Maker provides a faster alternative to building and training a new ML model.

Microsoft has added support for .NET MAUI and Azure Functions to its .NET Upgrade Assistant, The assistant helps Visual Studio 2022 developers upgrade .NET applications to the latest version of .NET.

The shortage of Pis has been a real problem. At the end of last year we were promised that the situation would be easing in the new year, but it didn't noticeably change. Now we have news that you can have ten Pi Zeros and they are in stock! Is the drought about to be over at last?

This video charting the history and development of the MicroMouse competition, together with an explanation of the  strategies for finding the shortest path, opens with footage from the latest All Japan MicroMouse contest. It really deserves its title of "The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth". Watch and be amazed at the speed of these tiny robots.

Microsoft has released a preview version of Dev Home, a new control center for Windows that makes it easy to connect to GitHub and configure cloud development environments like Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces.

Udacity has announced a new course every day for the last fortnight. Each one provides you with job ready skills in less than a month and for a limited time you can take advantage of a 50% discount.

NVIDIA has released open-source software aimed at helping enterprises keep applications built on large language models aligned with their safety and security requirements.

Microsoft has announced Fabric, a new data analytics product that combines elements of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into one unified software as a service (SaaS) platform.

Author: Florian Rappl
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Date: November 2022
Pages: 208
ISBN: 978-1804618295
Audience: Node.js developers
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Ian Elliot
Modern development - what else is there?

This book shows how to use Rails to produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly - you concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Sam Ruby and Dave Thomas start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. Later chapters show how to seamlessly incorporate JavaScript, send and receive emails, manage background jobs with ActiveJob, and build real-time features using WebSockets and ActionCable.

This book looks at ways of optimizing SQL queries to save maximum time and cost and provide the query efficiently. Andy Vickler concentrates on advanced query optimization, and assumes an adequate amount of background knowledge from readers. Simplified code is provided that can be used by the readers as a reference with the aim of allowing readers to get onto practical implementation immediately.

In this book, subtitled "Adventures in Software Development", Jim Highsmith, co-author of the original Agile Manifesto and author of many books, tackles the evolution and revolution of software development, embellishes them with personal experiences, from the Apollo moon mission to modern digital transformations, and introduces the adventurous pioneers--from structured era developer Ken Orr to Agile methodologist Kent Beck--who strived to make the world a better place, by building better software.