You can use MicroPython to directly access the hardware via registers. In this example we find out how to make waves - sine waves. This is an extract from Programming the ESP32 in MicroPython, the latest title in the I Programmer Library.

Mastering the art of writing code documentation is a vital skill for every software developer. This article explores the significance of code documentation in developing maintainable and efficient software and offers valuable tips for creating effective code documentation.

The results of GitLab's 2023 Global DevSecOps Report show the increasing uptake of DevSecOps methodologies. While AI tools are being rapidly adopted by developers for code checking and testing purposes, their security counterparts are worried that AI might threaten their jobs or introduce hard-to-find errors and make their jobs more difficult.

... well not quite. There have been similar headlines elsewhere, but the truth is more subtle and we certainly don't have a rival to "Quicksort".

CRaC is a novel technique that makes the JVM faster to start.
Azul's JDK build has just added support for it. Here are the details.

Amazon has announced AWS Glue Data Quality, a new feature of AWS Glue that measures and monitors the data quality of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) based data lakes, data warehouses, and other data repositories.

Stability AI has released its Stable Animation SDK, a toolkit designed for artists and developers to implement the Stability models in generating their animations.

Microsoft has announced Fluent 2, an updated version of its design system that is described as enabling more seamless collaboration and creativity.

Raspberry Pi aficionado and prolific YouTuber, Jeff Geerling takes a guided tour of the factory in Pencoed where Raspberry Pis are built, or should that be "baked"? Among the work force on the assembly line is a team of robots.

The 2023 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award has been has been conferred on Kunle Olukotun, a Professor at Stanford University, for his contributions to multicore processor design.

Vercel has announced AI Accelerator, a program for AI builders and early stage startups, along with AI Playground, an environment in which developers can experiment with AI technologies. Applications for the Vercel AI Accelerator are open until June 30.

Prompt Engineering is the latest topic that is proliferating online classes, with providers eager to join in, catch up with and go further than each other. Here is a new offering from a pedigree source.

Apple has introduced the SwiftData framework as a way of making it easier to persist data using declarative code. The framework is integrated with SwiftUI and can be used to query and filter data using regular Swift code.

Author: Jack A. Hyman
Publisher: For Dummies
Pages: 416
ISBN: 978-1119898061
Print:1119898064
Kindle: B0BNWG1HYK
Audience: Azure novices?!
Rating: 1 or 4.5 (see review)
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

This book aims to provide a gentle yet thorough introduction to Microsoft Azure, how does it fare?

The purpose of the book is to reveal what you can do with the ESP32's GPIO lines together with widely used sensors, servos and motors and ADCs. After covering the GPIO, outputs and inputs, events and interrupts, Harry Fairhead and Mike James give you hands-on experience of PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), the SPI bus, the I2C bus and the 1-Wire bus.

This book, subtitled "Attacking Next Generation APIs", is aimed at anyone interested in learning how to break and protect GraphQL APIs with the aid of offensive security testing. Dolev Farhi and Nick Aleks say that penetration testers, security analysts, and software engineers will all learn how to attack GraphQL APIs, develop hardening procedures, build automated security testing into development pipeline, and validate controls, all with no prior exposure to GraphQL required.

This book is a guide to building 2D games using the pygame library in Python. Mike Gold starts with a step-by-step guide to setting up Python and pygame, followed by an overview of the Python programming concepts necessary to understand the games presented in the book. The book then takes you through the creation of three games, each one designed to teach you new and essential concepts of game development.