Serverless computing offers a powerful and scalable way of deploying applications to the cloud. By using AWS Lambda, developers can focus on writing code instead of managing infrastructure. Here we go through the steps of deploying an application to AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework.

Binary arithmetic is easy, so easy a computer can do it, but what about negative numbers? This is altogether more tricky and isn't just a matter of putting a negative sign in front of the number - although that is one way to do it..

Google is keen on Rust and a recent blog post attempts to dismiss some of the bad things you may have heard about it.

The Stack Overflow Survey reveals the programming languages that are most used, those that developers most want to use and those that are the highest paid. And on the subject of pay, median salary increased by 11% since last year for professional developers, but by a smaller percentage for the most popular languages.

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the formation of the Open VSX Working Group with the aim of managing and accelerating the take up of the Open VSX Registry as a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace.

Hasura has announced Hasura DDN, an edge network that automatically reroutes client requests to the closest Hasura instance, minimizing round-trip time and reducing latency.

Acryl Data has announced a new module for its data catalog platform. Acryl Observe will give users a single platform for data observability, governance, and discovery. Acryl Data is the main company behind the open source DataHub Project, the most widely-used open source metadata platform and data catalog and largest metadata community in the world.

Google has released a learning path for Generative AI. It's free and self paced and will introduce you to what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods.

Dingo is a quadruped robot, from Australia, intended for research and educational purposes. Dingo resembles Boston Dynamics' Spot but at a small scale and a tiny fraction of the price. With a 3D-printed body and a Raspberry Pi as its computer, it is fully open source and well-documented to allow you to fork it.

Open 3D Engine, or O3DE for short, is a state of the art open source game dev engine. Its Foundation, O3DF in cooperation with the Rochester Institute of Technology, announced the funding of a team of students who will build a commercial game with 03DE, in an attempt to shape the game development landscape of the future.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that it has become a partner of edX in order to bring its courses targeted at teachers and educators to a larger audience around the world.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new way to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during web checkout.

Microsoft has introduced DeviceScript, an open source subset of TypeScript intended for use with low-resource microcontroller-based devices on the Internet of Things (IoT).

Author: Mike McGrath
Publisher: Easy Steps
Date: 9 Jun. 2023
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-1840789980
Audience: Would-be R programmers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Mike James
R is a good language for data analysis, but so many books try to teach you the analysis rather than the R.

The latest edition of Murach’s classic SQL Server book teaches the SQL statements that every database developer should know. In each chapter Joel Murach features clear examples, easy-to-understand explanations, best practices, and helpful tips.

This textbook, subtitled "Fundamental Algorithms in Python" provides a comprehensive, but tutorial, introduction to robotics, computer vision, and control. Peter Corke's light but informative conversational style weaves text, figures, mathematics, and lines of code into a narrative that covers robotics and computer vision, both separately and together as robotic vision.

This book looks at the processes and habits of highly creative individuals and discover how to build creativity into your programming practice. Wouter Groeneveld introduces seven domains of creative problem solving and teaches practical techniques that apply those principles to software development. Hand-drawn illustrations, reflective thought experiments, and brain-tickling example problems are used to get the creative juices flowing. and readers can track their progress against a scientifically validated Creative Programming Problem Solving Test.