Usually you can just leave the allocation of cores to the operating system, but what if you want to control how they are used? This extract is from my  book on using C in an IoT context.

At first glance this puzzle seems trivial, all you have to do is find a sub-array, in an array of numbers,  that sums to the largest value. It sounds almost too easy to need a solution, let alone an algorithm. But try it and see if you can write a fast and beautiful solution. It is harder than you think.

Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON and JSLint and author of JavaScript: The Good Parts has declared that JavaScript is a smelly language and that we need to move on to a new language. This has evoked a huge response from developers.

Apple was judged to have won its fight with Epic games and yet it keep appealing the decision. The reason is that the ruling contains a poison pill which could be the start of the end of the App store. The latest step is an appeal to the Supreme Court! On what grounds?

A free, self-paced and comprehensive course that will take you from beginner to expert in the topic of Natural Language Processing comes from Hugging Face, a data science platform with a community of data scientists, researchers, and ML engineers who contribute to open source projects.

GitHub Enterprise 3.9 has been released with a new time-based projects view, and secret scanning checks for custom patterns on push.

TLE stands for Trusted Language Extension and DbDev by SupaBase now supports installing them in your PostgreSQL instance, like NPM does for Javascript packages.

Apple has launched a range of software tools for developers to work with Apple Vision Pro, the 'spatial computer' Apple introduced last month at WWDC23.

Its SIGGRAPH time of year again and the Technical Papers video has just been released - and wow! However, this is no laughing matter, in its 50th year never before has the future of computer graphics been so in doubt.

Amazon has released Verified Permissions, a fine-grained permissions management and authorization service for developers to use in applications at any scale. Amazon Verified Permissions was announced in a preview version at re:Invent 2022. It centralizes permissions in a policy store and helps developers use those permissions to authorize user actions within their applications.

A free short course on the concepts behind CD (Continuous Delivery). It is presented by Dave Farley. a software developer who has done pioneering work in DevOps, CD, CI, BDD, TDD and Modern Software Engineering.

Memphis.dev has introduced a message broker designed to support the development of real-time applications. Memphis Cloud is based on the Memphis open source project with added security and features for stateless stream processing at scale.

The world's largest Flutter team outside Google is being created through an acquisition by Very Good Ventures (VGV) of CreateThrive. VGV is a long-standing full-service Flutter consulting firm, while CreateThrive is a mobile and web development firm based in Latin America.

Author:  C.P Gupta and K. K. Goyal
Publisher: Mercury Learning
Pages: 250
ISBN:978-1683925866
Print:1683925866
Kindle: B08CVSHKG3
Audience: General
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book is an introduction to the basics of what a computer is, what software is, and what management information systems do. The rating is for the target audience of people who don't know what's behind the black box. This wouldn't be a book of any interest to developers.

This book, subtitled "High performance techniques for large datasets" sets out Python techniques and libraries to reduce run times, efficiently handle huge datasets, and optimize execution for complex machine learning applications.  Tiago Antao looks at ways of optimizing every part of the Python-based data analysis process, from the pure Python code you write to managing the resources of modern hardware and GPUs.

This book is designed to help developers get up-to-speed in Go fast, to make use of existing knowledge of other languages, and to help developers avoid common mistakes made by Go newcomers. Based on author Mark Bates's and Cory LaNou's Gopher Guides training curricula, this book will allow readers to quickly understand and use Go syntax, core features, and idioms.

In this book, ethical hacker and social engineer FC Barker discusses his sometimes amusing work testing the limits of physical bank security by trying to "steal" money, data, and anything else he can get his hands on. The book explores the secretive world of physical assessments and follows FC Barker as he breaks into banks and secure government locations to identify security flaws and loopholes.