Lambda calculus is close to logic and pure maths and it can be difficult to see what it is actually all about in practical terms. So there is a need for a plain-spoken guide suitable for programmers.

The continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is an integral part of modern DevOps practices, enabling software development teams to push code changes more frequently and reliably. As the intricacy and scale of software continue to expand, the necessity for sophisticated practices to effectively manage it is becoming increasingly evident.

Developers are flocking to AI creating an explosion of generative AI activity in open source. The 11th annual Octoverse report, unveiled at last week's GitHub Universe event recorded 65K public generative AI projects built on GitHub in the past year and noted that almost a third of starred open source projects have a maintainer using GitHub Copilot.

.NET 8 has been generally released. This is the latest long term support (LTS) version that will be supported for the next three years. Microsoft says the new version delivers improvements to the performance, stability, and security, as well as platform and tooling enhancements aimed at increasing developer productivity and speed of innovation.

Leporello.js is an interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript with debugging superpowers. Let's look at what makes it different from traditional IDEs.

Grafana Labs has announced new tools to make it easier to analyze application data on Grafana Cloud. The announcements are an Application Observability tool for Grafana Cloud, and Grafana Beyla, the eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation open source project for application observability.

Hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. Version 1.0 is generally available.

OpenAI has announced new and improved models and APIs at its first Developer Day Conference. The company also announced it is reducing pricing for parts of its platform.

Although it didn't launch until 1985, Microsoft Windows was announced in November 1983. It signaled the move for users from the command line to a GUI environment, something that some programmers still resist today.

New activities for this year's Hour of Code have been announced. The focus for 2023,"Creativity with AI", is designed to let students learn about computer science and artificial intelligence.

The board game Othello, also known as Reversi as it played by reversing the colors of black and white disks, has been solved using alpha-beta pruning. Given "perfect play", that is a situation in which neither player makes a mistake, the outcome will always be a draw.

Power up your API testing inside your CI workflow with Step CI, a free open-source tool that has also introduced a paid Support Plan.

GitHub has announced changes to its platform that will use AI "in every step of the developer lifecycle". The intention is to make natural language become the universal programming language. The announcement was made at GitHub Universe.

Author: Dr. John Canning, Alan Broder and Robert Lafore
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: October 2022
Pages: 928
ISBN: 978-0134855684
Audience: Python developers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Mike James
Data structures in Python - a good idea!

With the subtitle "Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight", this book is a field guide to building statistics, machine learning, and powerful artificial intelligence concepts inside the  spreadsheet. In this updated edition, author Jordan Goldmeier shows how to implement data science problems using Excel while exposing how things work behind the scenes.

This book looks at C#'s type system, the foundation upon which all C# programs are built. Steve Love shows how to define and implement value types effectively, and write more performant and robust code. Real-world code examples and test cases throughout are designed to improve your programming with C# and show how best to implement the principles you’re learning.

This full-color guide will help you start creating cloud-based apps and games fast, even if you've never done it before. Rob Miles has revamped the tutorial for beginners providing challenges from debugging to step-by-step Make Something Happen exercises replicated as YouTube videos linked directly from the book.