Pins, GPIO Pins are the basis for all of IoT and in this very first extract from our latest book on using GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi in Python, we look at how to get started.

The name of IBM occurs time and time again in any look back over the important events of computing.  It is almost as if the company was a single creative force pushing the development of computing. Thomas J Watson was the first of its guiding lights and is generally considered to be the Father of IBM.

Google's system language Go is ranked #8 in the TIOBE Index for February 2024. This is the third time it has entered the Top 10. However, it is now in the highest position it has ever had date.

JetBrains is running an Academy AI Festival that they describe as a fusion of hands-on learning and inspiring challenges that will provide inspiration for innovation and will advance your understanding of machine learning and AI. The online event includes an AI Hackathon with prizes for the winners.

Google has released Dart 3.3 with experimental support for applications compiled to WebAssembly, along with new extension types and a revamped JavaScript interop model.

From now until the end of February edX is offering a saving of up to 30% on some of its expert-led courses and program bundles, which is a good incentive for going from thinking about enrolling to actually signing up.

pgxman is a package manager like npm, but instead of Javascript packages, it is for PostgreSQL extensions. It detects and streamlines extension operations and looks after dependency management, installation and uninstallation, based on the local development environment.

Android 15 Developer Preview has just been released by the Android team with features including partial screen sharing and the latest version of the Privacy Sandbox.

The ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award honors research with long-lasting influence, which have had significant impacts on systems security and privacy. The 2023 award in respect of a paper by Marten van Dijk and others about Path ORAM was made at the recent ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

February 15, 1924 was the day on which the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co was renamed as International Business Machines. It was just two days before the 50th birthday of Thomas J Watson Senior, making 17 February 2024 the 150th anniversary of the birth of the man known as the Father of IBM.

This year's Google Season of Docs has been announced, and as usual will provide direct grants to open source projects to improve their documentation and give professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source.

Anaconda has announced that it is joining the AI Alliance. Anaconda is best known as a provider of open-source distributions of Python and R for scientific computing.

Stanchion is an open-source extension that adds columnar storage capabilities to SQLite, rendering it efficient for analytical reporting.

Author: Maarten Dalmijn
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780137381920
Audience: Scrum developers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

Over the years I've read a lot of books about agile development and Scrum, and most concentrate on the methodology rather than what you're trying to achieve. This book is a refreshing change because it concentrates on the end result and how to use Scrum to achieve it.

The Raspberry Pi makes an ideal match for the Internet of Things, and the GPIO Zero library is the official way to use Python with the GPIO and other devices. In this book Harry Fairhead and Mike James look at how to use it to interface to fundamental IoT devices from LEDs and buzzers to servos and stepper motors and several off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi add-ons.

This book is for programmers who want to enhance their understanding of asynchronous programming, especially those experienced in VM'ed or interpreted languages like C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, and Go.  Using functional examples, Carl Fredrik Samson simplifies the concepts, exploring goroutines, fibers, futures, and callbacks.

Many revolutionary impossibility theorems reveal profound properties of logic, computation, fairness and the universe. To fully appreciate these theorems and their impact on mathematics and beyond, you must understand their proofs. In this book Dan Gusfield presents these proofs for a broad, lay audience, reworked to contain less jargon and notation, and more background, intuition, examples, explanations, and exercises.