Your first module is always hardest to get working. Not if you follow our instructions. This is an extract from the new book by Mike James that helps you combine the speed and power of C with the versatility and ease-of-programming of Python.

Efficient routing of messages is critical in IoT environments, where timely and accurate communication between devices can have a significant impact on system performance. This is where an MQTT broker can help. Here we show you how to implement one using EMQX.

Stack Overflow and Google Cloud have announced a partnership to deliver new gen AI-powered capabilities to developers through the Stack Overflow platform, Google Cloud Console, and Gemini for Google Cloud.

I have written about Apple's approach to complying with regulation, characterizing it as malicious compliance. It also seems that Apple is a master of creating the unintended consequence and letting it enemies, i.e. the regulators, suffer as a result.

Google has announced that the latest version of Android Studio, Iguana, is now stable. It has version control system support in App Quality Insights and new built-in support for creating baseline profiles for Jetpack Compose apps.

Ibis 8.0 has been released with stream processing backends. The new release includes Apache Flink as a streaming backend, and RisingWave, a streaming database backend. There's also a new batch backend with Exasol, bringing the total number of backends Ibis supports to 20.

Google has announced the general availability of Firestore Multiple Databases, which can be used to manage multiple Firestore databases within a single Google Cloud project.

Generative AI is on the loose, getting into business and commerce as well as into art, poetry and coding. Already useful, it  will become ever more useful as long as we use it properly. Coursera has training for everybody - and for developers and data scientists in particular.

Quantum specialists Qilimanjaro is the winner of this year's Four Years From Now competition. The award was made at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

This year's Call for Code challenge has been launched with a theme of the use of generative AI technology for solutions that aim to improve equitable access to resources and opportunities for historically underserved and vulnerable people.

The recorded session of the premier conference for technical developers and users interested in exploring the potential of WebAssembly are now online.

The developers of the Bun JavaScript runtime have released Bun Shell, a new experimental embedded language and interpreter in Bun that lets you run cross-platform shell scripts in JavaScript and TypeScript.

The White House is urging developers to adopt memory safe programming languages, suggesting Rust would be a safer choice than C or C++.

Author: Itzik Ben-Gan
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Pages: 608
ISBN: 978-0138102104
Audience: T-SQL developers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

Itzik Ben-Gan is a highly respected Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and the earlier editions of this book were already very good. This edition has been updated to cover recent versions of SQL Server, including SQL Server 2022, and Azure SQL Database.

Designed as an advanced textbook in which Mark Gregoire covers the features of the new C++ standard, codenamed C++23, this book offers case studies with working code that’s been tested on Windows and Linux.

This book shows how to use the Delphi IDE and programming language coupled with the FireMonkey library, to develop modern desktop and mobile apps with high speed and natively compiled efficiency from a single source code base. Marco Cantù and Pawel Glowacki show how to build apps with server-side services, parallel programming, and database access.

This book focuses on the development of artificial intelligence in video games. Paul Roberts brings together ideas, tricks, and cutting-edge techniques from 20 of the top game AI professionals and researchers from around the world. The techniques discussed in these pages cover the underlying development of a wide array of published titles, and provide overviews and insight covering different areas within game AI, including situational awareness, pathfinding, tethering, squad behaviours, coordination, auto-generating navigation link data, and fluid movement.