Getting started with extending Python isn't easy because of the need to set everything up correctly. Not if you follow our instructions for the Linux toolchain. 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.

Recently a vulnerability was identified in the  Cisco Secure Client that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a carriage return line feed (CRLF) injection attack against a user. CISCO responded promptly. What lessons can be drawn from this to help strengthen enterprise app, network and data security in general?

Well, as ready as any of the recent Android Studio's have been. This one boasts an AI assistant called Gemini - shame Android Studio isn't as fast to implement as Gemini is to suggest.

Stack Overflow has announced a partnership with OpenAI that could improve the accuracy of ChatGPT with regard to programming knowledge. This sounds promising, but there are potential problems.

Grafana has announced the release of Loki 3, with improvements including query acceleration with Bloom filters and native OpenTelemetry support.

Amazon has updated Bedrock, its tool for building with generative AI on AWS. The update adds support for importing custom models and evaluating models, as well as support for using Meta Llama 3 models and extra models from Mistral and Anthropic.

Dev Tunnels is a new Visual Studio option that exposes your localhost to the internet the easiest way possible. But first of all, why would you allow access from the public net to your local machine?

Google has launched Vertex AI Agent Builder, alongside new open-source language models for the Vertex AI platform. The announcements were made at the Google Cloud Next 2024 event.

It was only a matter of time before it happened. A company has created an Alan Turing chatbot and has installed it as its Chief AI officer. A distasteful PR stunt to many, but it's more complicated than that.

When designed with their needs in mind, video games can benefit children’s well-being. This finding comes research from  UNICEF in partnership with LEGO and the University of Sheffield.

The news is that the German State is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice. Why is this of significance?

Azul has announced that its cloud analytics solution, Azul Intelligence Cloud, now supports Oracle JDK and any OpenJDK-based distribution. More DevOps teams will now benefit from its ability to boost productivity.

On May 1,1964 the first BASIC program ran and the world was about to change. Now when we look back it is easy to be critical, but these were different times.

Author: Mark Michaelis
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Date: December 3, 2023
Pages: 1232
ISBN: 978-0138219512
Audience: C# developers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Mike James
The latest edition of a highly recommended book that combines reference and tutorial material.

In this book Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of C++, lays out the fundamental principles of programming and the practical skills needed for programming in the real world. This book is written to help you to understand what it means for code to be beautiful, to help you to master the principles of creating such code, and to build up the practical skills to create it.

Subtitled "A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement", this book sets out to improve the results gained from holding team retrospectives. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen and David Horowitz provide practical advice, techniques, and real-life examples to improve retrospectives whether your team is co-located, hybrid, or remote.

In this book, subtitled "GPT-4 and Beyond", Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg and Isaac "Zak" Kohane document their thoughts on their months of early access to GPT-4 and its momentous potential to improve diagnoses, summarize patient visits, streamline processes, and accelerate research. The book contains real GPT-4 dialogues, unrehearsed and unfiltered, brilliant and blundering alike, all annotated with context, candid commentary, real risk insights, and up-to-the-minute takeaways.