Servers usually have to be encrypted but a simple HTTP server is a good place to start. This is an extract from our intermediate level book on the Pico's Wifi capabilities.

The distinction between a compiler and an interpreter is one that can cause controversy. One programmer's compiler is another's interpreter and the whole subject gets very murky when you throw in the idea of the Virtual Machine and Just In Time compilation. So what is it all about?

You may think of Linus Torvalds as the Linux guru, but he is also a leading expert on C and often ignored and misunderstood in this role. A recent exchange on the Linux Kernel mailing list demonstrates just how big the gap can be. And, yes, it's an example of Linus at his explosive best!

It's an eventful week for OpenAI, the research company dedicated to making advances towards Artificial General Intelligence that are both safe and beneficial to all. A day after it showcased its latest, multimodal, flagship model, GPT-4o, Ilya Sustkever, OpenAI's Chief Scientist and one of it co-founders, left the company.

Bedrock, Amazon's fully managed service for building generative AI applications, has been enhanced with support for Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus Foundation Model.

GitLab has released public betas of the integration features with Google Cloud that the company announced in 2023. The integration means GitLab’s DevSecOps workflow integrates with Google Cloud secure Artifact Registry, security scanning, and deployment toolchains.

Stack Overflow has launched a new jobs site co-branded with Indeed. It is intended to make thousands of highly-relevant job openings easily discoverable by developers. The job site is currently available in the US, but may expand to more markets in the future.

The MongoDB developers have announced that MongoDB Atlas now has support for stream processing. The news was announced at MongoDB.Local NYC.

The latest addition to the Festo Bionic Learning Network menagerie of bionic robots inspired by the natural world is a bee. Like the Bionic Ant from a decade ago, it has been designed not only look realistic but to demonstrate swarm intelligence.

Or is it? Depends on which side of the wall you are on. Apple is doing all it can to keep control and more importantly keep the revenuse from its App Store, but from the outside it seems to be losing ground.

Until May 20th, edX is offering up to US$1,000 off some of its boot camp programs and 30% off other selected programs. This discount is to celebrate its Birthday - which is why the relevant code is EDXBDAY24.

The latest version of Pharo, the open-source Smalltalk-inspired language and core library adds a new breakpoint model based on the debug point system.

Version 8 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit has been released with the addition of TouchBehavior (previously known as the TouchEffect). The major release also has breaking changes for the Snackbar on Windows.

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 Francesco Esposito illustrates several scenarios for which a LLM is effective: crafting sophisticated business solutions, shortening the gap between humans and software-equipped machines, and building powerful reasoning engines. The book looks at prompting and conversational programming with specific techniques for patterns and frameworks. Concrete end-to-end demonstrations, featuring Python and ASP.NET Core, showcase versatile patterns of interaction between existing processes, APIs, data, and human input.

Fully updated to Elixir 1.15, in this third edition Saša Juric reveals how Elixir tackles problems of scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability. This edition contains new coverage of working with application configuration and the latest OTP releases. It teaches the underlying principles and functional concepts of Elixir, and how each piece fits into the bigger picture of building production-ready systems with Elixir, Erlang, and the OTP framework.

This book sets out the case that we now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, transform how we relate to ourselves and to each other through the market, the public sphere, and the state.