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July 4 - 10, 2024
Featured Articles
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The Pico/W In C: GPIO Input 08 Jul | Harry Fairhead
Input is never simple, but this is about as simple as it gets. This is an extract from a recent book in the I Programmer Library, all about the Pico/W in C.
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Late Binding - Myths and Reality 05 Jul | Mike James
The accepted wisdom is that late binding is complicated and advanced. Not necesarily. Read on to find out how it’s easy in C# and how this illuminates what is going on in other languages.
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Programming News and Views
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Rust's Rapid Rise on TIOBE Index 10 Jul | Mike James
Rust is making spectacular progress up the TIOBE index and JavaScript is also on the up and experiencing a personal best. Kotlin is maintaining its inclusion in the top 20 and the gap at the very top between Python and the other dominant languages is at its widest ever.
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Does AI Copy Code - Lawsuit Says No 10 Jul | Sue Gee
Are we worried about AI code assistants? Well some of us were worried and offended enough to take GitHub/Microsoft/Open AI to court over code copying by GitHub Copilot. But the judge came down on the side of the AI. Why?
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Learn Cryptography Without The Math 09 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
Are you sick of the math associated with cryptography? You don't have to be any more. Applied Cryptography from the University of Tartu shows cryptography without the math! At last, a hands-on tutorial that teaches developers how to utilize cryptography in an easy-to-comprehend and down-to-earth way.
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Apache NiFi Adds Python Processor Support 09 Jul | Kay Ewbank
Apache NiFi 2, a project for processing and distributing data, has been released with support for Python processors in the MiNiFi framework, and a completely rebuilt user interface.
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Pg_lakehouse Makes PostgreSQL Quack 08 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
Pg_Lakehouse from ParadeDB is an extension that turns PostgreSQL into the analytical engine of DuckDB. Why is that useful? How do you use it?
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Gemini Offers Huge Context Window 08 Jul | Kay Ewbank
Google has announced a range of improvements to Gemini, along with the release of Gemma 2. The first enhancement is access to a 2 million context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro, backed up with context caching to reduce overheads. Support for code execution capabilities in the Gemini API were also announced, along with the addition of Gemma 2 in Google AI Studio.
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50 Years Of Rubik's Cube 07 Jul | Sue Gee
The iconic 3D mechanical puzzle, Rubik's Cube, was invented in 1974 and celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. As well as being a popular puzzle that anyone can try to solve, it touches on some interesting mathematical concepts and challenges computer scientists to creating efficient search algorithms.
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Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect's Co-Creator 05 Jul | Lucy Black
Bruce Bastian, co-creator of WordPerfect, has died aged 76. Bastion created the word processing software as a graduate student at Brigham Young University, together with Alan Ashton, his computer science professor.
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Udacity's iOS Nanodegree Completely Revamped 05 Jul | Sue Gee
Udacity has refreshed its iOS Developer Nanodegree Program. The latest version, iOS Development with SwiftUI and SwiftData is intended to take 5 months.
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Fluid Framework 2 Now Production Ready 04 Jul | Kay Ewbank
Fluid Framework 2, Microsoft's development platform for collaborative ways to work with documents, is now production ready, according to Microsoft.
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JetBrains Releases Qodana Self-Hosted 04 Jul | Kay Ewbank
JetBrains has released Qodana Self-Hosted, a version of its code quality platform that can now be managed and maintained by the customer on their infrastructure.
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Books of the Week
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Full Review
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React Programming
Author: Loren Klingman and Ashley Parker Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides Date: April 2023 ISBN:978-0137901760 Audience: Front end devs Rating: 4 Reviewer: Ian Elliot React is difficult to master, so a book can really help.
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Book Watch
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C++ Brain Teasers (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
In this book Anders Schau Knatten explores some of C++'s most interesting quirks through 25 puzzles, from the useful to the outright weird. How does initialization actually work? Do temporaries even exist? Why is +!!"" a valid expression in C++? As he works through each puzzle, he peels off some of the layers of complexity of C++, providing a fundamental understanding of how the language works.
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R for the Rest of Us (No Starch Press)
This book looks at how to use R for everything from workload automation and creating online reports, to interpreting data to map making. Written by David Keyes, founder of a popular online training platform for R, the book offers a simple way in for users who just want to automate repetitive tasks or visualize data, without the need for complex math.
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The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development, 2nd Ed (Source Point Press)
The World of Warcraft Diary offers an unfiltered look inside the gaming industry. It was written by the game's first level designer, John Staats, from notes he took during WoW's creation. The book explains why developers do things and debunks popular myths about the games industry. In great detail it covers what it took to finish the project; the surprises, the arguments, the mistakes, and Blizzard's formula for success.
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