Working with lower-level data is very much part of graphics. This extract from Ian Elliot's book on JavaScript Graphics looks at how to use typed arrays to access graphic data.

It's an unlikely culprit. Why blame a style of music for all our troubles? It really is a question of style, programming style.

Fifteen years ago, ARM decided that it would be good to "help" IoT projects by creating a common OS and development environment for ARM-based development boards and brought us Mbed. Now we have until July 2026 to move to something else.

Google now offers a free 2-hour course introducing Google AI Studio and the Gemini API on Udacity. In addition, until early August, enrolling on a Google Professional Certificate on gives free access to the Google AI Essentials Course.

Accessing and working with Couchbase from C++ is now possible, thanks to the release of a C++ SDK that provides integration with Couchbase Server.

.NET 9 Preview 6 is now available with a wide range of improvements to the runtime, SDK and ASP.NET Core.

Extensions like pgai are targeted at the "AI Engineers", a new breed of developers who unlike researchers are concerned with practically applying AI (models, tools, and APIs) to build software.

Amazon made multiple announcements at its AWS Summit in New York, including a preview of AWS App Studio, the addition of Q Developer to SageMaker Studio, and an Amazon Q Apps API.

A lecture by Grace Hopper with the title “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People” was recorded on videotape. More than 40 years later NSA is refusing to release it.

Girls in Tech, the nonprofit devoted to "the engagement, education, and empowerment of women in technology" has closed due to lack of funding, leaving behind a blank website.

The talks from APISEC|CON, the largest event dedicated to API security, are now available up on Youtube, for free. The virtual event covered AI and LLM security, defending APIs, API sprawl, governance, testing, shift left, authentication attacks...it's all there.

OpenSilver 3 has been released with an AI-powered UI designer and support for VS Code. The open-source alternative to Silverlight is capable of running large, complex legacy applications, as well as newly written C# and XAML applications.

Oracle has announced that support for JavaScript functions and stored procedures has been added to the MySQL database server. The enhancements were added to MySQL 9, an 'innovation release', which was made at the same time as Oracle released the next update for 8.0 and the first update of the 8.4 LTS (Long-term Support) version.

Author: Jeevan Gheevarghese Joseph, Adao Oliveira Junior and Mickey Boxell
Publisher: Oracle Press
Pages: 448
ISBN: 978-0137902538
Audience: Developers using Oracle Cloud
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

Subtitled 'A guide to building cloud native applications', this book explores Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and how they can be used to build cloud native applications.

In this book, Andrew Atkinson looks at how to build faster, more reliable Rails apps by taking the best advanced PostgreSQL and Active Record capabilities. He shows how to work with multi-terabyte databases, and with complex Active Record, SQL, and specialized Indexes, using dozens of practical and hands-on exercises based on PostgreSQL databases and Ruby on Rails applications.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to learning RxJS and reactivity. Lamis Chebbi considers reactive patterns, efficient data management, and the streamlined implementation of common features with minimal code. This second edition has been reworked in light of the latest version of Angular, introducing new reactive patterns based on Angular Signals, which play a pivotal role in enabling fine-grained reactivity within Angular and enhancing change detection and user interface rendering.

Nat Eliason wanted to make as much money as possible in the six months before his first child was born, and chose the crypto sector. Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. He'd been hacked. He'd sold a picture of a monkey for two hundred grand. He'd become an influencer. This book, subtitled "Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance", is his account of the unregulated world being built on the blockchain.