Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest which summarizes the week's news together with links to the latest book review and our additions to Book Watch. This week's featured articles are by Ian Elliot. The first is about how the JavaScript Fetch API handles graphics and the second discusses "How Jazz Ruined Programming".
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July 11 - 17, 2024
Featured Articles
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JavaScript Canvas - Fetch API 16 Jul | Ian Elliot
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.
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How Jazz Ruined Programming 11 Jul | Ian Elliot
It's an unlikely culprit. Why blame a style of music for all our troubles? It really is a question of style, programming style.
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Programming News and Views
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Mbed Is Dead - Thanks Arm 17 Jul | Harry Fairhead
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.
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Google AI Training on Udacity and Coursera 17 Jul | Sue Gee
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.
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Couchbase C++ SDK Goes GA 16 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
Accessing and working with Couchbase from C++ is now possible, thanks to the release of a C++ SDK that provides integration with Couchbase Server.
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.NET 9 Preview 6 Improves ARM64 Code Generation 16 Jul | Kay Ewbank
.NET 9 Preview 6 is now available with a wide range of improvements to the runtime, SDK and ASP.NET Core.
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Pgai Brings Your ML Workload To The Database 15 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
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.
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Amazon Updates Q Family And Previews App Studio 15 Jul | Kay Ewbank
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.
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NSA Refuses To Release Grace Hopper Tapes 14 Jul | Sue Gee
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.
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Girls In Tech Has Closed 12 Jul | Sue Gee
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.
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APISEC Conference Sessions Now Available Online 12 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
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.
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OpenSilver 3 Adds AI-Powered UI Designer 11 Jul | Ian Elliot
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.
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MySQL 9 Adds Support For JavaScript Stored Procedures 11 Jul | Kay Ewbank
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.
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Books of the Week
If you want to purchase, or to know more about, any of the titles listed below from Amazon, click on the book jackets at the top of the right sidebar. If you do make Amazon purchases after this, we may earn a few cents through the Amazon Associates program which is a small source of revenue that helps us to continue posting.
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Full Review
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle Press)
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.
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Book Watch
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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails (Pragmatic)
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.
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Reactive Patterns with RxJS and Angular Signals (Packt)
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.
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Crypto Confidential (Portfolio)
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.
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