Information theory – perhaps one of the most remarkable inventions of the twentieth century - naturally leads on to the consideration of how information can be coded and hence coding theory.

Towers of Hanoi is a classic puzzle and is often used to illustrate the idea of recursion. Here you are challenged to find solutions to some variations, after first explaining the original version.

Over three quarters of developers use or plan to use AI tools, perceiving the main benefit as increasing productivity, but at the same time fewer than half trust the accuracy of AI tools and almost half of professional developers believe AI tools struggle to handle complex tasks.

Google has announced Genkit for Go, an open source framework for building AI-powered applications and cloud services natively in Go. Google says that it combines Go's performance and concurrency advantages with Genkit's libraries and tools.

Iterative has released a new open-source tool for processing and evaluating unstructured data at scale. DataChain is an open-source Python library designed to make it easier to use generative AI on unstructured data by providing a link between the unstructured data and AI workflows based in languages such as Python.

Amazon Bedrock and MemoryDB have been improved according to announcements made at Amazon's recent AWS Summit in New York.

pgextensions.org by DataCloudGaze is an online index of all PostgreSQL extensions that are available on all Cloud providers' managed instances. Why is that useful?

Project Leyden, an OpenJDK project, is now available in an early access release. Leyden aims to improve the startup time, lower the warmup time, and reduce the footprint of Java programs. It aims to do this by enabling developers to shift computation forward and backward in time by means of condensing code.

With the skies full of drones, how can drone collisions be avoided? Inspired by flocking models in nature, researchers in Hungary have come up with an algorithm to handle large volumes of autonomous drones safely.

This week sees the 'celebration', if that's the word we're looking for, of World Emoji Day, the annual emoji-fest that has happened on July 17 for the last eleven years. This year we've largely been spared the usual range of strange additions to the emoji set, but there is a survey of what emojis are the most confusing.

The sessions from this year's British branch of the premier Java developer community conference, are now available online, for free.

DevToys, a bundle of tiny tools designed to do quick, specific tiny tasks, has been updated with a cross-platform version supporting Windows, MacOS and Linux.

The Rust Language was the winner of the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award which recognizes a software system that has had a significant impact and carries a prize of $2500. The award was presented at the Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) Conference held last month in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Author: Paolo Ferragina
Publisher: ‎Cambridge University Press
Pages: 326
ISBN: ‎978-1009123280
Audience: Admirers of Knuth
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Mike James

Written for experienced programmers looking for in-depth coverage of the Java language and platform, this revised and updated edition now covers Java 21. Cay S. Horstmann's sample programs demonstrate almost every language and library feature, as well as the newest capabilities introduced in Java 21. This first of two volumes offers a detailed treatment of fundamental Java programming topics, including object-oriented programming, reflection and proxies, interfaces and inner classes, exception handling, generics, collections, lambda expressions, concurrency, annotations, and the Java Platform Module System.

This book is a guide to implementing SOLID principles and refactor legacy code using the modern features and approaches of C++, the standard library, Boost library collection, and Guidelines Support Library by Microsoft. Dmitry Danilov begins by describing the essential elements of writing clean code and discussing object-oriented programming in C++. He then explores the design principles of software testing with examples of using unit testing frameworks such as Google Test. The book also guides you through applying automated tools for static and dynamic code analysis using Clang Tools.

This book demystifies the world of radio through a dozen innovative projects, enabling readers to build inexpensive radio circuits such as transmitters and receivers, remote controls, and a working metal detector. Fredrik Jansson and Charles Platt also adapt radio concepts for the Raspberry Pi Pico, updating classic concepts with contemporary tools for accuracy and power.