If you know how to extend Python you also know how to embed it. This even has advanatages from the point of view of testing. This is an extract from the new book by Mike James that helps you combine the speed and power of C with the versatility and ease-of-programming of Python.

As well as being the founder of defense company Raytheon and heading the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Vannevar Bush is remembered for his Differential Analyser, an early analog computer, and for introducing a concept that we now consider the hyperlink. He died 50 years ago, on June 28, 1974 at the age of 84.

After a post-pandemic boom in well-paid jobs for software developers, job openings are now down on pre-pandemic levels and after many, well-publicized, layoffs from major tech companies in 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies.

The bottom line is no, but you might like to read on to find out what it is all about and see if you think I'm wrong.

Linux has increased its share of the worldwide desktop operating system market by almost half a percent in a single month, going from 4.05% in June to 4.45% in July. StatCounter is the source of these figures.

Bun v1.1.22 has been released with performance improvements so xpress is now three times faster in Bun, ES modules load faster on Windows, and there's a 10% faster Bun.serve() at POST requests.

Microsoft has announced two new APIs for using the language models of GitHub Copilot in VS Code: a chat API and a language model API. The extensions mean developers can add extensions that use the APIs for Copilot to build custom chat participants that users can interact with in the GitHub Copilot Chat view in VS Code.

The latest release of the LZ compression algorithm has been released with support for multithreading, enabling a dramatic improvement in compression speeds of up to eight times.

Not content with winning at Go and Chess, competing successfully in the Math Olympiad and making advances in Quantum Chemistry, DNA folding and weather forecasting, DeepMind has turned its hand, or rather its robotic arm, to table tennis.

The sessions from this year's TPRC (formerly known as YAPC::NA), the premier Perl developer community conference,
are now available online, for free.

The Pi Pico 2 is the very latest from the newly "floated" Raspberry Pi Holdings plc. It has some interesting extras, but also some drawbacks - in particular no WiFi or Bluetooth initially.

Google has announced Spanner Graph, an addition to Google Spanner that adds graph database capabilities to Google's fully managed distributed SQL database service.

Instill AI are the makers of the Instill Core platform which includes a powerful visual pipeline builder for chaining LLMs together without writing any code.

Author: Dr. Mark L. Gillenson
Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 416
ISBN:978-1119907466
Print:1119907462
Audience: Database managers
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book is aimed at people taking a one-semester course in database management as part of their larger information systems management course. As such, it deliberately sets out not to be encyclopedic but to provide a firm grounding.

This book shows hows how high-performance application developers can use the power of GPUs using Fortran. Gregory Ruetsch and Massimiliano Fatica presume no prior parallel computing experience, and cover the basics along with best practices for efficient GPU computing using CUDA Fortran.

This book looks at how to use Terraform features to develop efficient cloud infrastructure. Mark Tinderholt begins by introducing Terraform's architecture, both as a command-line tool and a programming language, HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). Later chapters look at best practices, usage, and architectural patterns and how to implement Terraform on virtual machines (VMs), Docker/Kubernetes, Serverless, and multiple cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

This all-practical beginner's guide is full of step-by-step guidance on everything from graphics and music, to enemy AI, to the 6502 Assembler language you need to get the most out of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Tony Cruise explains modern emulators and breaks down technical elements into step-by-step instructions and diagrams.