Data structures are what we create out of data and Python has some good standard data structures. Find out how named tuples and counters work in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data.  <ASIN:1871962595>

SNTP is a network protocol for obtaining an accurate time and it is an interesting exercise to build an SNTP client. In this article the language used is C# but it is easy enough to generalise to a language of your choice and extend the ideas to an SNTP server if you need to. The main aim is to describe and show how to implement the basic protocol.

It is always interesting to hear what Linus Torvalds is thinking, and it's always about Linux, well nearly always. Find out what is going on before it happens in this recent interview.

Dozens of rare historic computers are currently up for auction. As well as a room-sized PDP 7, there's an Altair, an Apple I, a Cray I and an Enigma machine on offer to the highest bidder as the private collection of the late Paul Allen, is sold by Christies, New York.

Is Bash still relevant in this age of AI? Many wanted the command line bashed (pun intended), deprecated or replaced by something else. If you think it's still worth using, here's a free course from Learn Linux TV that takes you from total novice to advanced Linux CLI user.

Microsoft has released Prompty, a tool designed for creating, managing, debugging, and evaluating Large Language Models (LLM) prompts for your AI applications. The idea is developers will be able to use it to integrate LLMs like GPT-4o directly into .NET apps.

Claude Engineer is a CLI tool that draws on Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5 model to add super power capabilities to your coding workflow.

Microsoft has updated Azure Data Box with improvements designed to accelerate offline data migration.

We all like a dancing robot, but there is a huge difference between a human pre-computed performance and getting the robot to work out a routine, or even to mimic a human. Disney can now get a robot to dance just by showing it what a human can do.

The sessions from this year's premier Spring developer community conference, are now available online, for free.

Keen watchers of industry trends think that Mozilla is working on changing its logo, and have been debating just what this means for the company behind Firefox.

Snowflake has added support for the Iceberg table format and subsequently became able to work with data commonly found in data lakes and warehouses.

Microsoft has donated Mono, the open source, cross-platform, implementation of the .NET framework, to WineHQ. The donation was made quietly, with the only real sign being a small paragraph on the project's GitHub page.

Author: Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
Publisher: New Riders
Pages: 400
ISBN: 978-0138188221
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Audience: General
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book says it is aimed at user experience designers in the field. I'd say it is really aimed at people working in teams of web designers.

This book looks at functional programming wit C#. TAlex Yagur starts with the core principles and benefits of functional programming, contrasting it with imperative and object-oriented concepts. Topics include the functional features of C# and how to write expressive, modular code through expressions, pure functions, and higher-order functions.

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This book looks at information modeling approaches, including object-role modeling (ORM), entity-relationship (ER) modeling, and the unified modeling language (UML). Terry Halpin and Tony Morgan show how to map models developed with those approaches to a variety of relational and nonrelational database systems, including document databases, column-oriented databases, graph databases, and deductive databases.

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This is an introductory textbook on soft body robotics. Juntian Qu et al start with an introduction to the subject, then explain fundamental concepts such as perception and sensing, fabrication techniques and material design. Next, the book explains modeling and control for soft robotics and the applications, before going on to look at the challenges and future prospects for soft robotics.

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