Ada Lovelace Day, October 8 is a time to encourage women and girls into careers in technology and to create a more inclusive and equitable working environment for them. We asked some successful women in tech about fostering diverse networks and promoting equal opportunities for women in technology.

Finding the minimum spanning tree is one of the fundamental algorithms and it is important in computer science and practical programming. We take a look at the theory and the practice.

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As time ticks on, the changes to the Python language become fewer and this makes it easier to upgrade. With this release the emphaisis is on performance rather than new features.

Conducted annually by the Python Software Foundation in conjunction with JetBrains, this survey is the major source of knowledge about the current state of the Python community. The eighth iteration of the survey has just started and all Pythonistas are encouraged to participate. Meanwhile here are some key findings from the 2023 edition.

with John Hopfield, for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."

Microsoft has released an update to Dev Proxy, its command-line API simulator. The updated version, v0.21, adds the ability to simulate authentication and authorization using API keys and OAuth2 among other improvements.

Mojo, the new language from Chris Lattner and his AI-focused company Modular, has entered the top 50 of the TIOBE index, even though it it was only launched in 2023.

MongoDb 8 has been released, and the developers have said this is the most secure, durable, available, and performant version of MongoDB yet, with significantly reduced memory usage and query times, and more efficient batch processing.

A Turing Machine is one of those abstract ideas that is much easier to undertand if you can see it working. Now there's a proposal on the LEGO Ideas site for a Working Turing Machine. Lend it your support and it might become a commercial kit. Now that's something I would build.

The sessions from this year's SpringOne conference covering everything and anything concerned with the Spring framework are accessible online for free.

Auction house Christie's of New York broke existing records for sales of rare and iconic computers when it sold the collection that the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, had assembled to preserve vintage and heritage computers for posterity.

CouchDB 3.41 has been released with stronger password hashes, a Lucene-based full text search implementation, and QuickJS as a JavaScript option.

Apache Wicket has been updated to version 10.2, following the major release of Wicket 10 earlier this year. The open source Java web framework is now built on top of Java 17, and has a new module tester to improve JPMS adoption. It also has HTTP2 support within the Wicket core module.

Author: Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0138187538
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Audience: Agile developers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

The driver behind this book was the pandemic and the need to find ways to make remote working effective for teams. So does the book fulfil its subtitle of "Remote collaboration techniques for Agile software teams"?

This book looks at what data structures and algorithms can do for JavaScript code. Jay Wengrow examines how mastering them enables you to write code that runs faster and more efficiently. The book looks at how to use Big O notation to measure and articulate the efficiency of code, and modify algorithms to make it faster. Wenrow examines how the choice of arrays, linked lists, and hash tables can dramatically affect the code you write.

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This guide to statistical analysis using Python presents important topics useful for data science such as prediction, correlation, and data exploration.Peter C. Bruce, Peter Gedeck and Janet Dobbins provide an introduction to statistical science and big data, as well as an overview of Python data structures and operations. A range of statistical techniques are presented with their implementation in Python, including hypothesis testing, probability, exploratory data analysis, categorical variables, surveys and sampling, A/B testing, and correlation.

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This guide is based on Daniel Shiffman's Coding Train YouTube channel, where Shiffman mixes creativity and code. This JavaScript-based edition of Shiffman’s work concentrates on the mysteries of the natural world, turning complex topics like genetic algorithms, physics-based simulations, and neural networks into accessible and visually stunning creations.

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