Implementing a web client is a basic task for anyone wanting to make use of the internet and the best way to do it is to use asyncio. This is an extract from our book all about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2/2W in MicroPython.

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Is C# a high-level or a low-level language? It doesn't really matter - all languages are low-level when you are thinking in terms of bits, and sometimes you just can't avoid thinking in bits. Find out more in this extract from my book, Deep C#: Dive Into Modern C# .

The results of the 2025 Stack Overflow Survey are out and as ever they paint a very detailed picture of the software development landscape.

A new version of the RP2350, the chip that powers the Pico 2, has been announced, but you will have to wait if you want a Pico 2 that uses it.

Blender 4.5 is now available with a wide ranging set of improvements including full support for Vulkan, a more flexible compositor, and enhancements to the animation timeline.`

Gen AI Skillup is an educational initiative by Google to enable anyone to learn how to use Generative AI.

The latest preview of .NET 10, the opensource platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, has been released, with improvements to MAUI, ASP.NET Core and Blazor.

Amazon Q Developer now integrates directly with Github, so that developers who use GitHub can leverage its Gen AI coding capabilities instantly.

A must-watch full-length documentary for all Pythonistas is to be premiered on August 28th. This 3-minute trailer gives a taster of what to expect.

The Unicode Consortium, the standards body that really ought to know better, has come up with this year's list of bizarre additions to the already long and weird list of emojis. As always, the preview list was revealed in honor of World Emoji Day, the annual emoji-fest that has happened on 17 July for the last twelve years.

GitHub has announced For the Love of Code, a summer hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. The idea is that you take the mad ideas you've got sitting on the back burner and actually build them.

The latest version of Apache Doris has taken third place in JSONBench, a benchmark for data analytics on JSON. Doris is an open source real-time analytical database based on massively parallel processing which provides interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis.

Edera has set out a new software security inititative, Hardened Runtime Security, that avoids the problems caused by the industry tendency to 'move fast and break things.'  The company has also joined the NVIDIA Inception Program and is launching on AWS Marketplace.

Author: Joel Murach
Publisher: Mike Murach
Pages: 652
ISBN: 978-1943873104
Audience: MySQL developers
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This is an updated edition of a longstanding popular title. The new edition adds a chapter on cloud computing and hosting MySQL on Amazon Web Services, and updates the information for MySQL 8.0.33, removing deprecated data types and functions and adding new statement options and clauses.
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In this book Dr. Joachim Steinwendner and Dr. Roland Schwaiger show how to program a neural network, from implementing the scikit-learn library to using the perceptron learning algorithm. The book shows how to train a neural network, measure errors, make use of transfer learning, and implement the CRISP-DM model.

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This book explains how to use tmux 3, a keyboard-driven terminal multiplexer that provides a mouse-free development environment. In this updated third edition for tmux 3, Brian P. Hogan shows how to customize, script, and make use of tmux’s abilities to craft a productive terminal environment that lets you keep your fingers on your keyboard’s home row.

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In this book, Crisis Magazine editor and author Eric Sammons argues that although in its early days bitcoin was known as the currency of drug-dealers and criminals, it is in fact the most moral money ever created and that it outshines our current economic system, which empowers the corrupt and corrupts the powerful.

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