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Getting Started with Python
Wednesday 08 Feb | Alex Armstrong
So you want to get up to speed with Python. Here's a lightening tour for the beginning to intermediate programmer who is already familiar with some fundamental programming ideas.
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Programming News and Views
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Sponsor a Valve on Colossus
09 Feb | Historian
 The UK's National Museum of Computing has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for its new gallery for its rebuilt Colossus computer - you can sponsor a valve.
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Google+ Devs Gain Google+ Page
09 Feb | Lucy Black
 The latest Google+ page on the scene has a hint of recursion about it. It's the Google+ page for Google+ Developers.
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MSDN Magazine February 2012 - Asynchronous Programming, WP7 and MVC
09 Feb | I Programmer Team
 This month's MSDN Magazine is out and the I Programmer team has leafed through the online version to discover what it has to offer.
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I Programmer Weekly
08 Feb | Editor
 Use the I Programmer Weekly menu option to find out what was published in the news, book reviews and articles for any week on I Programmer.
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Social Game Players Sue Google
08 Feb | Lucy Black
 Many groups of users have been angry with Google over its axing of projects, tools and resources but one group is so incensed about the closure of the SuperPoke Pets website that it has initiated a class action asserting "fraud in the inducement and unjust enrichment".
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Amazon's Cloud Comes To Windows Phone
08 Feb | Kay Ewbank
 Microsoft has released a beta version of a toolkit that lets you create Windows Phone apps that can connect to Amazon Web Services.
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Google's X Site Solved
07 Feb | Alex Armstrong
 Yesterday we ran a news item on Google's mysterious Solve for X website. Now the mystery is solved and we know what it is all about.
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Windows Phone Marketplace Expands
07 Feb | Kay Ewbank
 Microsoft has announced that five of the recently announced Windows Phone 7 markets (Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines) are now officially open for business.
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PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Database
07 Feb | Kay Ewbank
 EnterpriseDB has ported its Postgres Plus to Amazon Web Services to create Postgres Plus Cloud Database.
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Google's X Factor - A TED Replacment?
06 Feb | Alex Armstrong
 Google is launching yet another website. It is designed to be a forum to discuss off-the-wall ideas and cutting edge technologies. Is this Google's answer to TED.com?
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Widespread Celebrations But No Pardon For Turing
06 Feb | Historian
 A petition signed by over 21,000 people asked the UK Government to grant a pardon to Alan Turing. That request has now been declined.
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Online Computer Science Education for Free
06 Feb | Sue Gee
 Last autumn hundreds of thousands of students signed up for three computer-related free online courses offered under the auspices of Stanford University. This year the number of courses on offer has expanded, but now run by two newly launched companies, Udacity and Coursera.
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Siri Horror - Again
05 Feb | Lucy Black
 This Siri video is professional enough to be a trailer for a movie. Take a look, but be warned this one isn't so funny as scary.
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Google Summer of Code 2012
05 Feb | Sue Gee
 Google's 8th year of its program that gives students the chance of working in open source software development during their summer break was announced at the FOSDEM open source conference in Belgium.
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Cartoon - Recursion
05 Feb | Mike James
 This week's selected xkcd cartoon of the week is about the most feared of programming concepts - recursion. And, to paraphrase a well known quote, if you don't fear it, then you don't understand it.
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Book Review of the Day
MongoDB in Action
Thursday 09 Feb
Author: Kyle Banker
Publisher: Manning, 2012
Pages: 280
ISBN: 978-1935182870
Aimed at: Application developers and DBAs wanting to use MongoDB from the ground up
Rating: 4.5
Pros: Well written description of MongoDB and its advantages
Cons: Tends to be over-enthusiastic
Reviewed by: Kay Ewbank
MongoDB is attracting a lot of attention. Does this book help developers get to grips with it?
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Unhandled Exception! - Tabletop Roleplaying
More cartoon fun at xkcd a webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language
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Software Change Management (Microsoft Press)
09 Feb
Practical guide draws on the extensive experience of author Donald J. Reifer and presents eleven case studies spanning the public and private sectors and academia. Each case study illuminates the original conditions; describes options and recommendations; details reactions, outcomes, and lessons learned; and provides essential references and resources.
<ASIN:0735664757>
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A Concise Introduction to Programming in Python (Chapman & Hall/CRC)
08 Feb
Suitable for newcomers to computer science provides a succinct, yet complete, first course in computer science using the Python programming language. Each short, modular chapter introduces a main idea through a concrete example and a series of exercises.
<ASIN:1439896941>
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Java Performance (Addison-Wesley)
07 Feb
Covers the latest Oracle and third-party tools for monitoring and measuring performance on a wide variety of hardware architectures and operating systems. Learn how to construct experiments that identify opportunities for optimization, interpret the results, and take effective action. Covers microbenchmarking.
<ASIN:0137142528>
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Arduino Cookbook, 2nd Ed (O'Reilly)
06 Feb
This cookbook has been updated to cover Arduino 1.0. You’ll find more than 200 tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes such as toys, detectors, robots, and interactive clothing that can sense and respond to touch, sound, position, heat, and light. See our review of the previous edition.
<ASIN:1449313876>
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The Art of Photographic Lighting (Rocky Nook)
04 Feb
Learn how light and shadow can be used to compose photographs. Example images and diagrams illustrate lighting concepts and demonstrate how different sources of light affect a subject. Topics include: Use of light in classic paintings; perception and design principles; directional lighting and post-exposure techniques.
<ASIN:193395275X>
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Inside Cyber Warfare, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly)
03 Feb
Subtitled, Mapping the Cyber Underworld, there are five new chapters in the expanded edition, one of which looks at Cyber Warfare Capabilities by Nation-State. It also covers the role of social networks in fomenting revolution in the Middle East and Northern Africa and Russian investment in social networks. See our review of previous version.
<ASIN:1449310044>
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Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (Microsoft Press)
02 Feb
Intended for those who know the basics this reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle SharePoint Foundation 2010 and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.
<ASIN:073562724X>
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OSGi in Depth (Manning)
01 Feb
Shows Java developers how to develop to the OSGi Service Platform Enterprise specification, an emerging Java-based technology for developing modular enterprise applications. Presents practical techniques for implementation including management, configuration, event handling, and software component models and pick and choose services to create domain-specific frameworks for your business.
<ASIN:193518217X>
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