Yes I know we have all seen enough visualizations of sorting algorithms to last a lifetime - which is how long a bubble sort generally takes. But it's the holiday season and sorting is one programmer way to create a tree.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest. It summarizes the week's news together with the week's book review and new titles selected for Book Watch Archive. This week we have a further extract from Programmer's Python: Async in which Mike James looks at process-based parallelism, which has the advantage of no GIL problems.

SadServers is a playground where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers. Besides sharpening your troubleshooting skills, it is also suitable for practicing for SRE/DevOps interviews.

It's that mug time of year and what better than a new endpoint for your favourite algorithm oil... we have some for your consideration. This first one reflects how I feel most of the time and not only when I'm coding - debugging, refactoring and documenting.

It's December 1st - the day on which both Google and NORAD take the wraps off their Santa Trackers that have been in hibernation since the start of the year. Both have a new mini game for kids each day until Christmas Eve plus plenty more activities, both fun and educational, for the whole of December.

AWS Glue has been updated with updated engines and support for Pandas. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that Amazon says makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning and application development.

Code.org has gone all out to celebrate its 10th year. No longer just a global event, Hour of Code, which starts on December 5, has gone extra terrestrial with an hour-long feature about Computer Science in space beamed from aboard the International Space Station.

Striim has announced the availability of Striim Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Striim is also available on Google Cloud and Azure.

November might seem somewhat soon to be thinking about next year's Google Summer of Code - but if you want to participate, either as a new contributor or as a new open source organization then its certainly not too soon as the 2023 program has been announced.

Microsoft has released a new version of ML.NET, its cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. The new version 2.0 adds a text classification API. A new version of Model Builder has also been released,

JetBrains has announced a partnership with Constructor University. In the joint educational program the institutions aim to create a launch site for top performing students both online and onsite. There are plans for Joint Center of Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering to drive the future of software development by virtue of industry-oriented education and training. 

Another giant shows its support for Java. The news is that
Google has joined the Adoptium Working Group and is making Temurin available across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products and services. So what's the deal?

What a difference a hip replacement can make! Not only for humans but also for this ornithopter, a flapping-wing robot that is work-in-progress at the University of Seville's GRVC Robotics Lab.

This week included Fibonacci day, an annual celebration of the 12th century Italian mathematician, Leonardo of Pisa aka Lenardo Fibonacci who introduced a very simple mathematical sequence also related to the Golden ratio. The day falls on November 23, which represents the sequence 1,1,2,3.

Not gifts that you give to robots, although our Alexa has just made a request for a new USB power supply, but robot-oriented gifts to give to the wetware entities in your life.

"Create Your Own Compiler" is an interactive tutorial that step by step shows how to write your own simple compiler that transforms JavaScript into Lisp. Along with it, we take a look at what a compiler actually is and the state of the art that is Roslyn.

Microsoft has released the preview version of Azure Orbital Space SDK, a secure hosting platform and application toolkit that they say will enable developers to create, deploy, and operate applications while in orbit.

Coursera is the leading provider of online Computer Science and Data Science courses, at all levels beginner to advanced. An annual Coursera Plus subscription gives access to the majority of Coursera's vast catalog and to mark Black Friday/Cyber Monday it is offering a 25% discount, $100 off the normal price of $399, to new subscribers.