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Programming News and Views

Send your programming press releases, news items or comments to: NewsDesk@i-programmer.info


Azul And ChainGuard Team Up
22 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
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...to secure Java container images that incorporate Azul’s build of OpenJDK.


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Linux Passes 5% Milestone
22 Jul | Harry Fairhead
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Latest figures from StatCounter show that Linux achieved a 5.03% share of the Desktop Operating System market in June 2025, something that is being viewed as a pivotal moment for open-source software enthusiasts and industry observers alike.


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Agentic AI For PostgreSQL
21 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
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Agentic AI and MPC are coming to the database. We examine two options that will allow you to diagnose and tweak PostgreSQL, the modern way.


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Google Clarifies ChromeOS Android Merger
21 Jul | Kay Ewbank
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Is Google planning on merging ChromeOS with Android? Last week it looked like the long-standing rumor had been casually confirmed by a Google spokesperson. This week, we're back to a position of 'as you were'. 


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Cheap 3D Printed Robots Walk Off Production Line
20 Jul | Lucy Black
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Robots that enthusiasts could build for under $500, and that are smart enough to walk off the 3D printer that formed them, have been demonstrated by a team at the University of Edinburgh. 


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July Week 2
19 Jul | Editor
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In this week's top featured article Harry Fairhead shows how to work with IoT devices using the Raspberry Pi 5 and Gpio5. What's Gpio5? It is a new open source library written by Harry specifically to let the Pi 5 work directly with GPIO hardware. It is  based on the Pico SDK for the RP1 microprocessor, the chip that also powers the Pi 5. 


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Coursera Plus - Your Ticket To Success
18 Jul | Sue Gee
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At the moment Coursera Plus has a special offer for new subscribers. If you love learning new skills or keeping your existing skills up to date, it's worth your immediate attention.


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Blender Free Game Tops Steam
18 Jul | Lucy Black
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Blender Studio has released a free-to-play game on Steam that is designed not just to be fun to play, but as an example of what you can create in the games arena using just open source software.


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Take Part In GitHub's Copilot Adventures
17 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis
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GitHub Copilot Adventures is a repository that, through fun and educational play, teaches how to use Copilot effectively.


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Google Firebase Studio Adds AI Features
17 Jul | Kay Ewbank
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Google has updated Firebase Studio with new Agent modes, foundational support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Gemini CLI integration. 


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AI Leads To Slowdown In Developer Productivity
16 Jul | Sue Gee
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Empirical research into whether access to AI-powered tools, primarily Cursor, reduces or lengthens the time taken to deal with routine software development tasks produced an unexpected result. Using AI tools increased task-completion time by 19%.


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TIOBE - Two To Rule Them All
16 Jul | Mike James
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The July Tiobe index is out and it isn't particularly interesting until you notice that it confirms the standard model of programming -  code is written in Python and C and everything else is just noise.


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Understanding AWS Plans For New Subscribers
15 Jul | Sue Gee
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Amazon has made major changes to AWS accounts that came into effect today. If you are new to AWS do the benefits of signing up to a Free plan outweigh the disadvantages and risks?


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Codacy Guardrails For Secure AI-Generated Code
15 Jul | Kay Ewbank
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Codacy has released Guardrails, a new solution for securing AI-generated code directly in the IDE to prevent vulnerabilities in code completions from reaching Git.


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Geany 2.1 Improves UI
14 Jul | Alex Denham
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Geany, the lightweight IDE, has been updated to add new themes and support for more file types and platform-native file selection dialogs. 


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Akka Launches Agentic Platform
14 Jul | Kay Ewbank
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Akka has launched a new Akka Agentic Platform that can be used to build, operate, and evaluate any type of agentic AI system. The platform provides orchestration, memory, toolkits for agents, and streaming capabilities. 


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AI-Powered Wearable Can Monitor Knee Joint Torque
13 Jul | Harry Fairhead
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Knee-related conditions such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis significantly impact mobility and also increase susceptibility to injuries, creating a cycle that leads to chronic pain, reduced function, and long-term disability. Now researchers have come up with an AI-powered wearable to analyse complex dynamic motion signals of the knee joint for accurate torque monitoring.


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July Week 1
12 Jul | Editor
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This extended version of the newsletter emailed to subscribers every Wednesday lists the week's news items, Book Review and additions to Book Watch and the week's two feature articles. This week Mike James explains how to use masks to work with bit patterns in Python and we look at the fascinating story behind the spreadsheet and how Mitch Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation.


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Other Articles
  • Fei-Fei Li On Spatial Intelligence As The Next Frontier In AI
  • MCP Developers Summit - The Talks
  • GNU Nano 8.5 Enhances Anchor Positions
  • Gemini On-Device - Generative AI For Robots
  • Perl 5.42 Released - Still Going Strong
  • Google Introduces Gemini CLI Open-Source Agent
  • Windows 11 Overtakes Windows 10 - But Not In Europe
  • Apache Arrow 21 Released
  • PNG Gets First Update In Over Twenty Years
  • Chinese Robots Play Three-a-Side Soccer
  • June Week 5
  • Why Drone Shows Are Booming
  • Mitch Kapor Gains MSc 45 Years After Dropping Out of MIT
  • Two Tools To Elevate Your MongoDB Experience
  • Mozilla Discontinues DeepSpeech
  • Computer Science Under Threat
  • CISA and NSA - Use Rust Or Perhaps Java

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Book Review


Murach's MySQL, 4th Edition
15 Jul

Author: Joel Murach
Publisher: Mike Murach
Pages: 652
ISBN: 978-1943873104
Print: B0CHMPQ3FC
Kindle: B0FBX3LBSG
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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Featured Articles


Data Structures - Trees
20 Jul | Mike James
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Classic data structures produce classic tutorials. In this edition of Babbage's Bag  we investigate the advanced ecology of trees - perfectly balanced trees, AVL trees and B-Trees. 


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Raspberry Pi 5 IoT In C - I2C with Gpio5
16 Jul | Harry Fairhead
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The Gpio5 library is a replacement specifically for the Raspberry Pi 5 and CM5 for direct access libraries such as Wiring Pi, bcm2835, pigpio, etc and it provides direct access to the GPIO lines, SPI, PWM and I2C. This is an extract from the Raspberry Pi 5 IoT In C: Drivers and Gpio5 on how to use it with I2C.


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Jay Forrester and Whirlwind
14 Jul | Historian
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Today we celebrate the 107th birthday of Jay Forrester. Discover the man who invented core memory and, indirectly, gave the Core section of IProgrammer its name.


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Programmer's Python Data - Bit Masks
07 Jul | Mike James
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To work with bit patterns you have to master the mask. Find out what lies behind in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data.


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Mitch Kapor and Lotus 1-2-3
04 Jul | Historian
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The spreadsheet was a remarkable  invention and yet the people who pioneered it didn't reap all the rewards they should have. Today we take spreadsheets for granted, but there is fascinating story lurking behind the scenes.


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Unhandled Exception!
Linear Sort

More cartoon fun at xkcd a webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language

Linear Sort

But wait, MERGESORT is O(nlogn) not O(n)...but wait again, now everything is O(n) and computer science is over...

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Book Watch

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Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. Some but by no means all of the books in Book Watch are eventually reviewed.


Practical C++ Game Programming with Data Structures and Algorithms (Packt)
21 Jul

This book looks at the challenges of game development from rendering complex 3D scenes to managing AI behavior and handling animations using high-performance C++ data structures and algorithms. Zhenyu George Li  and Charles Shih-I Yeh show how to apply practical C++ techniques to create smooth, scalable, and intelligent games.


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Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Knopf)
18 Jul

In this book linguist Adam Aleksic explores how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways. From "brainrot" memes and incel slang to the trend of adding "-core" to different influencer aesthetics, the internet has ushered in an unprecedented linguistic upheaval. We're entering an entirely new era of etymology


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Fortran Programming (In Easy Steps)
16 Jul

This book covers the essentials of modern Fortran, and is written for all ages and all skill levels. Mike McGrath starts from setting up your coding environment and starting to write Fortran programs with the Fortran programming language and the modern Intel IFX Fortran compiler. Color-coded examples illustrate the text, and all source code is available to download.


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More Book Watch
  • C++ Memory Management (Packt)
  • The Little Book of Data (HarperCollins)
  • Practical Deep Learning, 2nd Ed (No Starch Press)
  • Grokking Relational Database Design (Manning)
  • Coding with AI For Dummies (Wiley)
  • Learn React with TypeScript 3rd Ed (Packt)
  • Building Quantum Software in Python (Manning)

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