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Effortless ERD Design With Prisma Markdown 21 Oct | Nikos Vaggalis Prisma Markdown is a new tool that takes the pain out of drawing entity relationship diagrams. An essential help if your design is database driven rather than code driven. |
TypeScript Improves Never-Initialized Variables Checks 21 Oct | Ian Elliot Microsoft has announced TypeScript 5.7 in beta, with improvements including stronger checks for variables that have never been initialized before use, and path rewriting for relative paths. |
Rare Computer History Memorabilia Being Auctioned By Bonhams 20 Oct | Sue Gee Invitations handwritten and signed by Charles Babbage, seminal papers by Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, a "Blue Box" phone hacking device, a prototype Apple Macintosh and an Apple Lisa 2/10 are among items in on ongoing online auction at Bonhams, that ends on 23 October 2024. |
October Week 2 19 Oct | Editor 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 Mike James implements a Hopfield Network in Python and we celebrate Ada Lovelace, the first programmer and a remarkable STEM model. |
Tesla's Optimus Robot Expected To Cost Less Than $30,000 ... Eventually 18 Oct | Sue Gee No fewer than 37 Optimus Robots mingled with guests at last week's We, Robot event and the audience were treated to the spectacle of around seven of them performing a dance routine. Elon Musk also made several important statements about his plans to make them a commercial reality. |
Microsoft Open Sources Drasi 18 Oct | Kay Ewbank Microsoft has announced the open source availability of Drasi, a data processing system designed to simplify the detection of and reaction to critical events within complex event-driven infrastructures. |
Julia 1.1 Adds Array Alternative 17 Oct | Kay Ewbank Julia 1.1 has been released with improvements including a new Memory type that provides a lower-level container as an alternative to Array. |
Postgres And Kubernetes Together In Harmony 17 Oct | Nikos Vaggalis Yes, they can coexist thanks to CloudNativePG, the PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes. Furthermore, if you want to try before you buy you can, thanks to the new learning environment, CNPG Playground. |
Google Releases Gemini Code Assist Enterprise 16 Oct | Kay Ewbank Google has released the enterprise version of Gemini Code Assist. This latest version adds the ability to train on internal polices and source code. The product was announced at the Google Cloud Summit in London this week. |
Save On edX Professional Certificates 16 Oct | Sue Gee The idea of gaining a Professional Certificate is to demonstrate your possession of skills needed to succeed in today's most in-demand fields. News of 30% off edX Professional Certificates prompted us to take a look at what's on offer if you want to acquire skills in AI and Data Science. The two that stood out are both from Harvard University. |
Check Your APIs With Zuplo's Rate My OpenAPI 15 Oct | Nikos Vaggalis Zuplo has launched a new suite of tools that rates the quality of your API, based on its OpenAPI specification. We put it through its paces and find it useful. |
JetBrains Partners With OpenCV 15 Oct | Kay Ewbank JetBrains has formed a new partnership with OpenCV, the world's largest library for computer vision. As part of the collaboration, JetBrains has joined OpenCV as a Silver Member, making PyCharm the official Python IDE for OpenCV. |
PostgreSQL 17 Is Released 14 Oct | Nikos Vaggalis with many improvements and features. Let's find out all about them. |
Microsoft Introduces Unified .NET API For AI 14 Oct | Kay Ewbank Microsoft has introduced new libraries for integrating AI services into .NET applications and libraries, along with middleware for adding key capabilities. |
Geoffrey Hinton And The Existential Threat From AI 13 Oct | Sue Gee As the winner of the Nobel Prize For Physics 2024, Geoffrey Hinton found himself being interviewed multiple times. He used the opportunity to reiterate and explain why he has come to see AI as an existential threat to humanity. |
October Week 1 12 Oct | Editor Ada Lovelace Day took place this week and we asked successful women in tech about promoting equal opportunities for women in our industry. Mike James looks at Dijkstra's Algorithm, a fundamental and important idea in computer science and practical programming. Plus the week's news and books. |
The Data Engineering Vault 11 Oct | Nikos Vaggalis A curated network of knowledge designed to facilitate exploration, discovery, and deep learning in the field of data engineering. |
Nobel Prize For Chemistry For AlphaFold 11 Oct | Sue Gee The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded a half share of the 2024 Nobel Prize For Chemistry to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and his colleague John Jumper for "protein structure prediction", referring to the breakthroughs made by their AI Model, AlphaFold. |
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ABC - The 1st Computer? 17 Oct | Historian If you are at all interested in the history of the computer you can't help but debate the question of who actually invented the first machine? According to a court ruling made October 19, 1973 it was John Atanasoff, inventor of the ABC. |
The Hopfield Network - A Simple Python Example 14 Oct | Mike James The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield has generated some interest in Hopfield networks. The good news is that it is remarkably easy to understand and implement such a network. |
Ada Lovelace, The First Programmer 10 Oct | Historian Ada, Countess of Lovelace was born 200 years ago but her name lives on. In the 1970s the Ada language was named in recognition of her status as the first computer programmer and in 2009 Ada Lovelace Day was inaugurated to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Here we tell the of how she worked with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine. |
Furthering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM 08 Oct | Janet Swift 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. |
The Minimum Spanning Tree In C# - Prim's or Dijkstra Algorithm 06 Oct | Mike James 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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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.
Optimization Algorithms (Manning) 21 Oct This book introduces AI algorithms designed to solve complex and poorly-structured problems such as "What’s the fastest route from one place to another?" "How do you calculate the optimal price for a product?" and "How should you plant crops, allocate resources, and schedule surgeries?" <ASIN:163343883X> |
Nexus : A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Random House UK) 18 Oct This book considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking the reader from the Stone Age through the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari considers the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. <ASIN:191171709X > |
Serious Cryptography, 2nd Ed (No Starch Press) 16 Oct Subtitled "A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption", this thoroughly revised and updated second edition introduces modern cryptography and down fundamental mathematical concepts without shying away from meaty discussions of how they work. Jean-Philippe Aumasson provides insights into topics like authenticated encryption, secure randomness, hash functions, block ciphers, and public-key techniques such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. <ASIN: 1718503849> |
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