As part of its annual re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is running a BugBust Challenge.  Java and Python developers of all skill levels, can compete to fix as many software bugs as possible to earn points and climb the global leaderboard.

PHP,  the server-side web language used for eight out of ten websites using server-side code, has an annual release cycle and the latest update to this venerable workhorse of the web has just been released.

JetBrains has unveiled an early preview of a lightweight IDE and code editor. Fleet is designed to be ready to use without the need for user configuration and also facilitates development in the cloud and on remote servers.

Amazon has updated CodeGuru to detect hardcoded secrets, such as usernames and passwords, database connection strings, tokens, and API keys from AWS in Java and Python repositories.

The 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing has been awarded to a six-member team from Japan for a novel aerosol simulation methodology investigating how  COVID-19 might spread from person to person via aerosolized droplets.

Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. This week Harry Fairhead shows how to get a Raspberry Pi to get data from the 1-Wire Bus and Ian Elliot continues his series on PHP, looking at its object-oriented features. Plus the week's books and news.

A team from India has been selected as the Grand Prize winner of IBM's 2021 Call For Code developer challenge with Saaf Water, an AI-powered IoT solution that provides feedback on water quality.

After more than two years, the long-awaited release of this open source library is finally here, and with a lot to offer.

TypeScript 4.5 has been released with improvements including support for the Awaited type, improvements to the support promises, and new snippet completions.

ControlFlag, Intel's open source AI-powered bug checker has been updated to version 1.0.  ControlFlag uses machine learning and works with any programming language with control structures.

The changes may be small, but we still need to keep up-to-date. How does moving to version 10 change C#? A look at three features that make it really worthwhile.

Findings from GitHub's annual State of the Octoverse report indicate that post pandemic only a minority of developers expect to work in an office location. The report also looks at what makes developers and teams perform better, be more productive, and have a great developer experience.

GraalVM, the runtime that compiles Java bytecode into native self-contained executables and capable of running programs in different languages other than Java, has reached version 21.3.

Members of the PHP community, including JetBrains, have set up the PHP Foundation, hosted on Open Collective. In the 24 hours since its announcement it has already raised over $25,000 to advance the development of the PHP language.

Hibernate Reactive Version 1.00 fosters non-blocking I/O access to the database plus reactive extensions. Let's get under the covers and find our why this helps.

Apache Arrow 6 has been released with improvements to support for R and Rust as well as Arrow Flight. There's also new support for DataFusion.

More than 100 Everyday Robots have been introduced into some of Google's Bay Area campuses where they are being used to tidy chairs in meeting rooms and wipe refectory tables.

Get up to speed on stuff that affects you as a developer with our weekly digest. It summarizes the week's news together with links to the week's book review andour additions to Book Watch. This week we also have an extract on Returning Promises from JavaScript Async and, from our History Section, the story of how Herman Hollerith invented the punch card and the tabulator to sort them.