If you are an Andriod programmer you may not yet be aware of the threat to your continued livelihood. What Google is proposing  is essentially a closing down of the ability to develop apps for Android without registration. If you don't register, you won't be able to distribute your apps - not even to a private group of users. Read the news, sign the open letter and share the story.

Blockly is moving to a new home. Having originated as a single-person project at Google in 2011, it is now a vibrant open source project which has moved into robotics as well as being at the heart of many block-based languages used to introduce new users to coding. Going forward under the stewardship of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it will remain open source with an Apache 2.0 licence.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is rolling out a new logo following the release of strategic objectives to support W3C's roadmap and the formation in 2023 of W3C as a non-profit, public-interest organization. 

Microsoft has merged Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to create the Agent Framework, stirring the AI Agent waters.

Zephyr, a real time operating system and Rust, a memory safe language, are both hot topics at the  moment and Raspberry Pi has decided they are hot enough to support in its extension for VS Code. 

It is taking a surprisingly long time for the importance of the move to effectively close Android to programmers not vetted by Google to sink in. It is effectively a checkmate move to thwart the deregulation of the Play Store.

The results of the 2025 JetBrains Developer Survey are out and indicate just how deeply AI tools have become embedded into  software development. However, while 85% use AI tools for coding and development, only 1% do not express some concern about this situation.

TestSprite has announced a six times increase in users alongside a successful funding round. TestSprite is an agentic testing tool. Initially released in beta last fall, the number of users has risen from 6K to over 35K in the last 90 days following the launch of TestSprite 2.0 and its MCP server. 

Google brings the power of Chrome DevTools to AI coding assistants with its Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol server, now in public preview. 

The Eclipse Foundation has added Agent Definition Language (ADL) functionality to the Eclipse LMOS (Language Model Operating System) project.

Google's AI Studio can now generate Angular applications. Add the Web Codegen Scorer tool on top and you get a pretty solid Angular development platform.

GitHub Copilot has been updated with app modernization features for Java and .NET applications. The news was announced by Microsoft at  last month's Migrate and Modernize Summit, alongside new agentic capabilities in Azure Migrate and a new tool called Azure Accelerate.

It is that time of year when the clocks fall back and we all moan - rightly so. Never mind, we can make it all better by focusing on the clocks themselves... 

Take a break and catch up with the latest articles and news posted on this site. This week Mike James discusses Threading in C# which is basic to implementing asychronous code and easy to get started with, but also easy to make a mess of. In "Missing the Point of LLMs" he takes stock of progress towards general artificial intelligence.

Scouting America, the organization formerly known in the U.S.A. as the Boy Scouts, has announced two new merit badges in artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. The badges are available through the Scouts BSA (Boy Scouts of America) program. 

Microsoft has designed an animated face for Copilot, its ubiquitous AI Assistant. Is Mico, whose name rhymes with "pico", going be a worthy successor to Clippy, the highly annoying paperclip that tried to be helpful, but often came across as an infuriating distraction? Or will we love chatting to it?

IBM has launched Granite 4.0, the next generation of open-source, small but efficient, IBM language models, together with Granite-Docling, the next gen document format converter.

The final release candidate of .NET 10, the platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, has been released. Overall, this release focuses on quality and stabilization, though there are improvements to .NET MAUI, support for Android devices, and Entity Framework.