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Python, Redis and VS Code Gaining Users 30 Jul | Sue Gee The results of the 2025 Stack Overflow Survey are out and as ever they paint a very detailed picture of the software development landscape. |
Raspberry Pi Fixes Bug In RP2350 Pico 2 Fix Slow Roll Out 30 Jul | Harry Fairhead ![]() A new version of the RP2350, the chip that powers the Pico 2, has been announced, but you will have to wait if you want a Pico 2 that uses it. |
Blender 4.5 Adds Full Vulkan Support 29 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() Blender 4.5 is now available with a wide ranging set of improvements including full support for Vulkan, a more flexible compositor, and enhancements to the animation timeline.` |
Google's Gen AI Skillup 29 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() Gen AI Skillup is an educational initiative by Google to enable anyone to learn how to use Generative AI. |
.NET 10 Preview 6 Improves Blazor Support 28 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() The latest preview of .NET 10, the opensource platform created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core, has been released, with improvements to MAUI, ASP.NET Core and Blazor. |
Amazon Q Developer Now With Github 28 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() Amazon Q Developer now integrates directly with Github, so that developers who use GitHub can leverage its Gen AI coding capabilities instantly. |
Cult.Repo's Python Documentary Coming Soon 27 Jul | Mike James A must-watch full-length documentary for all Pythonistas is to be premiered on August 28th. This 3-minute trailer gives a taster of what to expect. |
July Week 3 26 Jul | Editor ![]() Take a break and catch up with the latest articles, book reviews and news posted on this site. This week we have two tutorials from Mike James. In the first he looks at process managers in Python. The second is programming language agnostic and investigates a classic data structure - trees. |
Unicode Adds Bigfoot Emoji 25 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() The Unicode Consortium, the standards body that really ought to know better, has come up with this year's list of bizarre additions to the already long and weird list of emojis. As always, the preview list was revealed in honor of World Emoji Day, the annual emoji-fest that has happened on 17 July for the last twelve years. |
For The Love Of Code 25 Jul | Lucy Black ![]() GitHub has announced For the Love of Code, a summer hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. The idea is that you take the mad ideas you've got sitting on the back burner and actually build them. |
Apache Doris Beats ElasticSearch 24 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() The latest version of Apache Doris has taken third place in JSONBench, a benchmark for data analytics on JSON. Doris is an open source real-time analytical database based on massively parallel processing which provides interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis. |
Edera Announces Hardened Runtime Security 24 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() Edera has set out a new software security inititative, Hardened Runtime Security, that avoids the problems caused by the industry tendency to 'move fast and break things.' The company has also joined the NVIDIA Inception Program and is launching on AWS Marketplace. |
Python Parallel? Not Quite Python 14 23 Jul | Mike James ![]() Python is a wonderful language, but lack of speed is its main drawback. Can the Python community create a fully threaded Python to be proud of? It's a big challenge. |
Human Programmer Outwits OpenAI's o3 23 Jul | Sue Gee The 2025 AtCoder World Finals Heuristic Contest was billed a Human vs AI showdown. It is difficult to know which was the more important - that it was Psyho, a Polish human programmer, who topped the leaderboard and was awarded the prize of 500,000 Japanese Yen, around $3,400 USD, or that OpenAIAHC came second, well ahead of all the other human contestants. |
Azul And ChainGuard Team Up 22 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() ...to secure Java container images that incorporate Azul’s build of OpenJDK. |
Linux Passes 5% Milestone 22 Jul | Harry Fairhead 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. |
Agentic AI For PostgreSQL 21 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() 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. |
Google Clarifies ChromeOS Android Merger 21 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() 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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Book Review
15 Jul
Author: Joel Murach 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. |
Featured Articles
The Pico In MicroPython: Asyncio Client 30 Jul | Mike James & Harry Fairhead ![]() Implementing a web client is a basic task for anyone wanting to make use of the internet and the best way to do it is to use asyncio. This is an extract from our book all about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2/2W in MicroPython. |
Deep C# - Bit Manipulation 28 Jul | Mike James ![]() Is C# a high-level or a low-level language? It doesn't really matter - all languages are low-level when you are thinking in terms of bits, and sometimes you just can't avoid thinking in bits. Find out more in this extract from my book, Deep C#: Dive Into Modern C#. |
Programmer's Python: Async - Process Manager 23 Jul | Mike James ![]() Process managers are a way of extending the idea of process to Python programs. Find out how to use them in this extract from Programmer's Python: Async. |
Data Structures - Trees 20 Jul | Mike James ![]() 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. |
Raspberry Pi 5 IoT In C - I2C with Gpio5 16 Jul | Harry Fairhead ![]() 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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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.
30 Jul In this book Dr. Joachim Steinwendner and Dr. Roland Schwaiger show how to program a neural network, from implementing the scikit-learn library to using the perceptron learning algorithm. The book shows how to train a neural network, measure errors, make use of transfer learning, and implement the CRISP-DM model. |
28 Jul This book explains how to use tmux 3, a keyboard-driven terminal multiplexer that provides a mouse-free development environment. In this updated third edition for tmux 3, Brian P. Hogan shows how to customize, script, and make use of tmux’s abilities to craft a productive terminal environment that lets you keep your fingers on your keyboard’s home row. |
25 Jul In this book, Crisis Magazine editor and author Eric Sammons argues that although in its early days bitcoin was known as the currency of drug-dealers and criminals, it is in fact the most moral money ever created and that it outshines our current economic system, which empowers the corrupt and corrupts the powerful. |
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