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Steve Wozniak - Electronics Genius
15 Aug | Harry Fairhead
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Co-designer of the Apple computer, Steve Wozniak is one of the computer pioneers who have changed the way we work and play. He is also something much rarer today, an electronics genius. He has just turned 75, so this seems like a good time to look back on his achievements.



Programmer's Python - Metaclass
13 Aug | Mike James
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Metaclasses are advanced and you generally don’t need to know about them or make use of them. But knowing how they work might suggest alternative approaches to many problems. This extract is from my book with the subtitle "Something Completely Different".



Successful COBOL Project Modernization
09 Aug | Gilad David Mayaan
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We usually think of COBOL as a legacy language. But it is a legacy that lives on, maintaining projects that originated as long as 50 years ago. But this is is increasingly unsustainable. We look at the why and how of COBOL project modernization with five pro tips for successful outcomes.



Grace Hopper - The Mother of Cobol
01 Aug | Historian
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Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was responsible not only for the development of the Cobol language but also for making computers and computing more accessible. Her remarkable career justifies her accolades of "Mother of COBOL", "Amazing Grace" and "Queen of Software".



The Pico In MicroPython: Asyncio Client
30 Jul | Mike James & Harry Fairhead
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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.


 
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