Linux drivers make working with devices so easy - assuming you know how. Here's how to get a Raspberry Pi to get data from the 1-Wire Bus.

Spreadsheets take the hard work out of calculations, but you still need to know how to do them. Percentages are something familiar to us all, but they present many pitfalls that need to be understood before we can move on to exploring Financial Functions.

A free course on the fundamentals of Machine Learning with Python, taught by Kevin Markham founder of Data School, helps you ease your way into ML and scikit-learn, one of the best-known libraries for this purpose.

Microsoft has released the roadmap for the plans for Java in Visual Studio Code for the rest of the year. Improvements focus on better code completion and navigation, package import, compiling, debugging and testing.

The 2021 Edition of the JVM Ecosystem Report is out and reports that Java 11 is now the dominant choice of JDK for both production and development, with Java 15 having a relatively strong foothold.

The Web Audio API has been promoted by the W3C and is now an official standard as a JavaScript API for creating and manipulating audio content directly within web browsers.

The TIOBE Index for July 2021 is out and is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It ranks programming languages in terms of their popularity and you'll notice that Java and C were the top two languages in 2001 and are still the top two in 2021.

A data science framework for Python has been launched by researchers from Brown university. Tuplex is a parallel big data processing framework that runs data science pipelines written in Python at the speed of compiled code.

This is a nice example of how unexpected effects can be put to good use. Well I think it's unexpected, and I also think that the mechanism behind how this works isn't very clear.

Microsoft has released a video course designed to teach Rust in 35 short lessons. The individual episodes range from three to five minutes long and teach the fundamentals of Rust development.

The 2020 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award has gone to Shyamnath Gollakota of the University of Washington who is seen as a creative force in his field of wireless computer networks and is now pioneering the Internet of Biological Things.

There's an updated version of DenoDB that improves support for databases outside its main list of supported formats by allowing connections with a URL string. DenoDB is an ORM that supports the use of MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB for the secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime Deno.

TypeScript's latest beta, 4.4, has been released with support for control flow analysis of aliased conditions, along with symbol and template string pattern index signatures.