Canvas provides a full transformation facility that allows you to use any co-ordinate system you want to.  In this extract from  Ian Elliot's book on JavaScript Graphics we look at how to use custom coordinates.

What is it about the Goto that attracts velociraptors? Once you know, dino attack is the least thing on your mind!

One of the big, interesting, pieces of news about Windows 11 is that it will allow you to run Android applications. The problem is that Google is changing how Android apps are installed and this threatened to shut Windows 11 out. Now Amazon App store is going to be upgraded to save the day and challenge the Play store.

Given the fantastic tools available for big data analysis, the latest survey by JetBrains has found that the favorite statistical tool for analysis among respondents was.... the spreadsheet. Who'd have thought it!

A free course by InfoSecAddicts, to teach Python from an Infosec Pro's perspective. It aims to cover the minimum Python that you can apply in the field to accomplish day-to-day Infosec tasks.

MongoDB 5 has been released with native support for time series workloads and the ability to reshard live databases. The preview version of serverless instances on MongoDB Atlas was also announced at the MongoDB.Live conference.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 has been released with a focus on "personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation."  The preview is of the full desktop IDE, as opposed to Microsoft's similarly-named Visual Studio Code.

A new library aims to unify all the previous approaches of accessing GraphQL from Spring. The Spring GraphQL project, which has reached its initial milestone towards a 1.0 release, integrates GraphQL, Java and Spring, developed as a collaboration between both teams.

Pine makes a range of community-supported hardware that is well worth knowing about, but its new PineTime SmartWatch offers a unique opportunity to program your wrist.

GAN Theft Auto is a fork of the Nvidia's GameGAN emulating dynamic game environments neural network but applied to Grand Theft Auto.

The report on the latest JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey is out and is packed full of interesting data. Since the weekend is upon us we'll postpone consideration of its finding about programming languages and data science until later and look first at characteristics of the survey respondents.

A compact and previously paid course is now free and open source. It teaches everything someone needs in order to transition to Linux.

IBM is introducing CodeFlare, a serverless framework that aims to reduce the time and effort developers spend training and preparing AI and machine learning models for deployment in hybrid cloud environments.