Data structures are what we create out of data and Python has some good standard data structures. Find out how it all works in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data .

Gordon Bell is responsible for many things, but the design of the most successful range of minicomputers, the PDP range, isprobably the thing he is best known for. This is a story about when computers were big, but getting smaller.

This is just one of many question that can be answered by reference to PLDB, the programming language database devised, maintained and used by Breck Yunits, himself the author of Scroll, an open source static site generator, and its variants.

Rust is our great hope for the future. Even if you are not using it you probably have heard of it and believe it is a safer language than C or C++. But is it really?

The Eclipse Foundation, together with the Adoptium Working Group, have announced the latest release of the Temurin Java SE runtime. This landmark release supports 54 version/platform combinations and five major OpenJDK versions. Given the news, we examine why Temurin has been the flagship of the OpenJDK builds.

Udacity has revamped its BlockChain Developer Nanodegree program. It is a two-month program at Beginner level, although you'll need to be familiar with JavaScript and the new emphasis is how Blockchain will be key to Web 3. To celebrate the launch Udacity is offering a 50% discount on the entire Udacity catalog until Friday, May 31st.

The Empire strikes back with the most advanced
Oracle version to date. The focus of this new version is surprise, surprise, AI , which is so embedded into the new product that Oracle found prudent to change its name from 23c to 23ai to make the point. Let's find out what's on offer.

Kotlin 2.0 has been released. The new version is a major update with improvements including a stable K2 compiler, which is multiplatform from the ground up, and according to JetBrains understands your code better, and compiles it twice as fast.

Robots may not be ready yet for the great takeover of jobs that some people fear, but in South Korea, where there are 1,000 robots per 10,000 workers, service robots are finding a role.

Gordon Bell, the pioneering computer engineer who was responsible for the most successful machines of the mini computer era and co-founded the Computer History Museum, died on May 17, 2024 at the age of 89.

JetBrains has announced the commercial release of RustRover, an IDE for Rust developers. The company describes RustRover  as combining advanced coding support with an integrated toolchain.

Google has announced a set of Home APIs and a Home runtime that can be used to access over 600M devices, Google's hubs and Matter infrastructure, along with an automation engine.

Lightbend, the company behind Akka, has released Akka version 24.05. Lightbend produces cloud-native microservices frameworks while Akka allows for building distributed applications.

Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Vintage, 2019
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1529111255
Category: Fiction/AI
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Mike James
A novel about a synthetic human has become so much more relevant recently and guess what - it features Alan Turing.

This is a guide to building and deploying interactive web applications in C# without relying on JavaScript. Updated for .NET 8, Jimmy Engström takes you through the end-to-end development of an example app, with coverage of Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. This edition introduces flexible hosting models, allowing you to mix and match hosting approaches to create flexible and scalable Blazor applications. It also presents the new Blazor templates, which provide ready-made solutions to simplify and expedite development.

This guide to the Kotlin language is aimed at readers familiar with Java or another OO language. Sebastian Aigner et al are all core Kotlin language developers and Kotlin team members, and share their insights, along with practical techniques and hands-on examples. This new second edition is fully updated to include the latest innovations, and it adds new chapters dedicated to coroutines, flows, and concurrency.

Spanning disciplines, David Edelman provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security. Focusing on the critical phenomenon of major cyberattacks against wired societies, the book reconsiders central tenets that shaped global powers' policies and explains what forces in the international system might durably restrain their use. It explores how deterrence, international law, and normative taboos operate today to shape whether and how states think about causing this kind of disruption.