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Google Introduces Gemini CLI Open-Source Agent 08 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() Google is introducing Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that offers lightweight access to Gemini, Google's conversational chatbot that is based on Google's multimodal large language model (LLM), also called Gemini, from terminals. |
Windows 11 Overtakes Windows 10 - But Not In Europe 08 Jul | Sue Gee With the end of support of Windows 10 just three months away, Windows 11 has finally edged ahead of Windows 10 in terms of Desktop Windows Version Market Share on a Worldwide Basis. In Europe, however, Windows 10 still stays firmly ahead. |
Apache Arrow 21 Released 07 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() Version 21 of Apache Arrow has been released, including the first official Swift implementation of the platform. Improvements to Arrow 21 include exposing gRPC in the Flight client builder and improvements to Avro read consumers. The Swift implementation has been under development for a couple of years now. |
PNG Gets First Update In Over Twenty Years 07 Jul | Kay Ewbank ![]() PNG, the Portable Network Graphics specification, has been updated to add support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) images and for animated PNGs. |
Chinese Robots Play Three-a-Side Soccer 06 Jul | Lucy Black ![]() Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer matches in the latest event organized to showcase China’s advances in humanoid robot technology. It was the first such competition in China and a preview for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games, set to take place in Beijing. |
June Week 5 05 Jul | Editor ![]() If you've not visited I Programmer before, this Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It has links to our wide ranging news with its mix of analysis and comment, the week's additions to Book Watch and our latest Book Review. This week's featured articles are an extract from Trick of the Mind by Mike James and a Programmer's Puzzle set by Joe Celko. |
Why Drone Shows Are Booming 04 Jul | Lucy Black What do you need to make a celebration noteworthy? You may automatically think fireworks, especially for Independence Day, but an increasing number of celebrations are turning to drone shows instead. |
Mitch Kapor Gains MSc 45 Years After Dropping Out of MIT 04 Jul | Janet Swift Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s has completed his MSc from MIT's Sloan School of Management, started in 1979. |
Two Tools To Elevate Your MongoDB Experience 03 Jul | Nikos Vaggalis ![]() The tools contradict each other; the first one allows you to write SQL instead of using Mongo's special syntax, while the other allows you to manipulate the database without having to write SQL and by just employing natural language. |
Mozilla Discontinues DeepSpeech 03 Jul | Kay Ewbank The DeepSpeech project started by Mozilla has updated its GitHub page with the message "This project is now discontinued", and a change in the project status to archived. |
Computer Science Under Threat 02 Jul | Sue Gee As the demand for "entry-level" programmers declines, established university Computer Science (CS) departments are facing a shortfall of students. How should they adapt their admission policies and what should high school students aspiring to a career in software development do to respond to the era of generative AI. |
CISA and NSA - Use Rust Or Perhaps Java 02 Jul | Mike James ![]() The CISA and the NSA are urging us to adopt memory-safe languages (MSLs) for the sake of cybersecurity. You probably think they mean Rust but things aren't as clear cut as you might expect. |
Google Releases Python Client For Data Commons 01 Jul | Alex Denham ![]() Google has released a new Python client library for Data Commons based on the V2 REST API. They say the new library enhances how data developers can make use of Data Commons. |
Deno Not Giving Up Over JavaScript Trademark 01 Jul | Ian Elliot ![]() Deno has faced a setback in its attempt to get Oracle to relinquish the JavaScript Trademark. The US Patents Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed Deno's fraud claim which is one the three strands of its case against Oracle. Deno's focus going forward is the other two - genericness and abandonment. |
Parasoft Adds AI Assistant To C/C++ Test 30 Jun | Harry Fairhead Parasoft has updated its C/C++ Test software with an AI-powered documentation assistant, along with complete support for MISRA C:2025 and auto-suppression of equivalent violations. C/C++ Test can be used for static analysis and unit testing of C and C++ code. |
Rust 1.88 Adds Naked Function Support 30 Jun | Kay Ewbank Rust 1.88 has been released with support for naked functions and for Let chains. In addtion, from now on, Cargo will automatically run garbage collection on the cache in its home directory. |
Breaking The Cipher Of Mary Queen Of Scots 29 Jun | Lucy Black ![]() Researchers who break ciphers for fun have been talking about how they broke the coded letters of Mary Queen of Scots using a combination of computer algorithms, linguistic analysis and manual codebreaking techniques. |
June Week 4 28 Jun | Administrator ![]() This week saw the publication of another title in the I Programmer Library published by I/O Press. It was prompted by the recent release of the Pico 2W, the WiFi version of the second generation Pico microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. You'll find details of the new book in BookWatch and we have an extract in which Harry Fairhead deals with a significant problem with the device. |
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Programmer's Python Data - Bit Masks 07 Jul | Mike James ![]() To work with bit patterns you have to master the mask. Find out what lies behind in this extract from Programmer's Python: Everything is Data. |
Mitch Kapor and Lotus 1-2-3 04 Jul | Historian The spreadsheet was a remarkable invention and yet the people who pioneered it didn't reap all the rewards they should have. Today we take spreadsheets for granted, but there is fascinating story lurking behind the scenes. |
The Trick Of The Mind - Regular Little Language 01 Jul | Mike James ![]() Regular expressions are another example of a little language - expressive yes but not Turing complete. This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind which explores what it is to be a programmer. |
Taxicab Geometry Problems 27 Jun | Joe Celko ![]() In the conference season, developers face the perennial problem of getting from one hotel to another to meet colleagues. How good is your ability to write procedures to find shortest distance in a city block setting. Let's look at how the team at International Storm Door & Software set out the problem of Taxicab Geometry. |
The Pico/W In C: Erratum E9 Pull Down Problems 23 Jun | Harry Fairhead ![]() There is an unfortunate problem with the new Pico 2 - its input stage has more leakage than you might expect and what is more this is non-linear and so leads to some strange behavior. This is an extract from my newly published book all about the Pico/W and Pico 2/W in C. |
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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.
07 Jul This book teaches the art of database design through real-world projects, insightful illustrations, and action-oriented learning. Unlike many beginning database books that focus on the technical details of SQL and formal database theory, in this book Qiang Hao and Michail Tsikerdekis teach how to think about relational database design from the ground up. The authors also explore how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT radically simplify the mundane tasks of database design. |
04 Jul This book introduces the ways that artificial intelligence can make life as a coder easier. Chris Minnick explains the tools that can produce, examine, and fix code for you and looks at how to automate processes like code documentation, debugging, updating, and optimization. |
02 Jul Subtitled "A beginner's guide to building real-world, production-ready web apps with React 19 and TypeScript" in this book Carl Rippon shows the first steps in building modern-day component-based scalable web apps using the latest features and capabilities of React 19, TypeScript, and Next.js. Updated for React 19, this new edition covers new features such as React Server Components, server functions, and modern hooks, including useFormStatus and useActionState. The author shows building type-safe components using TypeScript. |
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