September Week 4
Know the things that affect you as a developer! Our weekly digest summarizes the articles, book reviews and news written every day by programmers, for programmers. This week we have a snippet of JavaScript Bitmap Graphics with Canvas and a look at the basics of caching.
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September 23 – 29, 2021
Featured Articles
| JavaScript Canvas – Graphics State Ian elliot 
The state of Canvas Graphics looks complicated, but it is very easy to use and very useful. In this excerpt from Ian Elliot’s book on JavaScript graphics, we take a look at how to use state.
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Cache memory and caching principle The principle of caching is very general but it is best known for its use in the acceleration of the CPU. We take a look at the basics of caching, how it works, and what determines its size to do its job.
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Programming news and views
| Microsoft Store for Windows becomes a department store Sep 30 | Sue gee 
Microsoft is taking the unprecedented step of allowing other vendors to settle in the App Store, which launches next week. Amazon and Epic Games have already accepted Microsoft’s invitation to integrate into the open Microsoft Store on Windows. |
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GitLab adds security scan policies GitLab, the web repository manager for Git, has been updated with improvements including project-level security scan execution policies and an improved SAST to reduce Ruby false positives. GitLab provides issue tracking, continuous integration, and deployment pipeline support. |
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Problems at the heart of AI? A recent article by dozens of Stanford researchers calls the AI models similar to the massive GPT-3 “base models”, eliciting a polarized response from other AI researchers and viewers. |
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Democratizing space AI with OAK-D-Lite After its resounding success with a Kickstarter campaign last year for OAK its Depth Sensing AI Kit, OpenCV is back with a new Kickstarter, this time for OAK-D-Lite, a smaller device that is meant to bring AI spatial to everyone. |
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Ballerina Swan Lake Beta 2 Out The second beta of the new “Swan Lake” version of the Ballerina programming language has been released with new language features as well as improvements and bug fixes for the compiler, runtime, standard library, and development tools. . |
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Gitpod launches VS code browser server The developers of Gitpod have announced a new open source project to run VS Code in the browser. The project is based on Gitpod’s OpenVSCode server, which runs a server on a remote machine and allows access through a web browser to run upstream, stock VS Code. |
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Get certified, earn more The results of an O’Reilly survey of data and AI professionals indicate a marked gender pay gap. It also reveals that certification, especially cloud certification, is associated with both higher salaries and salary increases. |
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Google announces Cloud Deploy for Kubernetes Engine Google has announced a new managed application delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Google Cloud Deploy is described as a managed and savvy continuous delivery service that makes continuous delivery to GKE easier, faster and more reliable. |
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No ultimate winner for the Alexa award yet Top honors in the Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 Award went to Team Alquist from Czech Technical University while Chirpy Cardinal from Stanford University and PROTO from University of Buffalo took second and third prizes respectively. |
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Announcement of Unicode version 14 The venerable Unicode standard receives an update. We report on the news and go behind the scenes with a brief overview of the philosophy and practical use of the standard. |
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Kafka 3.0 released with KRaft Apache released Kafka 3.0 with new features, groundbreaking API changes, and improvements to KRaft, Apache Kafka’s built-in consensus mechanism that will replace Apache ZooKeeper. |
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Growing demand for open source talent Finding and retaining open source talent is a top priority for hiring managers and they are increasingly looking for certified people.
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DataStax extends Astra DB DataStax has extended its Astra DB cloud database to be available in multiple regions and multiple clouds. Astra DB is based on Apache Cassandra and now supports multi-regional deployments on one of the three major cloud providers – AWS, Azure, and Google.
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Books of the week
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Full review
Verdict: It’s a fairly reasonable book on Go. It’s not for dummies and it’s well written and to the point. It’s a pretty standard description of a language for anyone who knows how to program, but it’s not as obvious as you might like in the early chapters. It doesn’t do a good job selling the benefits of Go as a language, and it doesn’t deal with Go as a system programming language. You might want a copy if some of the practical examples are things you want to do.
Added to book watch
More recently published books can be found in Reserve the watch archives.
From the I Programmer library
Newly released:
- Deep C #: Immerse yourself in Modern C # by Mike James
In Deep C #Programmer I, Mike James, who has been programming in C # since its inception in 2000, offers a “deep dive” into various important or central topics for the language at a level that will suit the majority of C # programmers. Not everything will be new to any given reader, but by exploring the motivation behind the key concepts, which are so often overlooked in the documentation, the intention is to spark thought and give developers the confidence to tap into the wide range. of C # features.![DeepCsharp360]()
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