Containers are probably the most useful software development of the decade, but as a software developer you may not yet have tried to create your own. If you have, you may have discovered that ...

Mozilla.ai has introduced cq, an open-source standard and platform designed to facilitate shared learning among AI agents. This promises to eliminate a lot of duplicated effort on the part of AI ...

Written for experienced programmers looking for in-depth coverage of the Java language and platform, this revised and updated edition now covers Java 21. Cay S. Horstmann's sample programs demonstrate ...

This book is aimed at people who want to learn how to program but don't know where to start. Joel Murach takes a self-paced approach designed to help build competence and confidence in the reader's ...

We seem to be deeply worried about the threat of AI going rogue, and there are lots of examples of it doing just that. However, they are all misrepresentations, as AI has no intent and no motivation.

Microsoft has announced three new benefits for premium subscribers to Visual Studio. The benefits are available to premium and enterprise subscribers, but aren't included for subscribers to the ...

Bumblebee is an open-source security tool developed by Perplexity AI to identify software supply chain vulnerabilities on developer workstations. Written in the Go programming language, it is designed ...

This book shows how to use PHP and MySQL for web apps, the way the pros do. Joel Murach shows how to create a database-driven website that implements the MVC pattern in the first six chapters. The ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed modular robots using artificial intelligence. The idea is that the robots can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury, and ...

If you want to go beyond a simple client you need to make use of a more general network connection method. The usual way of doing this is to make use of “sockets”. This is a widely supported internet ...

The Pi 5 uses the custom RP1 chip to provide the connection to all of the peripherals. This is very different from the bcm2835 which is used in the earlier versions of the Pi. The RP1 may be new but ...

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 ...