React Key Concepts, 2nd Ed by Max Schwarzmüller Maximilian (Packt Publishing) is today's selection by bookwatch. This updated edition includes changes brought by React 19 and covers how to think about React on the server. i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

Sqlime - Αn Online SQLite Playground SQLite lives in the browser thanks to WebAssembly. With Sqlime you can run your workload online with no need of setting up anything. nikosv explains. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…

Terraform Fork OpenTofu 1.9 Adds Provider Iteration OpenTofu 's open-source infrastructure as code tool is a fork of HashiCorp's Terraform and has been developed with backing from the The Linux Foundation. Kay Ewbank reports. i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/…

Writing for Developers: Blogs that Get Read (Manning Publications) is today's choice by bookwatch. Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop show how to create content developers will want to read and share. i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

Vesuvius Challenge 2024 Concludes - Two submissions, from Hendrik Schilling and Sean Johnson and from Paul Henderson for Vesuvius Challenge First Augmented Segmentation Prize have each been awarded $30,000. i-programmer.info/news/204-chall…

The Hundred-Page Language Models Book is today's selection by bookwatch. This book by Andriy BURKOV is the #PyTorch follow-up to his bestselling The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book. i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

Rust Foundation Update On Goals - Kay Ewbank reports that the Rust Foundation team has now provided an end-of-year update on progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). i-programmer.info/news/98-langua…

InfluxDB 3 Core Released In Public Alpha - Core, the new open source offering from InfluxData, promises enhanced performance and more freedom in using it under a permissive license. nikosv has the details. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…

JetBrains Reports On Software Quality - This research was conducted by JetBrains JetBrains Qodana to gain a deeper understanding of best practices for delivering quality software and how companies of different sizes and maturity levels differ. i-programmer.info/news/99-profes…

Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript (No Starch Press Press) is today's selection by bookwatch. It's a deep dive into data structures and algorithms that Federico Kereki says will transform the way you approach problem solving in JavaScript. i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

"Looks Good To Me": Constructive Code Reviews (Manning Publications) is today's selection by bookwatch. Adrienne Braganza offers an approach to delivering meaningful code reviews that goes beyond superficial checklists and tense, critical, conversations. i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

JetBrains Adds Claude Support To AI Assistant - JetBrains has added support for Anthropic 's Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Haiku 3.5, OpenAI's o1, o1-mini, and o3-mini models to its AI-powered coding tool, AI Assistant. i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/…

February Week 2 - If you've not visited I Programmer before, our Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It lists our wide ranging news and the week's addition to Book Watch Archive. In this week's top feature nikosv asks Where's Java Going In 2025? -i-programmer.info/i-programmer-w…

C++ For The 21st Century - Mike James adds his own opinions on C++ to those of Bjarne Stroustrup, "Today it is a mess of a language which gives the programmer far to much scope for expression. This is a good thing for a poem, not so much for a program." i-programmer.info/news/184-cc/17…

Java Now Speaks Model Context Protocol - Java SDK implementation of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol ported in collaboration with Spring AI, gets to version 0.70, opening way for Java to enjoy transparent interoperability with AI services. nikosv i-programmer.info/news/80-java/1…

FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards - Kay Ewbank reports that nominations are open for this year's Free Software Foundation (FSF) @[email protected] Free Software Awards which demonstrate appreciation of efforts of members of the free software community. Anybody can make a nomination. i-programmer.info/news/239-award…

The Advanced + Agentic RAG Cookbooks - nikosv takes a look at a repository containing a wealth of advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) resources from Athina AI that also includes RAG techniques for the latest trend of Agentic systems. i-programmer.info/news/105-artif…

PyPI Looks To Paid Services - The team responsible for the Python Package Index software repository has announced a move towards some payments for services to enable the developers to devote enough resources to meet user demands. Kay Ewbank reports, i-programmer.info/news/216-pytho…

Stackql - The New Approach To Querying And Provisioning Cloud Services nikosv writes "Use SQL For Everything Part 2" this time introducing stackql, a tool enables the use of SQL for querying everything, but with a twist. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…

Interact With DuckDB Using Local UI - nikosv reports that @MotherDuck, @DuckDB's makers, having listened to its users, has released a local GUI for easier interaction with the database. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…