As another example of how interpretations of bit patterns differ, consider the way format specifiers in printf and similar functions work. A little known and used feature of the print specifier is the ...

A common requirement is to store a given bit pattern in a variable of the appropriate type. This is achieved using a numeric literal or constant. The compiler reads the constant and converts it to a ...

This article was originally posted on I Programmer in September, 2016 at a time when her name and achievements were hardly known. In the subsequent decade she was widely celebrated, in particular by ...

Programming was a rather different activity at the time of the lunar landings as this photo of Margaret Hamilton standing beside the printout of the source code for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) ...

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.

This book shows how to use a proven framework for developing practical agents that handle real-world business and personal tasks. Micheal Lanham shows how to use prompt engineering to create agents ...

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 ...

This book puts high-level design theory to work in a .NET context, teaching the key skills, technologies, and best practices required to become an effective .NET software architect. In this fourth ...

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 ...

FerretDB has been updated to version 2.0, which the company says offers major improvements in performance, compatibility, support, and flexibility. In practical terms, the main change is a move to use ...

PlanetScale has launched a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects its database platform directly to AI development tools like Claude and Cursor. So what can you do with it? You can ...

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 ...