Threads are difficult to work with and not understanding locking is a big  source of many difficult to find bugs. This extract is from my  book on using C in an IoT context.

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Java's claim was "write once, run anywhere" and it set out to overcome the problem of incompatibility between the trio of operating systems on IBM, Mac and Unix hardware. It was rapidly adopted as the language for enterprise computing, a role it continues to occupy.

You may well know that important conjecture that P! = NP, but of equal theoretical importance is P! = PSPACE, but it hardly gets any of the publicity of its near relation. We seemed to have moved a little closer to proving it.

Like it or not, AI is having a revolutionary impact on web development. Maybe we haven't all succumbed to vibe programming, but almost all of us are using AI tools in our everyday routine and the results of the recent survey from Devographics reveals.

Microsoft has announced Edit, a new open source command-line text editor in Windows. The editor will be available in preview in the Windows Insider Program "in the coming months" before shipping as part of Windows 11.

Model Context Protocol is now taking control over Windbg and Ghidra to automate the tedious tasks that reverse engineers have to go through in their day-to-day work.

Apache Ozone 2 has been released with support for HSync and lease recovery, and symmetric keys for delegation tokens among the improvements.

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Sun Microsystems announced Java at the SunWorld '95 convention on May 23rd, 1995. At the time, Java was described as a programming language that, combined with the HotJava World Wide Web browser, offered the best universal operating system to the online community.

NVIDIA has announced a number of updates for humanoid robotics, including a way of generating synthetic motion data to teach robots new behaviors, and a foundation model for humanoid reasoning.

We continue the lowdown on Java conferences. Having looked initally at sessions from three Voxxed events, last week we explored two Devoxx events and JavaOne. This week it's the turn of JChampions and JDConf.

At Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and others took to the stage to outline a long lineup of AI-powered products and services including Gemini 2.5,  AI Mode in Search, which is already being rolled out in the United States and Projects Astra and Mariner.

.NET Aspire 9.3 has been released with improvements including the addition of GitHub Copilot to the .NET Aspire dashboard, along with a new context menu in the Resource Graph view; and new lifecycle events.

Author: Bob Ward
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 563
ISBN:9798868809736
Audience: SQL Server DBAs
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Ian Stirk

Now with the subtitle The Next-Generation Cloud Database with AI and Microsoft Fabric, this is an updated edition of a popular Azure SQL book, written by an insider with a wealth of knowledge and experience. How does it fare?

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This fully revised third edition shows how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required. In early chapters Al Sweigart show the fundamentals of Python through clear explanations and engaging examples. From writing a first Python program, readers learn how to work with strings, lists, dictionaries, and other data structures; then use regular expressions to find and manipulate text patterns. Having mastered the basics, the book moves on to projects that teach how to use Python to automate tasks.

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The book presents practical guidance on state-of-the-art systems thinking methods and offers case study applications describing systems thinking methods in novel areas. Paul M. Salmon et al explain how to translate the outputs of systems thinking methods in practice and introduce systems thinking with an overview of human factors and ergonomics applications.

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This book looks at what it takes to design games from concept to completion. Alexia Mandeville, an experienced video game developer, explains the theory behind great gaming experiences, and the tools to bring game ideas to life. Choose the right game engines and design tools for any project and get step-by-step advice on testing and debugging the games you've made.

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