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 ...

With the price of single board computers like the Raspberry Pi increasing all the time, news that Espressif's latest low-cost ESP32 can run Linux is to be welcomed. And its official! It is a bit too ...

The Lemonade SDK has been updated to add support for Nvidia CUDA. The new release adds CUDA support for Windows and Linux, along with Vulkan support for Windows and Linux. It also adds a native ...

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 ...

Aspire 13.6 has been released. It now has persistent dashboards that store resource snapshots and telemetry in SQLite, so you can revisit up to ten completed runs. Other improvements include ...

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 ...

This book covers the latest developments in compiler technology, with new chapters focusing on semantic elaboration (the problems that arise in generating code from the ad-hoc syntax-directed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rise of Spec Driven Development begs for a reassessment of the original thesis; are the principles of "why software engineering will never die" still valid or have they been overridden by ...