1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (300+ words) Coursera is again offering an attractive saving on its annual Coursera Plus subscription. This prompted us to take a look at its resources for gaining" hands-on experience of Claude, focusing on practical application and building with its API. We've already…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (202+ words) Kotlin 2. 3. 20 has been released with improvements to compatibility with Gradle and Maven. Progress has also been made on some of the compiler plugins." " Kotlin is the open source language originated by Jet Brains and promoted by Google as a first…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (957+ words) 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 spec-driven development and thus completely automated, just like…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (351+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials, programming news, C#, Ruby, Python, C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. This guide to Tcl covers new Tcl features, expanded Tcl-OO coverage, web technology…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (433+ words) We take a comprehensive look at Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for Postgre SQL, specifically focusing on the pg_tde extension developed by Percona. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a security feature that provides file-level encryption to protect sensitive database information "at rest…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (605+ words) Introducing Melvin and Bugsy, characters who figure in a series of challlenges from Joe Celko. Sharpen your coding skills with puzzles that will both amuse and torment you. Joe Celko is best known as the database expert who writes" books…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (217+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials, programming news, C#, Ruby, Python, C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. The premise of this book is that to keep doing what you love,…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (425+ words) The future of programming is currently looking bleak with AI breathing down our necks. Perhaps we are the last" programmers, but perhaps it is more a matter of change. The lead designer of Kotlin thinks that we need a new…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (263+ words) After running concurrently in 2025, Google I/O and Microsoft Build are taking place on well-spaced dates this year, although they are geographically close. Both the developer conferences are Hybrid events using live video streaming to reach a worldwide audience while…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (561+ words) Anthropic has recently updated its Claude Code command-line tool in an attempt to simplify its terminal output, sparking significant backlash from the software development community. However, Claude-Devtools provides a solution. In an attempt to reduce visual clutter and make its…...