Mike James

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World Quantum Day

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

April 14th was World Quantum day and the most noticeable thing that happened was that Google presented us with a nice doodle. Should you get excited? I understand the math of quantum physics and have taken university courses in quantum computation and I can tell you now I am deeply unimpressed by the prospect of quantum computing. This is not a moment like the emergence of ChatGPT, even if it is important.
Deep C Dives: Bits!

2 weeks ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Page 1 of 2 Deep C Dives Adventures in C By Mike James Buy from Amazon.
Bill Gates Shares The Code That Launched Microsoft

2 weeks ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Written by Mike James To celebrate Microsoft's 50th Anniversary, Bill Gates has shared the original Altair BASIC Source Code. However it's not been open-sourced in a GitHub repo - instead it's available as a 157-page pdf of scanned fan-fold paper! It makes for a fascinating read.
Programming Jobs - Going, Going, Gone

3 weeks ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Written by Mike James In the USA, more than a quarter of programming jobs have vanished in the part two years, something that is being attributed to AI. Is this going to get worse? Are all our jobs at risk? It was the Washington Post that came up with this scare story, backed up with data from the US Bureau of Labour statistics. However delve a bit deeper and the news is really quite reassuring,.
Kotlin 2.12 Boosts Plugin Support

4 weeks ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Written by Mike James Kotlin 2.12 has been released with updates to the kapt and Lombok plugins, a new DSL to replace Gradle's application plugin, and a number of improvements for WASM. Kotlin is the open source language originated by JetBrains and promoted by Google as a first class language for Android to replace or supplement Java. From this release onwards, the K2 implementation of the kapt compiler plugin is enabled by default for all projects.
TypeScript Is Being Rewritten In Go

1 month ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Written by Mike James The TypeScript team at Microsoft has released details of ongoing work they've begun on - a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools with Go as the language of choice for the project. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds optional static types which can be checked by the TypeScript compiler to catch common errors in your programs.
JavaScript Jems - The Revealing Constructor Pattern

1 month ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Page 1 of 3JavaScript should not be judged as if it was a poor version of the other popular languages - it isn't a Java or a C++ clone. It does things its own way and sometime it can do unexpectedly clever things like the revealing constructor. The Revealing Constructor Pattern “Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Now available as a book from your local Amazon.
Pi Day 2025 - The Mystery Of Infinity

1 month ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Pi isn't infinite but it exemplifies the problem with allowing infinity into your life. Every year March 14 (3.14) is celebrated as Pi Day by π aficionados across the globe who can use it as a excuse to muse on all things transcendental - or just to eat pies. You may know that, or you may never have thought about it, that there are the infinities of the small and the infinities of the big. The big infinity is generally the one we tend to think of - here take this infinite stick.
The Nature of Code

1 month ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Author: Daniel ShiffmanPublisher: No StarchDate: September 2024Pages: 640ISBN: 978-1718503700Print: 1718503709Kindle: B0CG8F2VKMAudience: GeneralRating: 5Reviewer: Mike JamesThe nature of code - what is it? If, on the basis of its title, you expect this book to give you the answer to what is the nature of code you are most likely going to be disappointed. The book isn't so much about the nature of code as the coding of nature.
The Classy Cast

1 month ago | i-programmer.info | Mike James

Page 1 of 2This C# puzzle brings out the differences between static and dynamic typing. Read it, see if you can solve it, and decide which approach to avoiding the problem fits in with your view of object-oriented programming. Background Object-oriented programming is full of complex pitfalls when you use it in sophisticated ways - even if you think you understand it completely. In this case the problem involves inheritance and type. C# is mostly a strongly statically typed language.