Mike James

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Android Development Is A Mess

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

I've been saying that Android development is a mess for a few years and as a result I don't write about it anymore, but I do still suffer the actual task. Now I seem to have some backup for my position in the form of an ex-Android-Googler. Ashish Bhatia is an ex-Google engineer responsible for Android security and now develops Android apps among other wide-ranging things.
Programmer's Guide To Theory - Turing Thinking

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

Written by Mike James Turing machines are the basis of computer science but perhaps not in the way that you might think. There is a way of thinking about Turing machines that is special. A Programmers Guide To Theory Now available as a paperback and ebook from Amazon. Contents What Is Computer Science? Part I What Is Computable? What Is Computation?
C++ Programming, 7th Ed (In Easy Steps)

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

Author: Mike McGrathPublisher: In Easy StepsDate: April 2022Pages: 192ISBN: 9781787910379Print: 1787910377Kindle: B0F9LDHDBGAudience: Developers wanting to learn C++Rating: 4Reviewer: Mike James This is the 7th edition of a slim book on C++. Can you really learn C++ in easy steps? Getting started programming with C++ is probably more difficult than with any other language.
.NET Preview 5 Improves C#

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

Written by Mike James .NET 10 Preview 5 has been released with enhancements to C# 14 and additions to the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) library. The .NET runtime has also been improved. .NET, which is open source, was created from a combination of .NET Framework and .NET Core and C# is its primary language. C# 14 developers can now make use of user-defined compound assignment operators so the operator modifies the target in place rather than creating copies.
The AI Scam

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

AI is not a scam, but the doubters are going to doubt. The latest attack is based on the idea that if you understand how it all works then it should be clear to you that it is a scam. What are they missing? A recent opinion piece in the Atlantic, What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works explains that if you understand how LLMs work then you wouldn't treat them in the way that you do.
Court Rejects Apple's Appeal - An Epic Win

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

Written by Mike James Apple's latest attempt to maintain full financial control over the App Store has failed, allowing Fortite to stay in the App Store and Epic to use external methods for in-app purchases. There has been another blow for Apple in its ongoing legal battle with Epic, the background to which I outlined last month in Apple Lets Fortnite Back In The App Store.
Deep C# - Delegates

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

Page 1 of 2Delegates are C#'s original way of allowing you to work with functions as if they were first-class objects. The aim may be simple, but the need to define a type and then an instance of the type can be confusing. Find out more in this extract from my book, Deep C#: Dive Into Modern C#.
Closer To A Proof That P!= PSPACE

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

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. We are all fairly familiar with the idea of the complexity class P which are the problems we can solve in polynomical time. Perhaps a better way to express P is the class of problems that have solutions that scale in time like a polynomial in the size of the problem.
JetBrains Previews VSCode Kotlin At KotlinConf

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

Written by Mike James JetBrains has shown off a pre-alpha version of its forthcoming official Kotlin support for Visual Studio Code and an implementation of Language Server Protocol for the Kotlin language. The announcements were made at JetBrains' KotlinConf, along with news of what's coming in Kotlin 2.2. 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.
Java - A Language Of The 90s

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

Page 1 of 2 Java wasn't a revolution even at the time it first appeared. It introduced little that was new and yet we were carried along on a wave of enthusiasm. I can remember wondering why anyone would use it when there was Visual Basic and C++ to use. Java took the syntax of C and C++ and added it to the idea of a virtual machine as typified at the type by the UCSD P machines. Was it a killer blend of features?