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Weekly Newsletter (20 Dec 2021)


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Weekly Poll Results

What genre of books do us developers like to read?

Survey period: 13 Dec 2021 to 20 Dec 2021

Obviously RFCs and Spec documents top the list, so let's skip them and see what's on everyone's bedside table these days.

Option	Votes	%
Science Fiction or Dystopian	481	62.31
Fantasy	296	38.34
Horror / Thriller	99	12.82
Mystery / Crime	251	32.51
Romantic	24	3.11
Non-Fiction: Science / Engineering / Education	409	52.98
Non-Fiction: Business and Money	96	12.44
Non-Fiction: Health / Psychology / Well-being	76	9.84
Non-Fiction: Repair / Maintenance / Craft / Hobbies / Cooking	166	21.50
Memoir / Biography / Autobiography	133	17.23
Other	133	17.23
Responses	772
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

This week's survey: How will you be spending this Holiday period?

Latest Additions

New articles added

General Programming

A Problem Finding Optimal Number of Sentences and Possible Solutions

(5 votes) by Michael Haephrati (updated 2 days ago)

We were asked to develop a piece of software which will select an optimal combination of sentences from e-books which will give the closest result to a set of targets for each character.

Programming Languages

Arbitrary Precision - Easy-to-use C++ Library for Long Integer Arithmetic

(7 votes) by Volodymyr Zakalyk (updated 6 days ago)

Introduction of a newly developed solution for integer arithmetic

Client to Server File/Data Streaming

(6 votes) by Marc Clifton (updated 4 days ago)

Your one-stop guide for API and web-client Form, XHR, Blob, and Drag & Drop File/Data Uploading

Web Development

HTML Table – Freeze Row and Column with CSS

(5 votes) by adriancs (updated 4 days ago)

Having a freeze pane effect on HTML Table

Introducing Ottoman v2.0: An ODM for Node.js & Couchbase

(0 votes) by Arun_Vijayraghavan (updated 3 days ago)

In this article we provide a basic understanding of why and when you should consider Ottoman for your next Node.js project.

Articles updated

Artificial Intelligence

Bezier Curve Machine Learning Demonstration

(12 votes) by asiwel (updated 4 days ago)

Bezier Curve Classification Training And Validation Models Using ALGLIB

General Programming

Can QR Decomposition Be Actually Faster? Schwarz-Rutishauser Algorithm

(7 votes) by Arthur V. Ratz (updated 3 days ago)

Optimizing performance of the large-sized matrices QR factorization using Schwarz-Rutishauser algorithm.

Internet of Things

Arduino Home Distillery

(9 votes) by Christ Kennedy (updated yesterday)

Distil hand-sanitizer and other social lubricants using an Arduino

IoT Starter Raspberry Pi Lumi

(3 votes) by Jose Motta (updated yesterday)

IoT.Starter.Pi.Thing growing into an embryo of a universal IR remote control

Multimedia

Multiple Face Detection and Recognition in Real Time

(340 votes) by Sergio Andrés Gutiérrez Rojas (updated 5 hours ago)

Face detection and recognition with support of multiples faces in the same scene and other interesting features using C# and EmguCV

Programming Languages

We Make a std::shared_mutex 10 Times Faster

(71 votes) by AlexeyAB (updated 3 days ago)

Atomic operations and C++11 memory barriers and assembler instructions generated on x86_64 CPUs

Harlinn.Windows - A Visual Studio 2022 Solution

(14 votes) by Espen Harlinn (updated 3 days ago)

Harlinn.Windows is a collection of libraries that I have put together that serves as a big part of the runtime we use at work.

ptr_to_unique, extending std::unique_ptr to support weak secondary smart pointers

(7 votes) by john morrison leon (updated 4 days ago)

A smart pointer to an object already owned by a unique_ptr. It doesn't own the object but it self zeroes when the object is deleted so that it can never dangle.

New Tips and Tricks added

Hosted Services

Reading Entries from Application Settings and Connection Strings in Azure Function using C# .NET Core 3.1

(2 votes) by Sauradipta Chaudhury (updated 3 days ago)

This is a coding solution to use Application Settings and Connection Strings sections under Configuration Menu in Azure Functions V2.x and above to store configurable entries.

Programming Languages

IniReader: A Simple, Tiny INI Reader

(16 votes) by honey the codewitch (updated 6 days ago)

An INI reader that is easy to use, easy to port, relatively efficient, and to the point

Manipulate network adapter via WMI in plain C and C++

(1 votes) by Member 15004323 (updated yesterday)

Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WMI class in plain C and C++

Cinchoo ETL - Compare Two CSV Files for Add, Changed or Deleted Records (Master vs Detail)

(1 votes) by Cinchoo (updated 6 days ago)

How to compare two CSV files for Add, Deleted and Changed records using Cinchoo ETL

Tips and Tricks updated

Programming Languages

Cinchoo ETL - Deserializing JSON to Polymorphic Classes without Type Information

(2 votes) by Cinchoo (updated yesterday)

Tip to deserialize JSON to polymorphic classes without type information

New Technical Blogs added

DevOps

How Does Your Development Team Decide What To Do Next?

(2 votes) by Rob Kraft (updated 5 days ago)

A development team should consider many factors before picking an item from the product backlog to work on. Here are some examples of how features may be selected for development.

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