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Getting Going With RAG - nikosv reports that IBM has produced a cookbook of tips and methodologies on how to use RAG to power up any kind of business applications and looks at Microsoft's MarkitDown utility. i-programmer.info/news/105-artif…

Android Studio Ladybug Adds Gemini Interactions - The new version includes ways to interact with Gemini but developer feedback confirms that, true to its name, it is still buggy. i-programmer.info/news/193-andro…

Zasper - The JupyterLab Alternative - nikosv introduces Zasper, a supercharged IDE written in Go, originally as a front-end interface to JupyterLab, that allows you to run data science workloads locally and efficiently. i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/…

Robots That Learn - The recorded lectures and webinars of the Robot Learning lecture series run by Professor Jitendra Malik at UC Berkeley have been released as a YouTube playlist. nikosv has the details. i-programmer.info/news/169-robot…

Unitree G1 - See How It Runs - Chinese robotics company Unitree has made a significant breakthrough with its G1 humanoid robot which walks and runs in a convincingly natural way. This is thanks to its advanced hip joint design. See the G1 in action! i-programmer.info/news/169-robot…

JetBrains Junie - An AI Coding Agent -JetBrains has launched Junie, an AI coding agent, that the company says is redefining how we code by using its "agentic power" for co-creation right in your IDE. i-programmer.info/news/87-web-de…

Join The Web Component JavaScript Frameworks Party - A place where you can compare common task syntax between top web component JavaScript frameworks. nikosv introduces a very useful resource. i-programmer.info/news/87-web-de…

React Key Concepts, 2nd Ed by Max Schwarzmüller Maximilian (Packt Publishing) is today's selection by bookwatch. This updated edition includes changes brought by React 19 and covers how to think about React on the server. i-programmer.info/book-watch-arc…

Sqlime - Αn Online SQLite Playground SQLite lives in the browser thanks to WebAssembly. With Sqlime you can run your workload online with no need of setting up anything. nikosv explains. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…

Terraform Fork OpenTofu 1.9 Adds Provider Iteration OpenTofu 's open-source infrastructure as code tool is a fork of HashiCorp's Terraform and has been developed with backing from the The Linux Foundation. Kay Ewbank reports. i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/…

Vesuvius Challenge 2024 Concludes - Two submissions, from Hendrik Schilling and Sean Johnson and from Paul Henderson for Vesuvius Challenge First Augmented Segmentation Prize have each been awarded $30,000. i-programmer.info/news/204-chall…

Rust Foundation Update On Goals - Kay Ewbank reports that the Rust Foundation team has now provided an end-of-year update on progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). i-programmer.info/news/98-langua…

InfluxDB 3 Core Released In Public Alpha - Core, the new open source offering from InfluxData, promises enhanced performance and more freedom in using it under a permissive license. nikosv has the details. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…

February Week 2 - If you've not visited I Programmer before, our Weekly Digest gives you a taster. It lists our wide ranging news and the week's addition to Book Watch Archive. In this week's top feature nikosv asks Where's Java Going In 2025? -i-programmer.info/i-programmer-w…

C++ For The 21st Century - Mike James adds his own opinions on C++ to those of Bjarne Stroustrup, "Today it is a mess of a language which gives the programmer far to much scope for expression. This is a good thing for a poem, not so much for a program." i-programmer.info/news/184-cc/17…

Java Now Speaks Model Context Protocol - Java SDK implementation of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol ported in collaboration with Spring AI, gets to version 0.70, opening way for Java to enjoy transparent interoperability with AI services. nikosv i-programmer.info/news/80-java/1…

FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards - Kay Ewbank reports that nominations are open for this year's Free Software Foundation (FSF) @[email protected] Free Software Awards which demonstrate appreciation of efforts of members of the free software community. Anybody can make a nomination. i-programmer.info/news/239-award…

The Advanced + Agentic RAG Cookbooks - nikosv takes a look at a repository containing a wealth of advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) resources from Athina AI that also includes RAG techniques for the latest trend of Agentic systems. i-programmer.info/news/105-artif…

PyPI Looks To Paid Services - The team responsible for the Python Package Index software repository has announced a move towards some payments for services to enable the developers to devote enough resources to meet user demands. Kay Ewbank reports, i-programmer.info/news/216-pytho…

Stackql - The New Approach To Querying And Provisioning Cloud Services nikosv writes "Use SQL For Everything Part 2" this time introducing stackql, a tool enables the use of SQL for querying everything, but with a twist. i-programmer.info/news/84-databa…