Developer Snapshot: The little news from last week

Here’s a little overview of everything for the weekend that didn’t make it into the news, but we still think is exciting:

Advertisement

• The team behind nginx has changed version management: the web server is Mercurial instead Now located on GitHub. The new community area is located under GitHub Discussions.
• DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest lives up to its name again in October this year And it is aimed at the open source community. Anyone who wants to participate can register from September 23 to October 31 and must contribute four high-quality pull/merge requests to open source projects in October that will be accepted by the project maintainers.
• Keycloak Conference KeyCon24 It’s already sold out, but if you haven’t bought a ticket you can watch the live stream for free on the website on September 19. Who Registered via Meetupobtains more information.
• Jetpack Compose APIs for creating adaptive layouts with Material 3 are now stable, As announced by Google. There are adaptive libraries – such as the Android UI Toolkit Jetpack Compose Self – Layered into multiple dependencies so that developers can choose the level of abstraction that best suits their application.

EnterJS React 19 Days: Workshop on new React features

• Unicode Consortium releases version 16.0.0 A new major release, now including approximately 155,000 characters in total. New features include thousands of additional Egyptian hieroglyphic characters and over 700 symbols from older computer environments.
• The development team behind the Go programming language is calling on developers to share their experiences Go Developer Survey to share. Among other things, the feedback should help better understand Go usage, challenges in using the language, and desired features and support. The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes and is ongoing By 23 September,
• Anyone who uses Apache Beam for data pipelines will be interested in this Version 2.59 Some improvements and new features. When loading a model and making inferences with it RunInference This can now be done via with_exception_handling Configure a timeout. The local runner Prism, which is already available as standard for Go, can also be used from the SDK for Python and Java from Beam 2.59 – but initially only with experimental support.
• The Berlin Expert Days event team invites you to the event on September 19 and 20, 2024 The eleventh edition of BED-Con In the Rooms of Urania. Developer Conference Program As always, it covers a wide range of topics, from programming languages ​​to accessibility and from experience reports to social aspects in software development.

If you missed any important topics, we look forward to receiving your email.

(Map)