Weekly Newsletter (5 Oct 2020)

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Weekly Poll Results Which Programming Languages are you using? Survey period: 28 Sep 2020 to 29 Sep 2020 For work or play, which of the following are you currently using, plan to use, or have used in your recent past? Option Votes %   Assembly 3 1.36 C 11 4.98 C++ 36 16.29 C# 104 47.06 Dart 2 0.90 Delphi, Modula or Pascal 5 2.26 Go 0 0.00 Java 10 4.52 JavaScript 11 4.98 Kotlin 2 0.90 Lua 0 0.00 Powershell, bash, and any shell script 1 0.45 PHP 2 0.90 Python 12 5.43 R 2 0.90 Ruby 1 0.45 Scala 1 0.45 Swift or Objective-C 1 0.45 SQL (and variants) 6 2.71 TypeScript 2 0.90 Visual Basic / VB.NET 19 8.60 Bonus: FORTRAN or COBOL 2 0.90 Other 10 4.52 Total 221   100% This week's survey: What 3rd party tools, outside of your main IDE, do you depend on for coding? Latest Additions New articles added Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Training a Humanoid AI Robot to Walk Using Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO)   (3 votes) by philoxenic (updated 5 days ago) In this article in the series we start to focus on one particular, more complex environment that PyBullet makes available: Humanoid, in which we must train a human-like agent to walk on two legs. Training a Humanoid AI Robot to Run Backwards   (3 votes) by philoxenic (updated 3 days ago) In this article we will try to train our agent to run backwards instead of forwards. Training a Humanoid AI Robot to Walk With Soft Actor Critic (SAC)   (2 votes) by philoxenic (updated 4 days ago) In this article we will adapt our code to train the Humanoid environment using a different algorithm: Soft Actor-Critic (SAC). Teaching a Robot to Walk with AI and PyBullet Environments   (1 votes) by philoxenic (updated 6 days ago) In this article, we look at two of the simpler locomotion environments that PyBullet makes available and train agents to solve them. Training a Humanoid AI Robot to Run With a Custom Model   (1 votes) by philoxenic (updated 2 days ago) In article in this series we will look at even deeper customisation: editing the XML-based model of the figure and then training the result. ASP.NET Building a Database Application in Blazor - Part 6 - Adding New Record Types   (6 votes) by Shaun C Curtis (updated 3 days ago) How to add new record types to the application and build out the services and UI components for the new types How I Got Started with Bolero!   (0 votes) by Garai Márton (updated yesterday) The first try hiccups and successes installing Bolero, a Webassembly framework for F# C / C++ Language A Z80 Assembler   (3 votes) by Ben Hanson (updated yesterday) A Z80 Assembler Client side scripting Physical Simulations in Vanilla JS   (7 votes) by Yury Yuhno (updated 5 days ago) JavaScript, HTML based physical computer models on canvas Cross Platform Driving Development of Microservices and REST APIs with Protobuf   (0 votes) by Ansel Castro (updated 5 hours ago) Leveraging Protobuf and code generation tools to drive the development of microservices and REST APIs Design and Architecture Scalable Scenario to Configuring Entity Framework DbContext   (1 votes) by Tarek Najem (updated yesterday) A new way to configure our application with the startup class using a flexible way to implement this configuration Threads, Processes & IPC Producer/Consumer Queues in C++   (2 votes) by Mircea Neacsu (updated 11 hours ago) A simple implementation for producer/consumer mechanism Articles updated Algorithms & Recipes Partially-Sampled Random Numbers for Accurate Sampling of the Beta, Exponential, and Other Continuous Distributions   (4 votes) by Peter Occil (updated yesterday) Python code for partially-sampled random numbers for accurate arbitrary-precision sampling ASP.NET Building a Database Application in Blazor - Part 2 - Services - Building the CRUD Data Layers   (3 votes) by Shaun C Curtis (updated 2 days ago) How to build the CRUD Data Layers in a Blazor Database Application C / C++ Language Asynchronous Multicast Delegates in C++   (53 votes) by David Lafreniere (updated 2 days ago) A C++ standards compliant delegate library capable of targeting any callable function synchronously or asynchronously C# C#/.NET Command Line Argument Parser Reloaded   (32 votes) by Yet another user (updated 5 days ago) Easy to use yet powerful command line argument parser which also creates usage and parameter information for the user. A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding and Implementing a CRUD APP USING Elasticsearch and C# - Part 1   (11 votes) by Paulo Henrique S.S. (updated 2 days ago) Elasticsearch and C# integration Client side scripting ColorPicker - a jQuery UI Widget   (51 votes) by Evoluteur (updated yesterday) A web color picker which looks like the one in Microsoft Office 2010 Structured-Filter - A jQuery UI Widget for Building Structured Queries   (25 votes) by Evoluteur (updated 6 days ago) A full jQuery UI widget which supports various configurations and themes Internet / Network fastJSON - Smallest, Fastest Polymorphic JSON Serializer   (400 votes) by Mehdi Gholam (updated 5 days ago) In this article I demonstrate why fastJSON is the smallest, fastest polymorphic JSON serializer (with Silverlight4, MonoDroid and .NET core support) Miscellaneous A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding and Implementing a CRUD APP using Elasticsearch and C# - Part 2   (13 votes) by Paulo Henrique S.S. (updated 2 days ago) Elasticsearch and C# integration Text to SVG Path Utility in U++   (9 votes) by Miroslav Fidler (updated 5 days ago) Creating a simple utility for converting text to SVG path in U++ Programming Languages VRCalc++ Object Oriented Scripting Language :: Vincent Radio {Adrix.NT}   (16 votes) by Vincent Radio (updated 4 days ago) VRCalc++ Engine is embeddable in any Delphi Application using Dynamic Packages Programming Tips The Psychological Reasons for Software Project Failures   (111 votes) by Łukasz Bownik (updated yesterday) This article discusses the psychological reasons of software project failures. Use Trace and TraceSource in .NET Core Logging   (6 votes) by Zijian (updated 4 hours ago) How to use Trace and TraceSource in .NET Core Logging Windows 8 Design Hex 2048 - A Numbers Game   (7 votes) by Christ Kennedy (updated 2 days ago) A graphically bouncy and colorful version of the popular numbers tile-sliding game New Tips and Tricks added C# How to Call Wolfram Alpha from Visual Studio   (0 votes) by Uladzislau Baryshchyk (updated 17 hours ago) How to use Wolfram Alpha API Libraries Using the Q42 HueApi Library   (2 votes) by andriks@home (updated 3 days ago) Windows Forms demonstration of using the Q42 HueApi library Third Party Products and Tools Using Octokit Packages to Retrieve the Details of Review Comments across Multiple Pull Requests   (2 votes) by Pusparag Subudhi (updated 5 days ago) Using Octokit to fetch Review Comments from GitHub New Technical Blogs added Client side scripting Binding CDS Data using Knockout (More Tips)   (0 votes) by YawerIqbal (updated 6 days ago) A couple of questions answered about binding CDS data using Knockout and a few more tips shared Mobile Development A Better Approach for Consuming Authorized Back-End Services while Transparently Handling Refresh Tokens Renewals for C#/Xamarin Apps   (0 votes) by Ana Carolina Zambon (updated 4 days ago) How to consume authorized back-end services while transparently handling refresh token renewals Blogs updated Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Visualization – Insights with Matplotlib   (11 votes) by Sandeep Mewara (updated yesterday) A detailed look at how to deduce insights using Matplotlib with real world examples. © 2020 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. 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