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  This year the event that aims to provide a coding experience for all school students and anyone else who wants to join in runs between December 9th and 15th and includes new activities. Let's find out all about it! https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17664-hour-of-code-2024-is-about-to-kick-off.html

  PlanetScale, the cloud MySQL-compatible database with advanced scaling capabilities, is now upgraded with vector storage and search. PlanetScale's main selling points include horizontal sharding and non-blocking schema changes. Adding vector capabilities into the mix, makes it an even more robust and flexible database solution. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17658-planetscale-gets-into-vector-search.html

  A repository containing any PostgreSQL extension you can imagine for Linux distributions is something that might be valuable if you are trying to save some time. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17674-the-postgresql-extension-repo-by-pigsty.html

  pg_parquet is a new extension by Crunchy Data that allows a PostgreSQL instance to work with Parquet files. With pg_duckdb, pg_analytics and pg_mooncake all of which can access Parquet files, is there need for yet another extension? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17652-pgparquet-postgres-to-parquet-interoperability.html

  The open source developer tool for building, distributing, and running serverless WebAssembly applications reaches version 3.0. What's new? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17642-fermyons-spin-webassembly-version-30-released.html

  This year's premium conference for PostgreSQL took place in Athens, Greece between October 22-25. The nice Athenian weather and cultural aspect aside, the conference was a big hit too. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17638-highlights-of-the-europe-2024-postgresql-conference.html

  A few months ago the OpenAI .NET library was released as a beta. It has now reached version 2.0.0 and the time has come to leave beta and, with a few amendments enter production readiness. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/17628-openai-library-for-net-exits-beta.html

  Introducing a GitHub repository full of hot tips and instructions on how to build the perfect prompt presented in a collection of Jupiter Notebooks. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17627-prompt-engineering-techniques-to-make-you-an-expert.html

  The offspring of that partnership is pg_duckdb, an extension that embeds the DuckDB engine into the PostgreSQL database, allowing it to handle analytical workloads. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17611-duckdb-and-hydra-partner-to-get-duckdb-into-postgresql-.html

  Ursina is a new open source game engine in which you can code any type of game in Python, be it 2-D, 3-D, an application, a visualization, you name it. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/17606-ursina-a-game-engine-powered-by-python.html