PERL,INGRES,PROGRAMMING

  The concept of hardened images has been picking up lately. The logic behind them is to address the issues arising from running container images. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/240-devops/18526-bellsoft-introduces-hardened-container-images.html

  It's Advent, the time of year when we countdown the days to Christmas having fun doing daily coding challenges. Advents, in the programming sense, are events hosting programming puzzles announced every day till Christmas, aimed at a variety of skill levels. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/204-challenges/18494-advent-of-code-2025-commences.html

  A new course, thanks to Andrew Ng and his partnership with Box, that shows how you can leverage MCP servers to offload otherwise laborious and custom-made work. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18489-build-ai-apps-with-mcp-servers-with-deeplearningai.html

  The official release of Vaadin MCP server is a reality. What does it make different? Yes I'm a fan of Vaadin. I've used it in a couple of projects and productivity was sky high. For those not initiated to the framework, Vaadin allows you to write Java code for the front-end and back-end; no Javascript required, which is an unlikely dream for full stack engineers that nevertheless turned to reality. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18481-vaadin-now-does-mcp.html

  DPAI is an open platform for benchmarking AI coding Agents. Haven't we got enough benchmarks and evaluations already? To answer this question, yes we have; but for LLM performance, not coding agent performance. And by that we mean comparing for instance: Anthropic Claude Code CLI AI Agent            vs Google Gemini CLI AI Agent           vs JetBrains Junie AI Agent (Claude Sonnet)           vs JetBrains Junie AI Agent (GPT 5)          vs OpenAI Codex CLI AI Agent https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18475-jetbrains-developer-productivity-ai-arena-is-a-game-changer.html

The more elaborate the prompt the better the outcome. But how do I construct a really great prompt? The answer to that question is given by this free, official Anthropic step-by-step guide which shows how to construct prompts that get optimal answers out of the Claude LLM. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18470-anthropics-prompt-engineering-tutorial.html

  Deepnote, hailed as the Jupyter Notebook successor, is now open-sourced after 7 years running as a sole cloud offering. The main pain point that Deepnote addresses is the limitation of the single-player notebook. Jupyter's age means it was created in a pre-cloud, pre-collaboration and pre-AI era. The times now require reactive and collaborative tools that integrate into your existing stack https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/18467-deepnote-goes-opensource-.html

  InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3.6 for both Core and Enterprise, a  new version which incorporates AI and performance improvements. But, first of all what's the difference between Core and Enterprise? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18465-influxdb-36-released-with-ai-capabilities.html

  EuroLLM is a fully open-sourced large language model made in Europe and built to support all twenty-four official EU languages. While several European states have separately produced their own LLMs, such as Greece's "Meltemi" or the recent offering from Switzerland "Apertus", there was no solution that catered for the languages of all 24 states belonging to the EU block. The time has come for this status to change with the appearance of EuroLLM, a foundational model that supports them all. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18448-europe-gets-its-own-llm.html

  A new major version of Grails has been announced, together with news of its graduation to an Apache top-level project. Despite its already long life, which began in 2005, the venerable JVM project just got out of incubation, graduating to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. What is the importance of that? https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18441-apache-grails-70-released.html