Developers Stories for 2008

Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick" 676
Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive 465
Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista 258
Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users 178
If Programming Languages Were Religions 844
Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? 165
64-Bit Java For Linux 387
Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company? 223
Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Now Final 57
Oracle Adds Data-integrity Code To Linux Kernel 53
iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers 437
Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? 592
Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download 68
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers 538
Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations 75
Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming 326
FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents 58
Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant 155
Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? 438
Free Resources for Windows Perl Development 117
What Programming Language For Linux Development? 997
What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? 225
Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? 620
Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Spur Research 82
Sun Releases JavaFX 185
Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent 208
Python 3.0 Released 357
A Look At Modern Game AI 87
Model-View-Controller — Misunderstood and Misused 221
Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake 268
MySQL in a Nutshell 86
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par 175
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311
Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? 747
Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC 303
jQuery in Action 154
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns 199
Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source 127
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours 166
Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? 729
Integrating the Web Into Games 52
Can You Be Denied the Right To Support OSS? 212
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Setting Up a Home Dev/Testing Environment? 136
Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler 216
The Importance of Procedural Content Generation In Games 160
When Agile Projects Go Bad 139
IP Rights For Games Made In School? 128
16 Interviews With Linux Kernel Hackers 72
Distributed Compilation, a Programmer's Delight 60
O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates 44
Java Trial Support Coming In Linux Standard Base 126
(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? 516
Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby 255
Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform 73
How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? 230
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? 175
ODF Toolkit Announced 71
How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me? 285
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? 412
Getting Started In Android Game Development 43
Microsoft's Internal Advice About Patents 100
Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? 429
Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux 213
Programming .NET 3.5 224
Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code 101
HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers 32
Windows Azure Offers Developers Iron-Clad Lock-in 227
Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC 54
Sony Opens PS2 Platform 77
TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors 194
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87
Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? 680
Nintendo's Homebrew-Blocking Update Hacked 157
PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist 523
Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative 164
Which Phone To Develop For? 344
Cobol Job Market Heating Up 288
A Look At Successful Game Mods 287
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library 85
Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? 667
Google Opens Up Android Codebase 204
eBay Makes Huge Gains In Parallel Efficiency 47
Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding 139
Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers 31
Publishing a Commercial iPhone Game, Start To Finish 38
6 Languages You Wish the Boss Let You Use 264
PHP5 CMS Framework Development 72
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud 397
Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? 540
10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting 190
Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight 300
Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" 334
Loebner Talks AI 107
How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course? 452
Computer-Aided Lego Art Project 112
David Axmark Resigns From Sun 229
Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript 157
Landing IT Work Overseas 194
New Contestants On the Turing Test 630
Where's the "IronPerl" Project? 390
Good Books On Programming With Threads? 176
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced 151
OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide 48
Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? 654
Game Devs Using One-Time Bonuses to Fight Used Game Sales 229
Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source 383
Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers 88
6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night 67
e1000e Bug Squashed — Linux Kernel Patch Released 111
Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month 184
How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding 187
How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux 380
Apple Drops Part of iPhone Developer NDA 175
C# In-Depth 499
Roku To Go Open Source 140
Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro 354
Working Effectively with Legacy Code 208
Becoming a Famous Programmer 347
Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework 126
Fallout From the Activision and Vivendi Merger 51
What To Do Right As a New Programmer? 662
Developers Will Get Windows 7 Alpha On Oct. 28 83
Oracle To Sell Database Hardware 93
SDK Shoot Out, Android Vs. IPhone 413
Has Google Redefined Beta? 292
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time 623
Clean Code 214
Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app 464
Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed 270
Don't Count Cobol Out 274
Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule 439
Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? 538
Designing Difficulty Options In Games 110
Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site 187
Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? 144
Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers 28
Getting an Independent Project Started? 229
The Development of Braid 27
Examining Chrome's Source Code 288
A General Guide For Mod Creation 29
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development 39
In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads 397
The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis 263
Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko 632
HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail 128
Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome 114
MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) 148
Objective-J and Cappuccino Released 56
The Electronic Bastille 267
Django 1.0 Released 104
Top Technologies of Next-Gen Gaming 77
The Making of Bioshock 281
AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting 63
Ask Harald Welte, "VIA's open source representative" 56
Local Web Server For Web Development? 82
Java, Where To Start? 558
Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? 836
ESPN and TopCoder Run College Football Algorithm Challenge 22
Google Awards Android Dev Prizes, Introduces App Store 52
Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? 124
The State of Scripting Languages 415
Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug 234
Cell Phones For Easy App Development? 97
Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008 109
MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL 99
Examining Portal's Teleportation Code 278
Terror Watchlist "Crippled By Technical Flaws" 324
Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? 308
The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling 217
Legal Group Releases Guide To GPL Compliance 141
Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost 462
Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x 589
Was Standardizing On JavaScript a Mistake? 525
Bridging the Gap Between Art and Code In Games 42
My Job Went To India 396
Why Corporates Hate Perl 963
An Intro To OpenSim, the Apache of Virtual Worlds 87
OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO 61
Torvalds Says It's No Picnic To Become Major Linux Coder 222
Boost 1.36 Released 166
Sun Open-Sources Java UI Toolkit 59
Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent? 617
Easy Encryption In Java and Python With Keyczar 19
Software Logging Schemes? 225
ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead 168
Rare Q&A With Rockstar Games Head Sam Houser 89
Linux Foundation Paving Way for New Kernel Developers 46
How Can You Measure a Wiki's Worth? 78
New SQL Injection Attack Fuses Malware, Phishing 202
OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious 643
Official Support For PHP 4 Ends 245
Open Source Helps New IT Grads Get Foot in the Door 128
T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones 103
Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress 496
How To Sell a Video Game Idea? 351
Why COBOL Could Come Back 405
California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL 1139
Diagramming Tool For SQL Select Statements 156
How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software 690
Developing On the PS3 Under Fedora 122
Emergency Workaround For Oracle 0-Day 152
Final Days For Hackontest Selection of Projects 7
Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion? 99
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed 312
VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux 131
JavaScript: The Good Parts 162
Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? 286
EC2 Vs. App Engine Vs. GoGrid Vs. AppNexus 109
Practical Django Projects 151
Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web 370
Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? 470
Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone 305
Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers 321
How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? 1095
Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk 86
Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce 68
Web 2.0 Lessons For Corporate Dev Teams 142
IPhone 3G Jailbreak Released, Paves Way For Open Source Apps 382
Guide For Small Team Programming? 220
Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference 113
Best and Worst Coding Standards? 956
The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop 90
Reusing and Recycling Code 114
Linux's Security Through Obscurity 215
MySQL Readies Release Candidate For 5.1 168
Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective 130
MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach 128
How To Show Code Samples? 485
The Web Development Skills Crisis 471
11th Annual ICFP Contest Begins 22
The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander 152
33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD 162
Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format 332
Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? 519
Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? 1021
The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? 375
Head First C# 243
German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records 122
Scaling Large Projects With Erlang 200
Quake Editor Tread 3.0 Alpha Released 27
Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language 102
Google Gives Away Web App Security Tool 30
Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? 763
Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design 173
9 Reasons Why Developers Think the CIO Is Clueless 275
Non-Programming Jobs For a Computer Science Major? 936
Google Browser Sync Source Released 33

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