Developers Stories for 2009

Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? 605
IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193
5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open 162
Ruby In Practice 104
GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar 198
How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? 799
Cygwin 1.7 Released 203
All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop 443
Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl 130
Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 597
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? 426
Palm Pre Development In the Browser 53
The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook 752
First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released 95
Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? 558
What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? 428
Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns 156
PayPal Offers $150,000 In Developer Challenge 80
The Book of Xen 88
Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands 278
Music While Programming? 1019
Documentation Compliance Means MS Can Resume Collecting Protocol Royalties 139
ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158
The Perl 6 Advent Calendar 160
Defining Useful Coding Practices? 477
Over 160 Tutorial Videos Created For Unreal Dev Kit 48
Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets 279
Is Linux Documentation Lacking? 769
Service Oriented Architecture With Java 110
Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser 531
Nokia Releases Qt 4.6 6
Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals 84
Archos Releases Dev Edition Firmware For Tablets 63
Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools 496
Building 3D Models On the Fly With a Webcam 93
Dumbing Down Programming? 578
Senators Ask EC To Let Oracle-Sun Deal Go Through 183
Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses 173
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder 291
The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89
Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE 154
Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer 269
Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store 485
Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed 275
Ask Sam Ramji About the CodePlex Foundation 77
We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance 260
Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework 320
If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly 660
Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? 836
Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools 200
StarCraft AI Competition Announced 200
Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" 512
Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language 831
EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun 334
The NoSQL Ecosystem 381
Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans 151
How Google Uses Linux 155
Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners 87
Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools 158
Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine 217
X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions 542
Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code 234
Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone 133
Android 2.0 SDK Released, Google Maps Navigation Announced 121
Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android 244
Amazon Cloud Adds Hosted MySQL 173
HTC Finally Releases Hero Source Code 123
Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing 212
Sun Microsystems To Cut 3,000 Jobs As Oracle Deal Drags On 251
How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments? 244
MySQL Cofounder Says Oracle Should Sell Database To a Neutral 3d Party 207
Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? 579
How To List FOSS Experience On Your Resume 103
The Sad State of the Mobile Web 220
Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2 521
Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store 305
Game Development On Android 211
Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark? 467
Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" 619
Platform Independent C++ OS Library? 310
Mickos Urges EU To Approve Oracle's MySQL Takeover 67
Adobe's iPhone Hail Mary 115
Squatters Abusing iPhone App Store 121
Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame 117
Palm Frees Up webOS Development 117
De Icaza Responds To Stallman 747
"Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0 433
Best Developer's Laptop? 672
Perl 5.11.0 Released 235
Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy 336
Open Source Not Welcome At Palm App Catalog 174
Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims 81
Google Wave Backstage 132
Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google 152
The Kafka-esque Nightmare of Palm App Submission 332
The Duct Tape Programmer 551
Data Locking In a Web Application? 283
Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006 79
According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated" 639
COBOL Celebrates 50 Years 277
Why Developers Get Fired 535
Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder? 318
Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser 176
DragonFly 2.4 Released 73
Google Releases the SDK For Version 1.6 of Android 69
Oracle Ends Partnership With HP 45
iPhone Gets .Net App Development 327
Initial WebGL Support Lands In WebKit 181
Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day 306
Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives 891
Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM 440
Oracle To Increase Investment In SPARC and Solaris 146
Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch 342
Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server 113
Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown 576
Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation 344
Has the WebOS Finally Arrived? 227
How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half 158
Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler 333
Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs 103
How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade 187
Google To Host International SVG Conference 38
Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection 61
Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders 409
IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software 284
First Hot-Ice Computer Created 120
Coders At Work 207
iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest 233
Collaborative Filtering and the Rise of Ensembles 58
Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt 263
The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug 230
Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? 434
Oracle To Sell Sun's Hardware Business To HP? 76
Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline 683
Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems 268
Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield 96
DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun 162
Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays 109
The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker 282
Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly 419
Smarter Clients Via ReverseHTTP and WebSockets 235
Scala, a Statically Typed, Functional, O-O Language 299
The Problems With Porting Games 330
Simple, Portable Physics Simulations 145
The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers? 271
Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th 118
C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? 389
14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest 141
Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 299
First Look At Palm's Mojo SDK 128
A Standardized OS For Robots 184
How Famous OS Logos Got Started 103
Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Contest 56
Neuros LINK Mixes Quiet, Aesthetics, and Ubuntu 121
21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online 74
Pitching Ideas At Gen Con Indy 26
Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released 212
Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer? 162
Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x 346
Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community 241
AMD's OpenCL Allows GPU Code To Run On X86 CPUs 176
Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App 259
Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest 26
Mario AI Competition 110
Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips 93
Emacs Hits Version 23 367
Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" 909
Sun's JRuby Team Jumps Ship To Engine Yard 77
Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire 100
Google Open Sources Wave Protocol Implementation 183
Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule 274
New Leader In Netflix Prize Race With One Day To Go 87
Copyright Status of Thermodynamic Properties? 154
The Best First Language For a Young Programmer 634
Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later 501
Google Wave Reviewed 365
'Power Capping' the Datacenter 112
Even Faster Web Sites 171
Open Source Languages Rumble At OSCON 197
Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid 122
Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? 405
How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 220
Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? 302
Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255
WebKit For Metacity/Mutter CSS Theming? 124
62% of Sun's Stockholders Vote For Oracle Deal 152
New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google 192
Google's Chiller-Less Data Center 132
Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges 544
0 A.D. Goes Open Source 88
Staying Afloat In a Sea of iPhone Apps 149
The Best Game Engines 113
The Amazing World of Software Version Numbers 321
6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL 367
Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris 205
Hello World! 199
Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? 537
How To Teach Programming To Kids, Via XBox 124
Developer Stigma After a Bad Or Catastrophic Release? 223
Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development 598
Best Mouse For Programming? 569
CJKV Information Processing 2nd ed. 52
Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? 592
Volunteer Programming For Dummies? 195
Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise" 465
Open Source Search Engine Benchmarks 62
Goldman Sachs Trading Source Code In the Wild? 324
Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule 153
Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released 153
XHTML 2 Cancelled 222
Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone 169
Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser 165
IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler 146
Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed 423
First Fully Programmable Gesture-Recognition Glove, Cheap 77
What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer? 324
NSA To Build 20-Acre Data Center In Utah 226
Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma 83
PHP 5.3 Released 120
Does the 'Hacker Ethic' Harm Today's Developers? 436
Richard Stallman Says No To Mono 1008
How To Get Out of Developer's Block? 601
IT and Health Care 294
Clutter Reaches 1.0 Release Candidate Status 78
Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux 195
Google To Promote Web Speed On New Dev Site 106
On the Humble Default 339
An Experiment In BlackBerry Development 207
Oracle Kills Virtual Iron 189
State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All 427
New PHP Interpreter Finds XSS, Injection Holes 66
The "Doctor Who" Model of Open Source 116
Defining an Indie Game Developer 99
HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight 500
Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects 48
Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report 190
Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability 177
Are Code Reviews Worth It? 345
Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating 333
Oracle Beware — Google Tests Cloud-Based Database 123
New Exploit Uses JavaScript To Compromise Intranets, VPNs 87
Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? 794
How To Sponsor an Open Source Sprint 58
Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution 49
Developer Panel Gives Its Verdict On Sony's PSP Go 55
New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming 321
How Software Engineering Differs From Computer Science 306
First Look At Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 236

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