Developers Stories for 2010

Why Teach Programming With BASIC? 709
Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data 154
Hello, Android Third Edition 74
Joel Test Updated 182
Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? 545
VLC For Android May Arrive In Early 2011 90
A Real World HTML 5 Benchmark 163
Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law 166
23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl 99
10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier 246
Do High Schools Know What 'Computer Science' Is? 564
RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's 206
Google Donates Windowbuilder, Codepro To Eclipse 150
Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle Form Patent Bloc 113
Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL 178
Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 263
TIME Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of Year 317
Scientists Create Programmable Bacteria 117
Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants 106
Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy 142
Oracle Asks Apache To Rethink Java Committee Exit 266
RIP, SunSolve 100
Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee 136
Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source 408
Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor 200
Programming Mistakes To Avoid 394
'I Just Need a Programmer' 735
Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer? 494
Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel 191
Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? 213
Advent Calendar For Geeks 65
Linus On Branching Practices 90
Combining Two Kinects To Make Better 3D Video 106
SAP Ordered To Pay $1.3 Billion To Oracle 151
Symbian Foundation Sites To Close 78
What Software Specification Tools Do You Use? 200
Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway 140
Google, Microsoft Cheat On Slow-Start — Should You? 123
CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool 104
60 Years of Hamming Codes 66
Sony Adopts Objective-C and GNUstep Frameworks 345
The Details of Oracle's JDK 7 and 8 'Plan B' 204
Code-Stealing Drone Vendor Settles With Devs 28
Japanese Game Developers Go West 84
Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases? 222
An Illustrated Version Control Timeline 244
Microsoft Finally Certifies an Open Source Web App 87
Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 84
Oracle Solaris 11 Express Released 160
Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? 510
Which Language To Learn? 897
Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick 88
CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy 385
The Coming War Over the Future of Java 583
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement 236
World of Goo Dev Wants Big Publishers To Build Indie Teams 74
NSA Says Its Secure Dev Methods Are Publicly Known 114
What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? 160
Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java 428
Gosu Programming Language Released To Public 330
The Linux Programming Interface 73
FBI Watching Oracle-SAP Trial 66
Oracle To Monetize Java VM 641
A JavaScript Gameboy Emulator, Detailed In 8 Parts 62
Microsoft Open Sources F# 212
Tesla Roadster Data Logging Format Reverse Engineered 141
HP CEO Goes On the Lam As Oracle Hunts Him Down 137
A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? 395
Oracle Shells Out $1B To Buy ATG 109
Developing StarCraft 2 Build Orders With Genetic Algorithms 200
Facebook Punishes Devs Who Shared User IDs 71
33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org 500
Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! 728
KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt 196
John Carmack On RAGE For iOS/Android 105
Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' 212
IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations 470
Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code 675
Oracle Needs a Clue As Brain Drain Accelerates 388
New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code 216
Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem 394
Taco Bell Programming 394
Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation 436
Beware the Garden of Steven 580
Where Are the Original PC Programmers Now? 124
Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems 157
Apple Deprecates Their JVM 451
A Tidal Wave of Java Flaw Exploitation 238
Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave 589
AOL Spends $1M On Solid State Memory SAN 158
New Site Aims To Be iTunes For Exploits 55
StarCraft AI Competition Results 113
Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ 553
Casio Unveils New Color Screen Graphing Calculator 313
Oracle's Newest Move To Undermine Android 342
Grad Student Looking To Contribute To Open Source 283
IBM and Oracle To Collaborate On OpenJDK 160
NSF Wants To Know How Much Software Really Costs 181
Software Evolution Storylines, Inspired By XKCD 136
Simple Virus For Teaching? 366
Linux Kernel Development 3rd Ed 53
Code Repository Atlassian Buys Competitor BitBucket 150
HDCP Encryption/Decryption Code Released 225
Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads 337
Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU 151
1K JavaScript Madness 131
OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice 648
Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS 328
Why Browsers Blamed DNS For Facebook Outage 96
Competition Produces Vandalism Detection For Wikis 62
Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices? 403
Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime 103
HTML5: Up and Running 31
Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs 210
Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck 210
First Installment of Xiph.org's 'Digital Video Primer For Geeks' 86
Security Lessons Learned From the Diaspora Launch 338
Elo Chess Rating System Topped By Proposed Replacements 102
The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel 177
Ex-HP CEO Hurd Pays $14 Million Oracle Pledge Fee 77
Codec2 — an Open Source, Low-Bandwidth Voice Codec 179
PostgreSQL 9.0 Released 344
Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box 82
Learning By Playing 49
Security a Concern As HTML5 Advances 234
Microsoft Releases Final Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools 170
Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' 340
Teaching Game Development To Fine Arts Students? 172
Haystack and the Myth of the Boy Wizard 127
Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed 306
Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? 426
Copying Trumps Creating For FarmVille Creator Zynga 319
Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds "Colossus" 65
Apple's Developer Tools Turnaround 'Great News' For Adobe 234
Oracle, NetApp Drop ZFS Patent Suit 66
Apple Relaxes iOS Development Tool Restrictions 347
Mozilla Labs To Promote Open Web Gaming 127
The State of Mapping APIs, 5 Years On 100
HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle 301
Former HP CEO Selected As Oracle Co-President 133
Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier 590
Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable 272
Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age 602
Rails 3.0 Released 110
iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced 432
Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs 187
What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? 462
Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License 164
Google Backs Out of JavaOne 344
Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source 207
Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month 273
.Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft 377
Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists 282
Glibc Is Finally Free Software 337
'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines 426
More Devs Going Indie, To Gamers' Benefit 137
EA Says Game Development Budgets Have Peaked 157
OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself 198
The Case For Oracle 341
Google Starts Charging a Signup Fee For Chrome Extension Developers 132
Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change 179
Throwing Out Software That Works 622
Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl 84
Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series 245
Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound 118
Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM 126
Legal Analysis of Oracle v. Google 206
Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 379
Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally 311
How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? 396
How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data? 235
Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI 64
The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed 342
The Risks of Entering Programming Contests 154
Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages 443
Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents 510
KDE 4.5 Released 302
How Death Rally Got Ported 89
CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead 115
Cache On Delivery — Memcached Opens an Accidental Security Hole 149
Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris 161
NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project 218
How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? 565
First GNOME Census Results 175
TI Calculator DRM Defeated 234
How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? 346
Justice Department Joins Fraud Lawsuit Against Oracle 100
Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market 184
An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control 144
Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems 91
High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay 1018
Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games 438
Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star 220
Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse 397
Java IO Faster Than NIO 270
If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company 237
OpenGL 4.1 Specification Announced 167
Encoding Video For Mobile Devices? 177
Frustration and Unhappiness In the Games Industry 422
Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ 878
WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd 571
Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment 152
Cool, Science-y Masters Programs For Software Devs? 150
Damn Vulnerable Linux — Most Vulnerable Linux Ever 227
Developing a Niche Online-Content Indexing System? 134
Adding CSS3 Support To IE 6, 7 and 8 With CSS3 Pie 142
Measuring LAMP Competency? 453
Why 'Gaming' Chips Are Moving Into the Server Room 137
OpenSolaris Governing Board Closing Shop? 234
How To Use HTML5 Today 155
Good Database Design Books? 291
Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 256
Cisco Says Vegas Conference Attendees' Information Was Leaked 97
Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers 775
Good IC / Electronic Component Inventory Software? 70
Symbian, the Biggest Mobile OS No One Talks About 423
Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? 151
Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles 276
Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options 202
In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable 349
Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers 612
Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI 109
Leaked MS Presentation Shows App Store Plans For Windows 8 339
VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg 218
UK Video Game Tax Cuts Sabotaged? 123
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
Security For Open Source Web Projects? 105
Open Source Geographic Tracking? 84
Finance, Scientific Users Get ActivePython Updates 131
Skype Releases Open SDK 108
How HTML5 Will Change the Web 208
Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge 436
Blender 2.49 Scripting 51
Better Development Through Competition? 251
Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? 347
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names 773
Developers' New Opportunity — Retailers' Open APIs 45
First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241
US Sues Oracle Over Alleged Overcharging 164
Parallel Programming For the Arduino 140
In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat 359
Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? 327
Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm 364
Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote 244
Knuth Got It Wrong 298
North Korean Flash Games For Export 211
MySQL Outpacing Oracle In Wake of Acquisition 157
Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers 195
Open Data and a Critical Citizenry 50

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