Developers Stories for 2011

Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo 38
Open Source IDE GAMBAS Reaches 3.0 137
Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update 156
Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? 848
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? 237
Ask Slashdot: Geek-Centric Magazines Still Published On Paper? 125
Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? 783
What If Babbage Had Succeeded? 212
Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? 240
East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent 235
ISO Updates C Standard 378
Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? 268
Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials 102
Project To Mainline Android Kernel Changes Formed 73
October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code 136
Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved 330
MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases 68
MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data 29
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines 307
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast 808
Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android 614
Qt 4.8.0 Released 90
Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University 359
Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows 753
NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler 89
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? 360
Facebook Releases JIT PHP Compiler 244
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion 154
Silverlight 5 Released 107
Why We Need More Programming Languages 421
Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least 435
IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools 50
Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? 387
Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures 103
The Rise of Developeronomics 253
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? 424
Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? 653
Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? 287
Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? 848
Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree 105
Ruby Clouds: Engine Yard Vs. Heroku 41
Why Was Hypercard Killed? 392
Reading, Writing, Ruby? 292
How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired? 523
QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi 80
Linaro Releases Ice Cream Sandwich Builds For iMX53 and Other Boards 20
Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses 161
Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed 248
Canonical Drops CouchDB From Ubuntu One 93
The Many Names of Linux Kernels 73
OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript 167
Is HP Paying Intel To Keep Itanium Alive? 216
JavaScript JVM Runs Java 234
Microsoft To Back Kinect-Based Startups 200
Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing 480
The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics 203
Occupy Flash? 507
Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets 151
Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? 378
First Look: Oracle NoSQL Database 117
Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community 158
Minecraft Is Finished 272
The IOCCC Competition Is Back 201
A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California 309
Ask Slashdot: Physical Input Devices For Developers? 147
Will Adobe's HTML5 Strategy Help Developers? 129
With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets 212
Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing 132
Programming Cells, With CellOS 58
Solaris 11 Released 224
IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru 112
How Do I Get Back a Passion For Programming? 516
Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers 485
Experimental Virtual Graphics Port Support For Linux 74
Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings 185
Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness 189
Eclipse Launches New Programming Language 238
Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? 151
Apache Harmony Moves To Apache Attic 120
Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development? 330
Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard 260
Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates 743
Open Source Eclipse Celebrates 10th Birthday 90
Is the Apple App Store a Casino? 542
Google Maps To Charge For API Usage 141
Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than 487
Ask Slashdot: Learning Dart Development? 107
Rethinking the Nature of Files 369
Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? 165
Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer 422
Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software 15
Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? 538
Oracle-Google Trial Won't Start Until Next Year 60
Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life 289
John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away 354
Analysis of Google Dart 171
Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile 357
Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System 76
Web Apps Language Opa Gets a Web-Based IDE 83
Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? 315
Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It 195
Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders 177
Open Source CPUs Coming To a Club Near You? 54
OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source 270
Will Apple Let Siri and Apps Connect? 185
Coding Games In 48 Hours 99
Mojolicious 2.0: Modern Perl For the Web 132
OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) 298
Remirroring Mark Pilgrim's Sites 46
Linux Kernel Developer Declares VirtualBox Driver "Crap" 357
Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments? 362
Google Starts to Detail Dart 219
.NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro 319
Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java 292
Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux 155
The Games Programmers Play 163
Google Apps Engine Gets SQL 66
Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? 735
Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit 114
Ask Slashdot: Good, Relevant Usability Book? 173
Searching For Mark Pilgrim 89
Ask Slashdot: Spreading the Word About At-Risk Open Source Projects? 115
Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing 180
Oracle's Plans for Java Unveiled at JavaOne 155
Welcome Back Kernel.org 94
Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control 33
Unreal Engine 3 Running In Flash 138
R7RS Scheme Progress Report 47
OCaml For the Masses 338
Is Off-Shoring a National Security Threat? 319
Deadline Approaches For Registration In Stanford's Free CS Classes 89
BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End 62
Prototyping Boards Make It Easier To Find Flaws in Specialized Hardware 56
Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated 119
How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way 354
To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework 309
Book Review: Scalability Rules 54
Is the Sparc T4 Too Little Too Late? 128
Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? 314
Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor 127
Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves 137
Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware 81
Linus' Lessons On Software Dev Management 132
Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions 121
Windows 8 Introduces a New Cross-App Data-Sharing System 213
The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It 482
Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart 198
HP Begins Laying Off WebOS Developers, Potentially Firing CEO 178
Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config 22
Client-side Web REPL For 15+ Languages 38
Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle 495
Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions 171
River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript 134
British Schoolkids To Be Taught Computer Coding 247
Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software 171
The Google+ API Is Released 154
Book Review: Metasploit The Penetration Tester's Guide 24
Neal Gafter On Java Under Oracle 130
More Info On Google's Alternative To JavaScript 247
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview 266
Skein Hash... In Bash 90
Happy Programmer Day! 97
PostgreSQL 9.1 Released 148
Type Safety Coming To DB Queries 128
Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? 427
Code Hero: Play and Learn 101
Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices 39
SAP To Plead Guilty For Downloading Oracle Software 43
Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart 250
Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed 284
Judge Wants Ellison, Page To Settle Differences 83
Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From? 329
Interview With the Creator of Ruby 89
What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? 624
Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard 362
JavaScript Toolkit V1.1.0 Released 65
Judge Nixes, Lowers Oracle's $1.3B Award Against SAP 48
Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language 425
James Gosling Leaves Google 192
Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On Its New Python IDE 303
US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger 169
A Talk With Syllable OS Lead Developer Kaj de Vos 121
Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence 123
Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide' 394
Like a Redstone Cowboy 166
Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github 105
Python Fiddle, an IDE That Runs In Your Browser 113
Google Is Grooming Chrome As a Game Platform 127
Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent 253
Aaron Seigo On KDE SC 5.0 — and What Getting There Means 157
Java 7: What's In It For Developers 338
Oracle vs Google: Copyright Claims Must Remain 166
GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack 166
Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7 165
Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces 128
Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones 209
Book Review: The Python Standard Library By Example 33
C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code 616
Virtual Lab Rat Saves Human Lives 69
App Inventor Continues Life at MIT 23
C++0x Finally Becomes a Standard 398
Hard Truths About HTML5 265
Fluidinfo, Wikipedia For Databases 79
See the PyPy JIT In Action 109
Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client 209
Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? 772
Six Python Web Frameworks Compared 111
Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses 236
Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.2 Specification 98
KDE Frameworks 5.0 In Development 227
KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 413
DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects 44
Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility 117
Twitter To Open Source Streaming Data Analyzer 11
What Today's Coders Don't Know and Why It Matters 368
Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year 210
Xamarin's First Mono Release - Proof of Life! 95
Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online 148
Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community 314
Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android 294
Was .NET All a Mistake? 688
Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server 303
The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake 594
Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev 346
DARPA Developing Video Parser 29
Escaping Infinite Loops 204
Email In Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public 114
Ask Slashdot: Using Code With an Expired Patent? 139
How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries 791
Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched 194
Chinese Firm Launches Cloud-Based Mobile OS 33
Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug 180
Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 295
Girls Go Geek Again 378
Oracle Announces Java SE 7 204
The Rise of Git 442
Sun CEO Explicitly Endorsed Java's Use In Android 204
'The Code Has Already Been Written' 253
FDA To Scrutinize Mobile Medical Apps 142
Oracle Ordered To Lower Damages Claim On Google 204
Lodsys Now Suing EA, Atari, Rovio and More 84
Google: Sun Offered To License Java For $100M 173
Linux Kernel 3.0 Released 181
Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount 226
Making Sense of the NoSQL Standouts 152
Windows XP In a Browser 217
World's Largest Visualization Analytics Display 24
Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas 250

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