Developers Stories for 2012

Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money 113
Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released 169
GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM 68
Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? 346
Linux, Apache, Perl, X10, Webcams... and Christmas Lights 30
The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee 241
Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project? 276
Microsoft Kills Expression Suite — And Makes It Free, For Now 89
Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO 165
Real World Code Sucks 292
Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? 430
How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code 238
Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? 514
Whose Bug Is This Anyway? 241
Ask Slashdot: How Does an IT Generalist Get Back Into Programming? 224
Perl Turns 25 263
W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 113
Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? 341
Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? 101
Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules 84
Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? 219
Nokia Abruptly Closes Application Store In China For N9 66
New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework 13
PostgreSQL 9.3 Will Feature UPDATEable Views 68
Qt Developer Days 2012 Videos Released 9
Happy Birthday To Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer 60
The Scourge of Error Handling 536
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox 261
Coderdojo Inspires Coding In Kids As Young As Seven 40
Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains 404
One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators 203
How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? 438
Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) 218
Ouya Consoles Will Start Shipping On December 28th 121
In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US 491
Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? 287
Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail 75
NYC Police Gathering Cellphone Logs 122
Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK 80
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers 338
Rise of the Online Code Schools 98
What Nobody Tells You About Being a Game Dev 181
Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware 64
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction 233
Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards 373
It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director 441
Computer Science vs. Software Engineering 322
Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M 123
US Justice Dept. Sues eBay For Anti-Competitive Hiring Practices 66
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK 154
Sinofsky Dismisses Trying To Take Over Windows Phone, Developers 70
Kinected Browser Lets You Flick Through Websites 46
Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code 394
Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches 104
Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? 284
Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft 417
Emscripten Compiler Gets Optimizations, Now Self-Hosting 60
Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work? 333
Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60? 306
Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? 878
AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers 94
GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171
Nokia "Suspends" Its Free Developer Program 136
What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? 388
Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty 317
Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released 85
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Navigating the Vast Ocean of Open Source 23
More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You 277
Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers 268
The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler 586
Does Coding Style Matter? 479
Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs 795
Trouble For Microsoft Developers With the Windows Store 232
Red Hat Devs Working On ARM64 OpenJDK Port 63
Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? 823
Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? 309
The Struggles of Getting Into the App Store 329
Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working With Awful Legacy Code? 360
Researcher Develops Patch For Java Zero Day In 30 Minutes 57
System Admins Should Know How To Code 298
Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking 115
New Arduino Due Brings More Power To the Table 130
Salesforce.com's Benioff Disses Windows 8, Oracle 182
21st IOCCC Source Code Released 24
Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth 98
OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice 266
Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed 342
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Paid For Open-Sourcing Your Work? 167
The FSF Adopts the Kickstarter Approach To Fund-raising 35
Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) 53
From a NAND Gate To Tetris 103
Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming? 246
Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code? 186
Flip This App: Secondary Mobile App Market Quietly Taking Off 39
Ask Slashdot: Best Approach To Reenergize an Old Programmer? 360
Stress-Testing Software For Deep Space 87
Apple, Microsoft, Google, Others Join Hands To Form WebPlatform.org 138
Learning HTML Through a Board Game 34
The Case For the Blue Collar Coder 233
Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? 632
They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? 285
The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users 113
Open Source Raspberry Pi WebIDE Alpha Released 26
Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? 418
Oracle's Sparc T5 Chip Evidently Pushed Back to 2013 98
Google Glass, Augmented Reality Spells Data Headaches 44
Mind Maps: the Poor Man's Design Tool 97
Nokia Bets Big On Mapping 104
TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript 488
RightScale, Scalr, EnStratus: Comparing the APIs 13
Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion 49
How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million 236
WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual 299
Python 3.3.0 Released 131
Malicious PhpMyAdmin Served From SourceForge Mirror 86
Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? 383
New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE 121
Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? 288
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
Torque3D Engine Goes Open-Source 68
How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 187
Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us 170
Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code 421
Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase? 151
Salesforce CEO Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook 156
Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS 484
Google Spanner: First Globally Scalable Database With External Consistency 49
The Perils of Developers Hooking Up 278
Can Anyone Become a Programmer? 767
How Indie Devs Made an 1,800-Player Action Game Mod In Their Spare Time 87
Ask Slashdot: How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? 397
Mesa Finally An OpenGL Implementation (On Intel Hardware) 80
University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster 147
Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake 290
Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? 630
Converting RSS Feeds To a Dynamic 3D Scene In 120 Lines of Code 73
Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? 460
Intel Encodes Data In Flickering LEDs (and Shows Off Other Bright Ideas) 65
Torque 3D To Be Released On Github Under the MIT License 54
PostgreSQL 9.2 Out with Greatly Improved Scalability 146
4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API 166
The Struggles of Developing StarCraft 135
Rhombus Tech A10 EOMA-68 CPU Card Schematics Completed 155
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? 1154
Windows Phone 8 SDK — By Appointment Only 153
Comments On Code Comments? 472
Recent Apple Java Update Doesn't Fix Critical Java Flaw Claims Researcher 102
Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? 202
Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case 97
Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 307
Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs 282
Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API 168
Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV 365
Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad? 463
The True Challenges of Desktop Linux 505
Java Exploit Patched? Not So Fast 87
Book Review: Think Like a Programmer 98
The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers 487
Oracle Patches Java 7 Vulnerability 58
Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day 367
The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah? 318
Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day 154
What Developers Can Learn From Anonymous 120
Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry 65
Facebook's Project Prism, Corona Could Ease Data Crunch 19
Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? 550
Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? 468
Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? 336
Google, Oracle Deny Direct Payments To Media 41
Twitter Restricts Client Developers 96
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services, For Programmers 64
Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi 75
GCC Switches From C to C++ 406
Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum 146
Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day 306
How Big Data Became So Big 105
Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? 1127
Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU 304
Microsoft Picks Another Web Standards Fight 211
Former Goldman Sachs Programmer Arrested and Charged Again For Code Theft 176
Software Engineering Has Its Own Political Axis From Conservative To Liberal 283
Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software 267
Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects 136
Custom Android ROM Developers Get OTA Update Capabilities Like Carriers 50
In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future 85
TextMate 2 Released As Open Source 193
Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? 1086
Will Online Learning Disrupt Programming Language Adoption? 193
Bad Software Runs the World 349
Paid Media Must Be Disclosed In Oracle v. Google 165
The World's Greatest Competitive Programmer 202
How Haiku Is Building a Better BeOS 137
Microsoft Releases Attack Surface Analyzer Tool 40
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming? 247
How To Deal With 200k Lines of Spaghetti Code 236
SAP Agrees To Pay Oracle $306 Million In Corporate Theft Case 29
Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million 377
Judge Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software To Itanium 109
Google Clamps Down On Spam, Intrusive Ads In Apps 122
Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? 345
How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code 304
Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over? 181
US Census Bureau Offers Public API For Data Apps 47
John Romero's Doomy View On Android and Ouya 375
6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense 113
GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss 535
Apple In Trouble With Developers 343
KWin Adds Support for QML Decorations 30
CowboyNeal Reviews Oracle Linux 170
HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack 30
Ex-Sun Employees Are Taking Java To iOS 115
App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy 596
San Francisco Poaching Tech Talent From Silicon Valley 282
Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? 342
Microsoft Lays Out Money-Making Options For Windows Store Developers 85
The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced 23
HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards 395
Great Open Source Map Tools For Web Developers 34
ESA Summer of Code In Space 2012 21
Google Releases Android 4.1 SDK 58
Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel 897
JavaScript For the Rest of Us 285
Microsoft Introduces 'Napa' Toolset For Cloud App Model 33
NSA Mimics Google, Angers Senate 193
Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 3 For Developers 145
Torvalds Bemoans Size of RC7 For Linux Kernel 3.5 158
SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? 306
New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs 491
jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 250
Varnish Author Suggests SPDY Should Be Viewed As a Prototype 136
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? 221
Firefox 15 Coming With Souped-Up, Faster Debugger 125
Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One 594
Ask Slashdot: Documenting a Tangle of Network Devices? 165
IT Salaries and Hiring Are Up — But Just To 2008 Levels 198
School's In For Summer At Udacity 105
After Android Trial, Google Demands $4M From Oracle 119
Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client 378
Is Python a Legitimate Data Analysis Tool? 67
Dreaming of Digital Glory At Hacker Hostels 71
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? 234
Another Death in the Cloud As Apple Kills Off iWork 134
Liberated Pixel Cup: Art Entries Closed; Code Competition Begins 34
Used Software Can Be Sold, Says EU Court of Justice 385
Facebook Testing the Want Button 147
What's To Love About C? 793
GLIBC 2.16 Brings X32 Support, ISO C11 Compliance, Better Performance 95

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