Developers Stories for 2014

Will Google's Dart Language Replace Javascript? (Video) 180
Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software 608
US Tech Firms Recruiting High Schoolers (And Younger) 253
Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language 415
Indie Game Developers Talk About Why They Struck Out On Their Own 49
The World's Best Living Programmers 285
KDE Releases Frameworks 5 87
Oculus Suspends Oculus Rift Dev Kit Sales In China 131
IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages 197
Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs? 282
Famo.us: Do We Really Need Another JavaScript Framework? 104
Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming 132
Ask Slashdot: Switching From SAS To Python Or R For Data Analysis and Modeling? 143
ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Developers 69
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? 536
Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better 121
Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? 113
Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities 376
Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? 359
An Army Medal For Coding In Perl 192
Visualizing Algorithms 50
Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky 100
Why Software Builds Fail 279
Google I/O 2014 Begins [updated] 49
Nest Announces New Smart Home API 38
Programming On a Piano Keyboard 57
Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE 132
Perl Is Undead 283
Oracle Buying Micros Systems For $5.3 Billion 71
Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? 155
Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry 370
Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? 254
Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code 199
Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative 548
After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication 105
Intel Adds SIMD Vectorization to JavaScript 1
Adobe To Let Third Party Devs Incorporate Photoshop Features 39
Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data 387
Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator 167
Microsoft Releases Early IE12 Preview As Part of Its New Developer Channel 105
Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success 293
Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? 466
Netflix Shutters Its Public API 59
545-Person Programming War Declares a Winner 57
The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test 136
Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages 309
Docker 1.0 Released 88
Turing Test Passed 432
Parents Mobilize Against States' Student Data Mining 139
Intel Confronts a Big Mobile Challenge: Native Compatibility 230
Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower 174
Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? 310
AMD, NVIDIA, and Developers Weigh In On GameWorks Controversy 80
Machine Learning Used For JavaScript Code De-obfuscation 31
Matthew Miller Named New Fedora Linux Project Leader 24
Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift 636
A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" 255
Grace Hopper Documentary Edges on Successful Crowdfunding 65
Oregon vs. Oracle: the Battle of Blame Heats Up 83
Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? 153
Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework 126
OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers 132
Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 173
No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code 142
PHP Next Generation 213
Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work 422
Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module 143
Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg 255
Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties 155
R Throwdown Challenge 185
Microsoft Office Mix: No-Teacher-Left-Behind Course Authoring 27
First Browser-Based Quantum Computer Simulator Released 61
LegoTechno -- Making Music With Lego Bricks, Python, OpenCV and a Groovebox 5
Mozilla Launches Student Coding Program "Winter of Security" 40
Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language 137
Fixing the Pain of Programming 294
The Technical Difficulty In Porting a PS3 Game To the PS4 152
Programmers: It's OK To Grow Up 232
Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple 116
New PostgreSQL Guns For NoSQL Market 162
You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene 315
Could High Bay-Area Prices Make Sacramento the Next Big Startup Hub? 190
Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? 281
US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science 306
Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? 352
WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer 170
Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? 466
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding 125
Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 634
A 32-bit Development System For $2 138
Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java 303
Programming Language Diversity On the Rise 177
Crytek Open-Sources Their 'Renderdoc' 3D Debugger 20
GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium 121
Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? 800
Job Postings For Python, NoSQL, Apache Hadoop Way Up This Year 52
Ask Slashdot: Beginner To Intermediate Programming Projects? 172
Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions 394
Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? 274
Kids To Get the Best CS Teachers $15/Hr Can Buy 157
ESA Taking Applications for Summer of Code in Space 21
Coding Bootcamps Already 1/8th the Size of CS Undergraduates 92
One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 230
C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? 435
The Ways Programming Is Hard 278
50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal 224
Programming Education Making A Comeback In Primary Schools 138
Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle 237
Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student? 247
Microsoft, Google, Others Join To Fund Open Source Infrastructure Upgrades 101
Groove Basin: Quest For the Ultimate Music Player 87
Tech People Making $100k a Year On the Rise, Again 193
David Auerbach Explains the Inside Baseball of MSN Messenger vs. AIM 86
Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced 360
The Ethical Dilemmas Today's Programmers Face 183
OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week 379
Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment 93
Oracle Deflects Blame For Troubled Oregon Health Care Site 163
Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary 139
Survey: 56 Percent of US Developers Expect To Become Millionaires 467
How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer 226
The Security of Popular Programming Languages 189
OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL 304
Akamai Reissues All SSL Certificates After Admitting Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty 56
Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code 581
Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake 447
MA Gov. Wants To Ban Non-Competes; Will It Matter? 97
Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 673
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers 90
Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party 146
Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? 272
Raspberry Pi Compute Module Release 51
Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? 226
Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics 175
Ask Slashdot: the State of Open CS, IT, and DBA Courseware in 2014? 84
Microsoft To Allow Code Contributions To F# 100
Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer 641
NASA To Catalog and Release Source Code For Over 1,000 Projects 46
Hackathon Gold: How To Win a Job Offer In a Coding Competition 25
Start-Up Founders On Dealing With Depression 257
.NET Native Compilation Preview Released 217
Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? 88
App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check 161
Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? 119
Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" 465
Subversion Project Migrates To Git 162
State Colleges May Offer Best ROI On Comp Sci Degrees 127
MariaDB 10 Released, Now With NoSQL Support 103
OpenSUSE To Offer Rolling Release KDE Experience 51
Toward Better Programming 391
MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass 70
Latest Humble Bundle Supports Open Source GameDev Tools 29
TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database 275
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? 373
KDE and Canonical Developers Disagree Over Display Server 202
AWS Urges Devs To Scrub Secret Keys From GitHub 109
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? 133
Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots 195
AMD Develops New Linux Open-Source Driver Model 142
Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? 218
Startup Employees As an Organized Labor Group 107
Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP 230
Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? 379
Google Android Studio Vs. Eclipse: Which Fits Your Needs? 140
Unreal Engine 4 Launching With Full Source Code 149
Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' 162
Python 3.4 Released 196
Code Combat: Free, Open Source, Multiplayer Programming Lessons 30
Java 8 Officially Released 302
Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! 166
Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? 306
Shuttleworth Wants To Get Rid of Proprietary Firmware 147
Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment 710
Lies Programmers Tell Themselves 452
Study: Happiness Improves Developers' Problem Solving Skills 91
Movie and TV GUIs: Cracking the Code 74
How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers 147
Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome 240
Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, Up 22% 137
Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers 479
$2,400 'Introduction To Linux' Course Will Be Free and Online This Summer 84
Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? 247
Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living 285
Portal 2 Incompatible With SELinux 212
Fedora To Have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" For Contributors 212
Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? 88
Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes 132
Canonical Ports Chromium To The Mir Display Server 63
Game Tech: How BioShock Infinite's Lighting Works 55
The New PHP 254
All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech 427
Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? 246
Wolfram Language Demo Impresses 216
Github Rolls Out New Text Editor Atom 82
Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School 124
Code.org Resurrects 'Flappy Bird' As Programming Lesson 72
Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter? 333
Ask Slashdot: When Is a Better Career Opportunity Worth a Pay Cut? 263
Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? 627
Book Review: Sudo Mastery: User Access Control For Real People 83
Indian Hustle: How Fraudsters Prey On Would-be US Tech Workers 124
The Neuroscience of Computer Programming 161
Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page 125
Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration 664
Jim Weirich, Creator of Rake, Has Passed Away 109
Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? 149
Google's Definition of 'Open' 168
Ask Slashdot: Best Options For Ongoing Education? 149
Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" 312
Background Javascript Compilation Boosts Chrome Performance 136
'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty 251
Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services 163
The First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web Is Available 53
Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? 716
A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands 96
Red Hat Hires CentOS Developers 91
Surrogate Database Key, Not Bitcoin Protocol Flaw, To Blame For Mt Gox Problems 81
Godot Game Engine Released Under MIT License 73
Boom Or Bust: The Lowdown On Code Academies 130
GNU Hurd Gets Improvements: User-Space Driver Support and More 163
Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements 158
LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating 279
Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? 876
Amazon's Double-Helix Acquisition Hints At Gaming Console 116
HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" 573
Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source 545
Who's Writing Linux These Days? 63
Eclipse Foundation Celebrates 10 Years 155
Chromecast Now Open To Developers With the Google Cast SDK 104
Should Everybody Learn To Code? 387
The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On 505
The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer 533
California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps 374
GitHub Launches Bug Bounty Program, Offers Between $100 and $5,000 14
Would Linus Torvalds Please Collect His Bitcoin Tips? 231
Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers 142
Blizzard Releases In-House Design Tools To Starcraft Modders 96
Microsoft Relaxing Xbox One Kinect Requirements, Giving GPU Power a Boost? 220
Decision, EA: Judge Reverses Multimillion Dollar Award To Madden Dev 125
Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language 426
K-12 CS Education Funding: Taxes, H-1B Fees, Donations? 165
Collaboration and Rivalry In WebKit 44
Office Space: TV Documentary Looks At the Dreadful Open Office 314
Python Scripting and Analyzing Your Way To Love 188
Code Is Not Literature 240
FreeBSD 10.0 Released 136
Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 148
Blowing Up a Pointless Job Interview 692
Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? 158
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? 533

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