Developers Stories for 2015

Open Source Roles: Starters vs. Maintainers 77
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus 202
Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs 215
Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 72
US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class 242
Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? 225
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
Core Bitcoin Devs Leave Project, Create New Currency Called Decred 122
Perl 6 Released 145
Ruby 2.3.0 Released 45
Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? 100
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science 69
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% 349
HIV Dating Company Accuses Researchers of Hacking Database 71
Oracle Settles FTC Charges Regarding Deceptive Java Security Updates 33
Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub 49
Facebook, Google Top Year-End App List 30
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception 402
Unity Benchmarks Browser WebGL Performance 38
Over 650 TB of Data Up For Grabs From Publicly Exposed MongoDB Database 96
Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School 117
Philips Won't Block Third-Party Bulbs After All 110
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' 133
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace 124
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net 216
HHVM Beats Stable Version of PHP 7.0 In Recent Benchmark 39
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video #2) 14
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development 181
Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids 105
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video) 27
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong 166
Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC 255
Facebook Shuts Down Creative Labs 62
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? 279
Google Santa Tracker Is Back 68
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? 397
Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping 50
The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs 241
Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Should Focus On Android Apps Not Universal Apps 121
Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB 244
Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project 195
PHP 7 Ready For Release 159
Software Engineer Liz Bennett Talks About Being a Woman in a Nearly All Male Workplace (Video) 370
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance 160
Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs 143
HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' 200
Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions 78
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS 134
How Computer Scientists Cracked a 50-Year-Old Math Problem 96
High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware 94
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
Stack Overflow and the Zeitgeist of Computer Programming 171
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement 130
And the Pulitzer Prize For SQL Reporting Goes To... 27
Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? 192
Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops 93
Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth 242
Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation 106
Interviews: Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Your Questions 42
Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code 160
Python Is On the Rise, While PHP Falls 232
Microsoft's Plan To Port Android Apps To Windows Proves Too Complex 131
Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? 168
Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? 371
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? 464
Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? 156
Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech 196
PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query 83
Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes 267
Interviews: Ask Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood a Question 129
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System 284
Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox 65
Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? 304
Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications 115
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
Ransomware Found Targeting Linux Servers, MySQL, Git, Other Development Files 93
How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine 69
The 'Trick' To Algorithmic Coding Interview Questions 208
Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? 568
The $6,000 Computer Desk That Lets You Lie Down While You Work 116
Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It 153
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
FireEye: Many Companies Still Running XcodeGhost-Infected Apple Apps 23
Reverse-Engineering GTA V 37
How Apple Is Preventing the Apple TV From Becoming a Console Rival 129
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? 47
Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics 576
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
Busybox Deletes Systemd Support 572
Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements 103
Bug Bounties Are Bonanza, For a Few Persistent Hackers 27
IMDb Hits 25 59
Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security 320
Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories 182
Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? 270
MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks 55
Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go 185
Oracle Bakes Security Into New Chips 99
MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine 33
Open Source Code Isn't a Warranty 214
ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? 102
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
Despite $30M Tech Push, Half of US States Had Fewer Than 300 AP CS Test Takers 152
Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? 132
Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity 246
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
Microsoft To Pay Up To $15K For Bugs In Two Visual Studio Tools 43
Oracle Fixes Java Vulnerability Used By Russian Cyberspies 126
Facebook Launches Initiative To Attract More Minorities and Women To Coding 281
Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love 497
The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents 492
Fullstack Launches Coding School For Women 373
More Tech, STEM Workers Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs 167
New iOS 9 Features Mean System-Wide Tor Is In the Works For the First Time 34
Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon 83
Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns 136
Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? 437
Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate 44
Why Developers Are Important To the Drone Industry 122
"Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design 153
Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise 161
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 187
DevOps: Threat or Menace? (Video) 65
3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development 75
Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? 241
Why Many CSS Colors Have Goofy Names 77
Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team 325
Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base 220
Chicago Mayor Calls For National Computer Coding Requirement In Schools 217
Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support 152
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach 103
Europe Code Week 2015: Cocktails At Microsoft, 'Ode To Code' Robot Dancing 15
Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source 696
Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 163
Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel 688
Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps 281
CodeWeavers To Release CrossOver For Android To Run Windows Programs 66
Twitter Shuts Down JSON API and Names New CEO 104
Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers 91
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial 49
Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Logistics Imply Sizable Conspiracy 153
American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination 350
GitHub's Next Move: Turn Everybody Into a Programmer 145
Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" 174
Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations 578
(Over-)Measuring the Working Man 165
Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? 131
Ask Slashdot: Building a Software QA Framework? 58
LibreOffice Turns Five 147
Romance and Rebellion In Software Versioning 86
Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated 300
Reports: Volkswagen Was Warned of Emissions Cheating Years Ago 161
Meet the Michael Jordan of Sport Coding 103
The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders 299
How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? 618
Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines 262
Security is an Important Coding Consideration Even When You Use Containers (Video) 57
Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster 341
Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web 215
Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs 449
'Rose' Wins 2015 Loebner Contest, But Big Prize Remains Unclaimed 58
Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack 246
Microsoft Spending $75M To Boost K-12 CS Education, Put TEALS In 4,000 Schools 48
JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes 51
Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient 146
NYC Counting On Donations To Fund Required K-12 Computer Science Programs 21
APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code 255
It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? 241
Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time 100
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 1) 30
Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers 371
Do Tech Firms Really Want Liberal Arts Majors? 266
Node.js v4.0.0 Released 128
Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding 102
The Free Software Foundation: 30 Years In 135
Get Big Fast: "500 Club" Delivers Teachers For Code.org 28
PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM 158
JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model 141
An Algorithm To Randomly Generate Game Dungeons 77
Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education 112
An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution 289
Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming 280
You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code 616
Netflix Open Sources Sleepy Puppy XSS Hunter 12
LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations 84
LILO Bootloader Development To End 135
The Most Important Obscure Languages? 429
Book Review: Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways To Write Better Python 71
Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going 130
NSF Makes It Rain: $722K Award To Evaluate Microsoft-Backed TEALS 64
"Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs 211
GNOME To Start Using Codenames 46
Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm 174
Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS 74
Ask Slashdot: Advice On Enterprise Architect Position 198
Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries 182
Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available 59
In Praise of the Solo Programmer 114
Deep Learning Pioneer On the Next Generation of Hardware For Neural Networks 45
Why Modular Smartphones Are Such a Nightmare To Develop 111
Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? 87
Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 152
How Poly Bridge's GIF Generator Turned an Indie Game Into a Reddit Sensation 40
Who Makes the Decision To Go Cloud and Who Should? 154
The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time 132
Standardized Tests Blamed, Asian Students Ignored In Google-Gallup K-12 CS Study 184
Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions 192
COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015 86
Amazon Work-Life Balance Defender: Prior Employer Nearly Killed Me and My Team 211
UK Government Signs New Deal With Oracle 54
Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? 242
Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers 417
Google Releases Version 1.5 of Its Go Programming Language, Finally Ditches C 221
Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK 108
The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player 220
Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Is Trying To Save a Huge Storage Room of Manuals 48
DirectX 12 Performance Tested In Ashes of the Singularity 96
"Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation 157
Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow 92
Rupert Murdoch Won't Be Teaching Your Children To Code After All 57
How 'Rock Star' Became a Business Buzzword 80
The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun 52
Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? 61
One Petabyte of Data Exposed Via Insecure Big Data Systems 50
Federal Judge Calls BS On Homeland Security's 2008 STEM 'Emergency' 142
UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' 207
Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java 457
Facebook Awards Researchers $100k For Detecting Emerging Class of C++ Bugs 73
GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps 167
Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports 229
Buzz: a Novel Programming Language For Heterogeneous Robot Swarms 30
How To Make Money As an Independent Developer 56
LibreSSL 2.2.2 Released 33

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