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Programming Stories

Invented-Here Syndrome 150
The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates 341
The Believers: Behind the Rise of Neural Nets 45
Interviews: Ask Senior Director Matt Keller About the Global Learning XPRIZE 28
H-1B Visas Proving Lucrative For Engineers, Dev Leads 176
Attention, Rockstar Developers: Get a Talent Agent 145
How One Developer Got the Internet To Watch People Code 65
Will Every Xbox Be a Dev Kit? 69
Java Vs. Node.js: Epic Battle For Dev Mindshare 318
Building a Procedural Dungeon Generator In C# 83
Torvalds: "People Who Start Writing Kernel Code Get Hired Really Quickly" 130
Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US 165
Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? 323
Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System 754
Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction 520
Should We Really Try To Teach Everyone To Code? 291
Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? 809
LinkedIn Restricts API Usage 69
Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" 677
WA Pushes Back On Microsoft and Code.org's Call For Girls-First CS Education 288
Elementary OS: Why We Make You Type "$0" 208
Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds 411
Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard 146
Which Freelance Developer Sites Are Worth Your Time? 55
Arkansas Declares a High School CS Education State of Emergency 120
RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el 551
AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness 252
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? 136
Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool 254
Facebook Brings React Native To Native Mobile Development 78
Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? 233
Washington May Count CS As Foreign Language For College Admission 259
You Can Now Clone Samsung's Gear VR and Test Your Virtual Reality Apps 32
JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast 192
Book Review: Core HTML5 2D Game Programming 50
Building a Good Engineering Team In a Competitive Market 101
WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes 779
MIT Randomizes Tasks To Speed Massive Multicore Processors 63
Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? 192
How Blind Programmers Write Code 79
One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects 252
Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away 220
The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" 135
Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record 204
Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? 214
Why Coding Is Not the New Literacy 212
Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated? 492
Brought To You By the Letter R: Microsoft Acquiring Revolution Analytics 105
Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize 200
By the Numbers: The Highest-Paying States For Tech Professionals 136
Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? 302
Gender and Tenure Diversity In GitHub Teams Relate To Higher Productivity 106
SOTU: Community Colleges, Employers To Train Workers For High-Paying Coding Jobs 200
Is D an Underrated Programming Language? 386
Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming 648
Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials 75
Interviews: Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose Answer Your Questions 42
Linus On Diversity and Niceness In Open Source 361
The Legacy of CPU Features Since 1980s 180
Exploring Some Lesser-Known Scripting Languages 60
Ask Slashdot: Linux Database GUI Application Development? 264
Meet Flink, the Apache Software Foundation's Newest Top-Level Project 34
PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share 245
AI Experts Sign Open Letter Pledging To Protect Mankind From Machines 258
KDE Frameworks 5.3 and Plasma 2.1 – First Impressions 84
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases Second Issue CC-BY-SA 19
Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha 161
Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? 189
EFF: Apple's Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App For iOS 220
Learn Gate-Array Programming In Python and Software-Defined Radio 51
Little-Known Programming Languages That Actually Pay 242
Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question 80
Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive 598
Better Learning Through Expensive Software? One Principal Thinks Not 169
Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming 303
If the Programmer Won't Go To Silicon Valley, Should SV Go To the Programmer? 294
Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc 226
Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? 464
2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are 255
How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again 449
Ringing In 2015 With 40 Linux-Friendly Hacker SBCs 81
India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory 78
Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure 112
School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees 355
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 552
Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History 149
MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language 194
North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force 166
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower 221
Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress 31
New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible 208
Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End 156
Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release 54
Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices 307
Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS 62
FreeNAS 9.3 Released 115
Apple, IBM Partnership Yields First Results: 10 Mobile Apps 53
Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools 105
How Relevant is C in 2014? 641
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages 161
Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? 584
Samsung's Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers 51
Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python 277
Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile 130
Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights 333
In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games 312
Ask Slashdot: Objective C Vs. Swift For a New iOS Developer? 211
Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? 291
Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages 127
2014 Hour of Code: Do Ends Justify Disney Product Placement Means? 125
Upgrading the Turing Test: Lovelace 2.0 68
Startup Assembly Banks On Paid, Open-Source Style Development 33
It's Not Developers Slowing Things Down, It's the Process 186
"Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon 561
Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) 163
Ask Slashdot: Professionally Packaged Tools For Teaching Kids To Program? 107
Do Good Programmers Need Agents? 215
Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) 192
Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? 223
Five Years of the Go Programming Language 82
Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform 525
Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday 320
New Book Argues Automation Is Making Software Developers Less Capable 212
Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign 107
Mozilla Launches Browser Built For Developers 74
Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted 260
Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months 173
The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality 217
Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs 132
The 7th Underhanded C Contest Is Online 41
It's Time To Revive Hypercard 299
Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations 158
Mark Zuckerberg And John Doerr Donate $1M To Expand The Hour Of Code Campaign 24
Google Announces Project Ara Developer Conference, Shows Off First Prototype 66
It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard 125
Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App 145
Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment 608
OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed 24
Tetris Is Hard To Test 169
New Microsoft Garage Site Invites Public To Test a Wide Range of App Ideas 72
NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders 786
Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit? 104
Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code 164
Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime 245
Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries 198
Be True To Your CS School: LinkedIn Ranks US Schools For Job-Seeking Programmers 130
JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface 195
The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google 205
Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality 133
For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love 164
Microsoft, Facebook Declare European Kids Clueless About Coding, Too 213
Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' 240
Despite Push From Tech Giants, AP CS Exam Counts Don't Budge Much In Most States 144
How Poor Punctuation Can Break Windows 94
Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source) 57
Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World 547
Google Code-In 2014 and Google Summer of Code 2015 Announced 15
Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline 342
Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination 227
Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support 365
Building Apps In Swift With Storyboards 69
How To Find the Right Open Source Project To Get Involved With 57
Ask Slashdot: Software Issue Tracking Transparency - Good Or Bad? 159
Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America 96
Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? 316
Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate 165
Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? 479
The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job 131
'Reactive' Development Turns 2.0 101
Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Becoming a Complacent Software Developer? 275
A Beginner's Guide To Programming With Swift 72
IOCCC 2014 Now In Progress 14
Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? 232
College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class 270
Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't 183
KDevelop 4.7.0 Released 48
Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment 144
Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative 387
Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? 282
Scala Designer Martin Odersky On Next Steps 94
IT Job Hiring Slumps 250
LLVM 3.5 Brings C++1y Improvements, Unified 64-bit ARM Backend 99
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? 729
Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? 546
Can ISO 29119 Software Testing "Standard" Really Be a Standard? 152
Yahoo Stops New Development On YUI 79
Google Introduces HTML 5.1 Tag To Chrome 94
State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers 34
PHP 5.6.0 Released 118
The Grumpy Programmer has Advice for Young Computer Workers (Video) 120
If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? 511
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? 548
Interviews: Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Your Questions 102
C++14 Is Set In Stone 193
Software Combines Thousands of Online Images Into One That Represents Them All 66
Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, and Blockly 18
Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development 127
Ask Slashdot: What Recliner For a Software Developer? 154
Interviews: Ask Bjarne Stroustrup About Programming and C++ 427
Ask Slashdot: Corporate Open Source Policy? 57
New Watson-Style AI Called Viv Seeks To Be the First 'Global Brain' 161
The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer 294
New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One 306
Wiring Programmers To Prevent Buggy Code 116
Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time 371
Google Fit Preview SDK Arrives For Android Developers 13
Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? 637
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? 430
How Many Members of Congress Does It Take To Pass a $400MM CS Bill? 180
Comparison: Linux Text Editors 402
Getting Back To Coding 240
Peter Hoddie Talks About His Internet of Things Construction Kit (Video) 53
PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification 180
Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM 213
seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source 82
Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond) 315
Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Resources On Programming For Palm OS 5? 170
A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World 133
'Just Let Me Code!' 372
Researchers Test Developer Biometrics To Predict Buggy Code 89
US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers 529
Math, Programming, and Language Learning 241
Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 161
ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source 158
SRI/Cambridge Opens CHERI Secure Processor Design 59
Is the Software Renaissance Ending? 171
Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? 509
Ask Slashdot: Best Dedicated Low Power Embedded Dev System Choice? 183
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
The World's Best Living Programmers 285
KDE Releases Frameworks 5 87
IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages 197
Does Google Have Too Much Influence Over K-12 CS Education? 66
Famo.us: Do We Really Need Another JavaScript Framework? 104
Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming 132
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

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