Programming Stories for 2010

Why Teach Programming With BASIC? 709
Hello, Android Third Edition 74
Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? 545
A Real World HTML 5 Benchmark 163
Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law 166
10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier 246
Do High Schools Know What 'Computer Science' Is? 564
RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's 206
Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL 178
TIME Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of Year 317
Scientists Create Programmable Bacteria 117
Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants 106
Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy 142
Programming Mistakes To Avoid 394
'I Just Need a Programmer' 735
Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel 191
Linus On Branching Practices 90
What Software Specification Tools Do You Use? 200
60 Years of Hamming Codes 66
Sony Adopts Objective-C and GNUstep Frameworks 345
An Illustrated Version Control Timeline 244
Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 84
Which Language To Learn? 897
Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick 88
The Coming War Over the Future of Java 583
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
Gosu Programming Language Released To Public 330
The Linux Programming Interface 73
A JavaScript Gameboy Emulator, Detailed In 8 Parts 62
Microsoft Open Sources F# 212
A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? 395
Developing StarCraft 2 Build Orders With Genetic Algorithms 200
Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! 728
IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations 470
New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code 216
Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem 394
Taco Bell Programming 394
Beware the Garden of Steven 580
Where Are the Original PC Programmers Now? 124
Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems 157
StarCraft AI Competition Results 113
Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ 553
Casio Unveils New Color Screen Graphing Calculator 313
Grad Student Looking To Contribute To Open Source 283
NSF Wants To Know How Much Software Really Costs 181
Simple Virus For Teaching? 366
Linux Kernel Development 3rd Ed 53
Code Repository Atlassian Buys Competitor BitBucket 150
Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads 337
Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU 151
1K JavaScript Madness 131
Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices? 403
HTML5: Up and Running 31
Security Lessons Learned From the Diaspora Launch 338
Elo Chess Rating System Topped By Proposed Replacements 102
Learning By Playing 49
Teaching Game Development To Fine Arts Students? 172
Haystack and the Myth of the Boy Wizard 127
Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed 306
Copying Trumps Creating For FarmVille Creator Zynga 319
Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier 590
Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age 602
Rails 3.0 Released 110
Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs 187
What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? 462
Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License 164
Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source 207
Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists 282
'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines 426
Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change 179
Throwing Out Software That Works 622
Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound 118
Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 379
How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? 396
Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI 64
The Risks of Entering Programming Contests 154
Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages 443
How Death Rally Got Ported 89
NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project 218
How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? 565
TI Calculator DRM Defeated 234
How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? 346
High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay 1018
Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star 220
Java IO Faster Than NIO 270
Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ 878
How To Use HTML5 Today 155
Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options 202
Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers 612
Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI 109
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
Security For Open Source Web Projects? 105
Skype Releases Open SDK 108
Blender 2.49 Scripting 51
Better Development Through Competition? 251
Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? 347
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names 773
First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life 241
Parallel Programming For the Arduino 140
Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? 327
Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm 364
Kaminsky Offers Injection Antidote 244
Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers 195
New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB 174
Gov't App Contests Are Cool, But Are They Useful? 41
'Month of PHP Security' Finds 60 Bugs 120
12th Internet Problem Solving Contest, This Sunday 52
Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity 351
HTML5 vs. Flash — the Case For Flash 510
Program Adds Some Swing To Any Song 1
GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C 546
How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? 704
CERT Releases Basic Fuzzing Framework 51
Will Steve Ballmer Speak At WWDC Keynote? 280
For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? 426
When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense 289
Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good? 307
Programming Clojure 109
HTML Web App Development Still Has a Ways To Go 279
Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels 663
Choice of Programming Language Doesn't Matter For Security 192
Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? 468
CMS Made Simple 1.6 46
Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source" 246
Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition 342
Apple May Face Antitrust Inquiry 457
Zen Coding 175
What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic 359
1st International Longest Tweet Results 44
Nokia Releases Qt SDK For Mobile Development 76
jQuery Cookbook 85
IEEE Introduces Mario Level-Generation Competition 114
Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript 148
Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? 520
How I Saved the Gaming Industry 252
Adobe Stops Development For iPhone 497
Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia 36
25th Anniversary of Hackers 149
Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts 411
SEC Proposes Wall Street Transparency Via Python 278
Why Computer Science Students Cheat 694
Cross With the Platform 307
Thoughts On the State of Web Development 253
Sid Meier and the 48-Hour Game 58
How Many Hours a Week Can You Program? 547
Something For (Almost) Every Developer 263
How To Exploit NULL Pointers 139
Steve Jobs Weighs In On iPhone Programming Language Mandate 711
How To Find Bad Programmers 359
Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment 293
iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps 983
C Programming Language Back At Number 1 535
Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20% 252
Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base 296
New AI Challenge Is All About Wanton Destruction 45
The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant 667
Flash Builder 4 — Defective By Design? 66
Microsoft Fuzzing Botnet Finds 1,800 Office Bugs 111
Graph-View of Collaborative Development At GitHub 14
Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? 441
The Economics of Perfect Software 201
Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die 444
NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System 306
Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? 609
Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? 117
Metaprogramming Ruby 84
Madoff's Programmers Indicted 147
Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582
Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? 407
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? 344
Google Makes Apps Script Available To All 61
Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide 245
Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs 499
SolarPHP 1.0 Released 125
"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup 231
Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface 198
The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language 548
Whatever Happened To Programming? 623
Why Paying For Code Doesn't Mean You Own It 447
Where Android Beats the iPhone 365
Google Go Capturing Developer Interest 434
Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection 436
TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88
Recommendation Algorithm Wants To Show You Something New 90
Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario 552
PayPal To Open App Store For Developers 63
Learning Python, 4th Edition 163
After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293
Google Phasing Out Gears For HTML5 35
What Knowledge Gaps Do Self-Taught Programmers Generally Have? 396
The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors 534
"Logan's Run" Syndrome In Programming 599
Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? 532
How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? 483
Call For Scientific Research Code To Be Released 505
Game Development In a Post-Agile World 149
Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta 197
An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme 267
Code Review of Doom For the iPhone 161
Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More 82
Eight PHP IDEs Compared 206
Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver 304
Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed 295
Unofficial Qt Environment (and Sudoku) For the Kindle 36
Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad 315
x86 Assembler JWASM Hits Stable Release 209
Can Curiosity Be Programmed? 269
Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? 844
Mozilla Tries New "Lorentz" Dev Model 126
Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390
MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli 154
What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? 310
Programming With Proportional Fonts? 394
Learning JQuery 1.3 153
Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics 572
2010 Bug Plagues Germany 233
Myths About Code Comments 580