Programming Stories for 2011

Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo 38
Open Source IDE GAMBAS Reaches 3.0 137
Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update 156
Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? 848
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? 237
Ask Slashdot: Geek-Centric Magazines Still Published On Paper? 125
Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? 783
What If Babbage Had Succeeded? 212
East Coast vs. West Coast In the Quest For Young Programming Talent 235
ISO Updates C Standard 378
Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? 268
October, November the Worst Months For Writing Buggy Code 136
MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data 29
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast 808
Qt 4.8.0 Released 90
NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler 89
Facebook Releases JIT PHP Compiler 244
Silverlight 5 Released 107
Why We Need More Programming Languages 421
Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least 435
IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools 50
The Rise of Developeronomics 253
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? 424
Does Outsourcing Programming Really Save Money? 653
Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? 287
Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? 848
Ruby Clouds: Engine Yard Vs. Heroku 41
Why Was Hypercard Killed? 392
Reading, Writing, Ruby? 292
How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired? 523
QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi 80
Stanford's Free Computer Science Courses 161
OpenPGP Implemented In JavaScript 167
JavaScript JVM Runs Java 234
The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics 203
Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? 378
Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community 158
The IOCCC Competition Is Back 201
Will Adobe's HTML5 Strategy Help Developers? 129
Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing 132
Programming Cells, With CellOS 58
IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru 112
How Do I Get Back a Passion For Programming? 516
Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings 185
Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness 189
Eclipse Launches New Programming Language 238
Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development? 330
Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard 260
Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates 743
Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than 487
Ask Slashdot: Learning Dart Development? 107
Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? 165
Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer 422
Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software 15
Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? 538
Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life 289
John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away 354
Analysis of Google Dart 171
Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System 76
Web Apps Language Opa Gets a Web-Based IDE 83
Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? 315
Microsoft Roslyn: Reinventing the Compiler As We Know It 195
Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders 177
Coding Games In 48 Hours 99
Mojolicious 2.0: Modern Perl For the Web 132
Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments? 362
Google Starts to Detail Dart 219
.NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro 319
The Games Programmers Play 163
Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing 180
Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control 33
R7RS Scheme Progress Report 47
OCaml For the Masses 338
How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way 354
Book Review: Scalability Rules 54
Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? 314
The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It 482
Client-side Web REPL For 15+ Languages 38
Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle 495
River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript 134
British Schoolkids To Be Taught Computer Coding 247
Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software 171
Book Review: Metasploit The Penetration Tester's Guide 24
Neal Gafter On Java Under Oracle 130
More Info On Google's Alternative To JavaScript 247
Skein Hash... In Bash 90
Happy Programmer Day! 97
Type Safety Coming To DB Queries 128
Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? 427
Code Hero: Play and Learn 101
Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart 250
Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From? 329
Interview With the Creator of Ruby 89
What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? 624
Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard 362
JavaScript Toolkit V1.1.0 Released 65
Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language 425
Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On Its New Python IDE 303
Like a Redstone Cowboy 166
Python Fiddle, an IDE That Runs In Your Browser 113
Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent 253
GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack 166
Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7 165
Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces 128
Book Review: The Python Standard Library By Example 33
C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code 616
Virtual Lab Rat Saves Human Lives 69
App Inventor Continues Life at MIT 23
C++0x Finally Becomes a Standard 398
Hard Truths About HTML5 265
See the PyPy JIT In Action 109
Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client 209
Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? 772
Six Python Web Frameworks Compared 111
Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses 236
Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.2 Specification 98
KDE Frameworks 5.0 In Development 227
DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects 44
Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility 117
What Today's Coders Don't Know and Why It Matters 368
Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online 148
Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community 314
Was .NET All a Mistake? 688
The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake 594
Escaping Infinite Loops 204
Ask Slashdot: Using Code With an Expired Patent? 139
How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries 791
Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 295
Girls Go Geek Again 378
Oracle Announces Java SE 7 204
The Rise of Git 442
'The Code Has Already Been Written' 253
FDA To Scrutinize Mobile Medical Apps 142
World's Largest Visualization Analytics Display 24
Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas 250
Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age 352
Visual Hash Turns Text Or Data Into Abstract Art 86
Apple Spin-Off Hosts Enterprise App Stores 64
Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript 255
Are You Too Good For Code Reviews? 495
The Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes 213
ESA Opens To Open Source Code Development 18
2nd Edition of Learn Python the Hard Way Released 167
Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps 168
Announcing Ozma: Extending Scala With Oz Concurrency 38
Ask Slashdot: Stepping Sideways Into Programming? 152
Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World 510
The Longhorn Dream Reborn 254
Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change 527
Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) 385
Life As a Bug Hunter 68
The 8-Bit Computer That's Been Built By Hand 161
Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK For Windows 137
Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit 187
C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests 670
Programming Is Heading Back To School 169
Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? 545
Ubiquitous Computing Gadget To Teach Coding 107
Coder Preps 3DS Browser Homebrew Game Library 30
Java SE 7 Finally Approved By JCP, 13 To 1 101
Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology 158
Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition 109
Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior 68
Taking a Look At High-End Programmer Salaries 133
Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? 364
What Makes Parallel Programming Difficult? 196
Experts Say Gestural Interfaces Are a Step Backwards In Usability 254
JavaScript Servers Compared 132
Book Review: Camel In Action 55
The Architecture of Open Source Applications 85
Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses 606
ARM-Based Arduino Competitor At SparkFun 106
TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, the Next Round 301
Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 205
Designing a Programming Language For Embeddability 52
Debriefing After Warsaw's First Startup Weekend 21
10,000 Commits To an Open-source Project 101
Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin 286
Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? 1002
Perl 5.14 Released 187
Is Process Killing the Software Industry? 460
Why the New Guy Can't Code 948
JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future 305
Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? 427
JavaScript Gets Visual With Waterbear 220
Inside Mozilla's New JavaScript JIT Compiler 97
Developing Android Apps Visually, In 3 parts 78
Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool 191
The Importance of Lunch 475
Punish Bad Users With Drupal Misery 418
Amazon Automatic Pricing Lists Book At $23M 147
NetBeans 7.0 Is Now Available 137
Open Source Programming Tools On the Rise 113
What Monty Python Teaches Us About Computing 102
Maqetta: Open Source HTML5 Editor From IBM 121
Tcl Announces NaTcl: Native Client Tcl 124
Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project 623
Microsoft TouchStudio Uses Phone To Program Phone 162
Sorting Algorithms As Dances 68
Kyoto Prize Laureate Unsnarls Electronic Networks 36
SQL and NoSQL are Two Sides of the Same Coin 259
NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? 305
Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development 831
Book Review: Test-Driven JavaScript Development 55
Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers' 758
ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft 375
CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman 755
Google Names Winners For Summer of Code 2011 84
Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax 444
Drizzle Hits General Availability 146
CS Profs Debate Role of Math In CS Education 583
Drupal 8 Development Begins — 15 Bugs At a Time 88
Flash-to-HTML5 Translator: Smart But Not Pretty 77
SourceForge Open-Sources Their Platform Software 58
In-Depth Look At HTML5 150
Adobe Releases Flash To HTML 5 Converter 168
One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life 98
RIM Does Not Want PlayBook Devs, Complains One Potential Developer 165
Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially 178
Google x86 Native Browser Client Maybe Not So Crazy After All 332
Final Android 3.0 SDK Released 31
Comment Profanity by Language 263
Python 3.2 Released 164
HP Donates To WebOS's Major Hombrewing Group 77
Nokia Gives Some Hints On the Future of Qt 329
Google Brings Design-By-Contract To Java 134
Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies' 113
Chromeless Supplants Mozilla's Prism Project 111
Julia Meets HTML5 129
Naming Bi-Directional Streams In an API? 61
EFL 1.0 Is Finally Released 115
Ruby Dropped In Netbeans 7 140
Android 3.0 Platform Preview and SDK Is Here 129
Volume 4A of Knuth's TAOCP Finally In Print 173
No More Version Numbers For HTML 336
Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP 700
Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs 481
Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? 785
How Facebook Ships Code 314
Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? 997
An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup 509
Microsoft Research Takes On Go 175