Programming Stories for 2012

Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM 68
Microsoft Kills Expression Suite — And Makes It Free, For Now 89
Ada 2012 Language Approved As Standard By ISO 165
Real World Code Sucks 292
Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? 430
How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code 238
Whose Bug Is This Anyway? 241
Ask Slashdot: How Does an IT Generalist Get Back Into Programming? 224
Perl Turns 25 263
W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 113
New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework 13
Qt Developer Days 2012 Videos Released 9
Happy Birthday To Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer 60
The Scourge of Error Handling 536
Coderdojo Inspires Coding In Kids As Young As Seven 40
Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains 404
How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? 438
Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK 80
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers 338
Rise of the Online Code Schools 98
Another Player In the World of Free, Open Online CS Courseware 64
Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction 233
It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director 441
Computer Science vs. Software Engineering 322
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK 154
Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? 284
Emscripten Compiler Gets Optimizations, Now Self-Hosting 60
Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work? 333
Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? 878
What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? 388
Why Coding At Fifty May Be Nifty 317
The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler 586
Does Coding Style Matter? 479
Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? 309
Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working With Awful Legacy Code? 360
System Admins Should Know How To Code 298
Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking 115
21st IOCCC Source Code Released 24
From a NAND Gate To Tetris 103
Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming? 246
Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code? 186
Flip This App: Secondary Mobile App Market Quietly Taking Off 39
Ask Slashdot: Best Approach To Reenergize an Old Programmer? 360
Learning HTML Through a Board Game 34
The Case For the Blue Collar Coder 233
Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? 632
They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? 285
Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? 418
Mind Maps: the Poor Man's Design Tool 97
TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript 488
WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual 299
Python 3.3.0 Released 131
Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? 383
Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves? 288
Torque3D Engine Goes Open-Source 68
How Microsoft Is Wooing College Kids To Write Apps For Windows 8 187
Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us 170
Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code 421
Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase? 151
Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS 484
The Perils of Developers Hooking Up 278
Can Anyone Become a Programmer? 767
Mesa Finally An OpenGL Implementation (On Intel Hardware) 80
Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? 630
Converting RSS Feeds To a Dynamic 3D Scene In 120 Lines of Code 73
The Struggles of Developing StarCraft 135
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? 1154
Windows Phone 8 SDK — By Appointment Only 153
Comments On Code Comments? 472
Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? 202
Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 307
Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API 168
Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad? 463
Book Review: Think Like a Programmer 98
The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers 487
The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah? 318
What Developers Can Learn From Anonymous 120
Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry 65
Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? 550
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services, For Programmers 64
GCC Switches From C to C++ 406
Khan Academy Launches Computer Science Curriculum 146
Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day 306
How Big Data Became So Big 105
Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU 304
Microsoft Picks Another Web Standards Fight 211
Former Goldman Sachs Programmer Arrested and Charged Again For Code Theft 176
Software Engineering Has Its Own Political Axis From Conservative To Liberal 283
Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software 267
Scrum/Agile Now Used To Manage Non-Tech Projects 136
In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future 85
Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? 1086
Will Online Learning Disrupt Programming Language Adoption? 193
Bad Software Runs the World 349
The World's Greatest Competitive Programmer 202
Microsoft Releases Attack Surface Analyzer Tool 40
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming? 247
How To Deal With 200k Lines of Spaghetti Code 236
How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code 304
Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over? 181
San Francisco Poaching Tech Talent From Silicon Valley 282
Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? 342
Microsoft Lays Out Money-Making Options For Windows Store Developers 85
The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced 23
HTML5 Splits Into Two Standards 395
Great Open Source Map Tools For Web Developers 34
ESA Summer of Code In Space 2012 21
Google Releases Android 4.1 SDK 58
Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel 897
JavaScript For the Rest of Us 285
SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? 306
New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs 491
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? 221
Firefox 15 Coming With Souped-Up, Faster Debugger 125
Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One 594
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? 234
What's To Love About C? 793
GLIBC 2.16 Brings X32 Support, ISO C11 Compliance, Better Performance 95
When Your e-Books Read You 105
Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture? 239
The PHP Singularity 622
The Long Death of Fat Clients 277
Allen Institute Data Enables Hackathon For the Human Brain 37
A New C Standard Is On the Way 305
Ask Slashdot: Jobs For Geeks In the Business/Financial World? 181
Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? 386
Intel Releases Ivy Bridge Programming Docs Under CC License 113
Ask Slashdot: What To Do Before College? 335
Opa 1.0 Released 79
Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access 314
A Turing Machine Built With Lego, And a Place To Put It 74
A Faster Jigsaw Solving Algorithm 104
Unity 4 Adds Linux Support 150
Erlang and OpenFlow Together At Last 93
Ruby, Clojure, Ceylon: Same Goal, Different Results 138
Windows 8: .NET Versus HTML5 Metro App Development 179
The History of the CompSci Degree 126
HSA Foundation Formed By AMD, ARM, Ti, Imagination, and MediaTek 51
Google Blockly — a Language With a Difference 141
Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam 159
Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? 559
Ask Slashdot: Best Training To Rekindle a Long Tech Career? 162
Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives 406
Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only Visual Studio Express 228
Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? 211
Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio 415
Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? 201
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? 204
Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? 409
Light Table IDE Finds Funding Success 94
Liberated Pixel Cup Art Contest Launches 63
Can Machine Learning Replace Focus Groups? 93
US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable 265
Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 462
Comparing R, Octave, and Python for Data Analysis 61
Perl 5.16.0 Released 192
Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School 162
With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall 376
Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea? 403
Interview With Ward Cunningham 31
Moving From CouchDB To MySQL 283
Ask Slashdot: Best Degree For a Late Career Boost? 234
Objective-C Comes of Age 437
US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming 105
SciRuby: Science and Matrix Libraries For Ruby 138
Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? 530
Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective 240
JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi 147
EU Court Rules APIs, Programming Languages Not Copyrightable 215
Open Research Computation Closes Before Opening 22
Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It 577
Ask Slashdot: Sources For Firmware and Hardware Books? 88
C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? 611
Startup Claims C-code To SoC In 8-16 Weeks 205
Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg 738
20th IOCCC Source Code Released 46
Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free 369
Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing 204
Will Write Code, Won't Sign NDA 438
Light Table: A New Spin on the IDE 137
Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool 188
The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture 715
Raspberry Pi Arrives, With a School Debut In Leeds 148
Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted 316
Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? 525
Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers 211
Artificial Neural Networks Demonstrate the Evolution of Human Intelligence 107
US CompSci Enrollment Up For 4th Year Running 101
How To Share a Cake Over the Internet 123
Qt 5 Alpha Released 117
Guile Scheme Emacs-Lisp Compatibility Matures 46
A 'Radical Manifesto' For Computer Teaching In English Schools 108
Needed: A LAMP Stack For Robotics 65
Go Version 1 Released 186
Parlez-vous Python? 164
Microsoft Releases ASP.NET MVC Under the Apache License 177
Javascript Game of Tron In 226 Bytes 115
Animating From Markup Code To Rendered Result 72
GCC Turns 25 192
Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved 97
Ask Slashdot: Getting Feedback On Programming? 196
Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong 180
Van Rossum: Python Not Too Slow 510
Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail 274
Gamestar Mechanic Teaches Kids to Write Their Own Computer Games (Video) 55
Google Introduces Programming Challenge In Advance Of GoogleIO 114
Study Confirms the Government Produces the Buggiest Software 135
How To Contribute To Open Source Without Being a Programming Rock Star 120
A Better Way To Program 467
Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development? 188
Try Your Programming Skills In Space: DARPA Satellite Programming Challenge 54
New Programming Languages Come From Designers 435
Ask Slashdot: Do Kids Still Take Interest In Programming For Its Own Sake? 276
MIT App Inventor Back Online 55
$10,000 Prize For Connecting Businesses With Government Data 45
Computer Programmers Only the 5th Most Sleep Deprived Profession 204
Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language 355
Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 305
Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? 164
How Mailinator Compresses Its Email Stream By 90% 75
New Opa S4 Release Puts Forward New 'ORM' For MongoDB 29
Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? 278
Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? 290
Tetris In 140 Bytes 215
Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran 244
Former Goldman Programmer's Conviction Overturned 182
GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? 647
Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide 262
Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too 84
Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? 506
IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits 182
Ask Slashdot: Making JavaScript Tolerable For a Dyed-in-the-Wool C/C++/Java Guy? 575
The 20th IOCCC Winners Announced 34
Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe 276
Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support 109
KDE Publishes a Book For Beginner Developers 32
Hacking the NES With Lisp 80
Perl Data Language 2.4.10 released 94
Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? 445
Firefox's Web Push Notification System Announced 132
Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language 145
Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? 446
Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing 120
Firefox Javascript Engine Becomes Single Threaded 346
Mozilla Releases Rust 0.1 232
Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code 427
Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code 334
Book Review: OpenCL Programming Guide 40
Faster-Than-Fast Fourier Transform 271

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