Programming Stories for 2014

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
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
Programming On a Piano Keyboard 57
Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE 132
Perl Is Undead 283
Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? 155
Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? 254
Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code 199
Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative 548
Intel Adds SIMD Vectorization to JavaScript 1
Adobe To Let Third Party Devs Incorporate Photoshop Features 39
Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data 387
Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator 167
Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? 466
Netflix Shutters Its Public API 59
545-Person Programming War Declares a Winner 57
The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test 136
Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages 309
Turing Test Passed 432
Intel Confronts a Big Mobile Challenge: Native Compatibility 230
Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? 310
Machine Learning Used For JavaScript Code De-obfuscation 31
Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift 636
A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" 255
Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? 153
Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework 126
OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers 132
No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code 142
PHP Next Generation 213
Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work 422
Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module 143
Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg 255
R Throwdown Challenge 185
First Browser-Based Quantum Computer Simulator Released 61
Mozilla Launches Student Coding Program "Winter of Security" 40
Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language 137
Fixing the Pain of Programming 294
Programmers: It's OK To Grow Up 232
Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple 116
New PostgreSQL Guns For NoSQL Market 162
US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science 306
Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? 352
WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer 170
Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? 466
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding 125
Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 634
Programming Language Diversity On the Rise 177
Crytek Open-Sources Their 'Renderdoc' 3D Debugger 20
GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium 121
Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? 800
Ask Slashdot: Beginner To Intermediate Programming Projects? 172
Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? 274
Kids To Get the Best CS Teachers $15/Hr Can Buy 157
ESA Taking Applications for Summer of Code in Space 21
Coding Bootcamps Already 1/8th the Size of CS Undergraduates 92
One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 230
C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? 435
The Ways Programming Is Hard 278
50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal 224
Programming Education Making A Comeback In Primary Schools 138
Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle 237
Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student? 247
The Ethical Dilemmas Today's Programmers Face 183
Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary 139
How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer 226
The Security of Popular Programming Languages 189
Akamai Reissues All SSL Certificates After Admitting Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty 56
Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code 581
Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake 447
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers 90
Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party 146
Raspberry Pi Compute Module Release 51
Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? 226
Ask Slashdot: the State of Open CS, IT, and DBA Courseware in 2014? 84
Microsoft To Allow Code Contributions To F# 100
Hackathon Gold: How To Win a Job Offer In a Coding Competition 25
.NET Native Compilation Preview Released 217
Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? 119
Subversion Project Migrates To Git 162
State Colleges May Offer Best ROI On Comp Sci Degrees 127
Toward Better Programming 391
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? 373
KDE and Canonical Developers Disagree Over Display Server 202
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? 133

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