Developers Stories for 2012

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
HP Asks Judge To Enforce Itanium Contract Vs. Oracle 124
Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? 663
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
MemSQL Makers Say They've Created the Fastest Database On the Planet 377
Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support 581
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
Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island 398
Google To Pay $0 To Oracle In Copyright Case 250
NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds 497
Is Oracle Really Offering 100+ Cloud Applications? 33
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
SourceForge Allura Submitted To the Apache Software Foundation Incubator 30
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 $100 Masters Degree From Udacity 191
Researcher's Wikipedia Big Data Project Shows Globalization Rate 16
Canonical Announces Ubuntu App Showdown 56
ESA Announces the Summer of Code In Space 2012 23
OpenSUSE Team Reworking Dev Model, Delays 12.2 Release 38
The History of the CompSci Degree 126
HSA Foundation Formed By AMD, ARM, Ti, Imagination, and MediaTek 51
iOS Tops Android For Number of New App Projects From Developers 122
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
Oracle's Ellison Vows "Most Comprehensive Cloud On Earth" 78
Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? 384
More Court Trouble For Oracle: Now HP Is Suing Them 116
Samba 4 Enters Beta 170
A 'Small Claims Court' For the Internet 116
Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? 357
Oracle Sues Lodsys For Patent Trolling 119
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? 204
Why the GPL Licensing Cops Are the Good Guys 233
Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? 409
Light Table IDE Finds Funding Success 94
Speech Recognition Using the Raspberry Pi 74
Basque Country Gov't Decrees State-Produced Software Should Be Open Sourced 38
Liberated Pixel Cup Art Contest Launches 63
The Cost of Crappy Security In Software Infrastructure 156
Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted 365
Can Machine Learning Replace Focus Groups? 93
Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings 273
US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable 265
Google Now Searches JavaScript 114
Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 462
Comparing R, Octave, and Python for Data Analysis 61
No Patent Infringement Found In Oracle vs. Google 234
The Future of Browser Choice 188
Microsoft Research Introduces Record-Beating MinuteSort Tech 118
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
EA To Provide Free Distribution To Kickstarter Games 120
Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea? 403
Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck 478
Interview With Ward Cunningham 31
Moving From CouchDB To MySQL 283
FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC 711
Ask Slashdot: Best Degree For a Late Career Boost? 234
Oracle Not Satisfied With Potential $150,000; Goes Against Judge's Warning 234
Objective-C Comes of Age 437
US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming 105
Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop 399
SciRuby: Science and Matrix Libraries For Ruby 138
Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) 402
The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up 205
Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial 475
Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? 530
Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective 240
Jury May Be Deadlocked In Oracle-Google Trial 110
Oracle Vs. Google and the Right To Use APIs 155
JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi 147
EU Court Rules APIs, Programming Languages Not Copyrightable 215
GNU Media Goblin 0.3.0 Released 43
Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK 356
Open Research Computation Closes Before Opening 22
Android Ported To C# 351
Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It 577
RIM's Future Hangs On Developer Support For 'New BlackBerry' 148
Ask Slashdot: Sources For Firmware and Hardware Books? 88
Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department 112
Bug Bounty Hunters Weigh In On Google's Vulnerability Reporting Program 24
Video: Paul "Froggy" Schneider's Hard-Won Wisdom For Conference Organizers 35
Inside the PlayStation Suite SDK 87
Schmidt Testifies Android Did Not Use Sun's IP 239
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
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department 628
Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free 369
The Physical Travelling Salesman Challenge 59
Google Developer Testifies That Java Memo Was Misinterpreted 201
Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee 285
Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing 204
Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free 393
Will Write Code, Won't Sign NDA 438
Light Table: A New Spin on the IDE 137
Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom 175
Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool 188
The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture 715
Software Engineers Remain Top US Job 140
Raspberry Pi Arrives, With a School Debut In Leeds 148
Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted 316
Apple Updates Java To Include Flashback Removal 121
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
Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty 207
Will Kickstarter Launch a Gaming Renaissance? 170
How To Share a Cake Over the Internet 123
Qt 5 Alpha Released 117
Mozilla Blocks Vulnerable Java Versions In Firefox 205
Blue Gecko is an 11 Year Old Remote Database Administration Startup (Video) 63
Oracle and Google Settlement Talks Falter; Trial Set for April 16 118
Guile Scheme Emacs-Lisp Compatibility Matures 46
GreenSQL is a Database Security Solution, says CTO David Maman (Video) 108
A 'Radical Manifesto' For Computer Teaching In English Schools 108
Glibc Steering Committee Dissolves; Switches To Co-Operative Development Model 102
Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good' 195
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
Judge Orders Oracle and Google To Talk, Again 89
Javascript Game of Tron In 226 Bytes 115
Animating From Markup Code To Rendered Result 72
Open Source Payday 129
US Congress Probes iOS App Developers On Privacy 52
Can Translucency Save Privacy In the Cloud? 86
GCC Turns 25 192
Java Web Attack Installs Malware In RAM 98
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
New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals 260
Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week 969
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
Beta Version of AIDE Enables Application Building On Android 48
Interplay Ex-CEO Brian Fargo Kickstarts Wasteland II 122
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
Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android 113
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
PHP 5.4 Released 209
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
Developer's View: Real Life Inspirations Or Abstract Ideas? 144
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
Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million 84
Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? 635
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
Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? 416
Former Goldman Programmer's Conviction Overturned 182
Oracle Claims Dramatic MySQL Performance Improvements 168
Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 256
Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution 214
GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? 647
Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide 262
Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too 84
What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? 228
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
LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust 180
Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? 445
Firefox's Web Push Notification System Announced 132
Google Starts Scanning Android Apps 172
Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation 99
New BBC Sports Website Makes Heavy Use of RDF 89
Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language 145
Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? 446
Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware 179
America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware 630
Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing 120
OzLog: Unlimited Private Data Retention For Australia? 54
Firefox Javascript Engine Becomes Single Threaded 346
Mozilla Releases Rust 0.1 232
Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code 427
Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran 368
Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code 334
Book Review: OpenCL Programming Guide 40
Faster-Than-Fast Fourier Transform 271
The Headaches of Cross-Platform Mobile Development 197
Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank 199
Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards 353
NYC To Open 1st High School Dedicated To Software 188
Serious Oracle Flaw Revealed; Patch Coming 100
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? 300
Notes On Reducing Firefox's Memory Consumption 297
Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart 194
Ask Slashdot: Open Source vs Proprietary GIS Solution? 316
Oracle and the Java Ecosystem 157
Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 536
Ask Slashdot: Changing Career From OLTP To OLAP Dev 129
Code Cleanup Culls LibreOffice Cruft 317
2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C 356
Oracle v. Google Trial On Indefinite Hold 66
Ask Slashdot: Advancing a Programming Career? 165
How To Get Developers To Document Code 545
"Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN 688
Google Launches Style Guide For Android Developers 128
Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again 52
The Bosses Do Everything Better (or So They Think) 469
Kinect For Windows Releasing On February 1 155
Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire 372
Oracle, Cloudera Team Up On Hadoop Appliance 44
FBI's Troubled Sentinel Project Delayed Again 96

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