Developers Stories for 2013

PHP 5.5.0 Released 219
Foxconn Betting Big On Firefox OS 94
Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle 115
Are You Sure This Is the Source Code? 311
Fixing Over a Decade of Missing Computer Programming Education In the UK 117
Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison 319
Millions At Risk From Critical Vulnerabilities From WordPress Plugins 145
Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? 378
PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years 336
Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source 153
Revisiting Amdahl's Law 54
MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL 243
Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code? 254
NY and SF Mayors Announce Joint Tech Summits 27
Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) 297
Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles 814
POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits 67
Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosting Git Repositories? 165
A Database of Brains 25
Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB 203
Learn About the FRDCSA 'Weak AI' Project (Video) 52
The $200,000 Software Developer 473
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? 299
Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates For Java 7 61
The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) 162
Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC 607
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? 480
MIT President Tells Grads To 'Hack the World' 86
Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates 405
BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? 487
Why Your Users Hate Agile 597
Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 39
How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast 115
Ask Slashdot: How To Start and Manage a University LUG? 66
GitHub Back Online After Service Outage 55
Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs 187
Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? 376
Funding Open Source By Donations: Lighting the Path 56
The Case For a Government Bug Bounty Program 53
When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code 195
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? 656
How Did You Learn How To Program? 623
$30,000 For a Developer Referral? 189
Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime 404
A Commencement Speech For 2013 CS Majors 144
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Work On Projects While Traveling? 273
PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug 318
Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days 266
Six Months Developing Software For Wearable Computing 28
World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure 349
Google Unable To Keep Paying App Developers In Argentina 169
Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? 397
Red Hat's Diane Mueller Talks About OpenShift (Video) 21
Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting 185
MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison 112
Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Hackathon? 79
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? 524
Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is 312
Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? 524
Immigration Reform May Spur Software Robotics 146
Open Source Projects For Beginners 212
IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update 256
Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year 237
Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom 126
How European Startups Are Battling Labor Laws For Developers and Programmers 293
How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase? 127
Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science 122
To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme 183
Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws 102
Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me 339
Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace 53
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? 509
17-Year-Old Girl Wins Boston TV API Programming Contest 117
Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind 347
ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken 196
Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40? 314
Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl 69
Btcd - a Bitcoind Alternative Written In Go! 150
The New AI: Where Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Meet 209
CSS Zen Garden Turns 10 37
Are Contests the Best Way To Find Programmers? 260
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
Facebook's Hackathons Get a Rethink 49
There Is No Reason At All To Use MySQL: MariaDB, MySQL Founder Michael Widenius 241
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? 202
Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work? 332
CSS Selectors as Superpowers 190
An Exploration of BlackBerry 10's Programming API 100
Windows Store In-App Ad Revenue Plummets 196
Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? 365
Hillsborough County (FL) Hackathon is a Sign of Increasing Tech Awareness (Video 30
Ask Slashdot: Best OSS Embedded Development Platform 128
KDevelop 4.5 Released 97
MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL 215
Stop Standardizing HTML 302
Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates 297
Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners 400
Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 133
Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style 135
In Development: An Open Source Language For Cell Programming 31
Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting? 75
LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete 291
Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids? 185
Red Hat 'Fedora-izes' JBoss With New WildFly Java Application Server 40
Java 8 Delayed To Fix Security 135
Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities In Java 211
Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed 630
Google Forbids Advertising On Glass 274
U.S. Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks Centralized Database For H-1B Jobs 251
Google's BigQuery Vs. Hadoop: a Matchup 37
Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming 254
Hacker Modifies Facebook Home To Work On All Android Devices 124
Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users? 274
LyX Joins the Google Summer of Code 2013 70
Top Coders Tell Agents, "Show Me the Money!" 288
Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies 484
'CodeSpells' Video Game Teaches Children Java Programming 245
Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2% 419
Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag 138
No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? 631
Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse' 315
Qt 5.1 Adds Android and iOS Support 81
Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down 299
Apache Terminates Struts 1 61
Python Family Gets a Triplet Of Updates 196
Mozilla Introduces Experimental Open Payment System For Firefox OS 68
H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad 512
WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code 92
R 3.0.0 Released 75
Rare Docs Show How Apple Created Apple II DOS 130
Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL 105
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborating to Bring New Browser Engine to Android 111
Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? 240
The Underhanded C Contest Is Back 88
Erlang Getting Too-Big-To-Fail Process Flag 35
Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights 207
Microsoft Makes Millions Renting Campus Space to Vendors 95
ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released 99
Security Fix Leads To PostgreSQL Lock Down 100
Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124
The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals 58
MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB 208
Everything About Java 8 233
Oracle Releases SPARC T5 Servers; Too Late? 175
Fantastic js1k Submissions 70
Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS 291
SpaceX: Lessons Learned Developing Software For Space Vehicles 160
Longest Running Linux Distribution Slackware Adopts MariaDB 109
2012 Free Software Award Winners Announced 43
Meet the Gamers Keeping Retro Consoles Alive 79
Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? 759
Video Editor OpenShot Wants To Kickstart Windows, OS X Versions 55
GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration 269
DARPA Tackles Machine Learning 95
CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook 96
Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? 687
Code.org Documentary Serving Multiple Agendas? 226
Schneier: Security Awareness Training 'a Waste of Time' 284
Ask Slashdot: How To (or How NOT To) Train Your Job Replacement? 292
How a Programmer Gets By On $16K/Yr: He Moves to Malaysia 523
Apple Nabs Java Exploit That Bypassed Disabled Plugin 97
Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost 333
Google BigQuery Is Now Even Bigger 38
Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime 409
Minecraft 1.5 "Redstone" Released 95
Adobe Shuts Down Browser Testing Service BrowserLab 40
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? 635
Drupal's Creator Aims For World Domination 192
Ask Slashdot: Where to Host Many Small, Related Projects? 69
Embedded Linux Conference 2013 Videos Available Online 6
Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Talks About Managing Remote Workers (Video) 100
Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Java, Win 8 All Hacked At Pwn2Own 183
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: "Programming Will Make You a Better Doctor" 79
Facebook Details the Software Engineering Behind Graph Search 41
KDE Releases Plasmate 1.0, A Plasma Workspaces SDK 16
Open Source Software Seeping Into the .NET Developer World 146
Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow 418
0install Reaches 2.0 61
Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update To Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities 165
$100 Million Student Database Worries Parents 250
Can Valve's 'Bossless' Company Model Work Elsewhere? 522
Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers 312
New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild 193
Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? 384
A New Approach To Database-Aided Data Processing 45
How Paid Apps On Firefox OS Will Work 74
Xiph Episode 2: Digital Show & Tell 50
Ubuntu Developer Summits Shifting Online, Increasing Frequency 49
Intel Launches Its Own Apache Hadoop Distribution 18
Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code 265
Ruby 2.0.0 Released 121
Ubuntu Touch Port-a-Thon 48
A Tale of Two Databases, Revisited: DynamoDB and MongoDB 73
Carmack On VR Latency 94
Microsoft, BSA and Others Push For Appeal On Oracle v. Google Ruling 191
Why My Team Went With DynamoDB Over MongoDB 106
Two Years of GNU Guile Scheme 2.0 107
Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? 261
Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code Released 37
Apple Hit By Hackers Who Targeted Facebook 148
Duke Nukem 3D Code Review 128
Facebook Hacks Points To Much Bigger Threat For Mobile Developers 59
Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? 320
Layoffs Hit Washington Post Mobile Team 108
Ask Slashdot: I Just Need... Marketing? 212
Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 252
WebKit As Broken As Older IE Versions? 213
Python Trademark At Risk In Europe 122
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? 375
Game Closure "DevKit" For Mobile HTML5 Games Is Open Source 37
Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers 269
Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? 332
For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 176
Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? 115
Oracle Open Sourcing JavaFX, Including iOS and Android Ports 105
COBOL Will Outlive Us All 318
Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? 736
Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? 257
Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform? 231
GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support 274
Russian Univ. Launches Course Based On ReactOS Led By Alex Bragin 90
Crowdsourced Coders Take On Immunology Big Data 31
Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? 330
Summer Programming Courses Before Heading Off To College? 183
Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA 180
Ask Slashdot: Programming / IT Jobs For Older, Retrained Workers? 215
MySQL 5.6 Reaches General Availability 47
The History of Visual Development Environments 181
Gnome Goes JavaScript 387
Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 451
Can Proprietary Language Teams Succeed By Going Open Source? 136
Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update 270
Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? 432
Microsoft Wants Computer Science Taught In UK Primary Schools 168
Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API 158
Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default 181
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Remote Application Access? 113
Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere 379
What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? 704
Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers? 339
Clay Shirky On Hackers and Depression: Where's the Love? 319
Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development 214
The Mobile App Design Tail Wags the Desktop Software Design Dog 183
Tech Firms Keep Piles of 'Foreign Cash' In US 427
Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? 366
You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows 492
Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB 116
JavaScript Comes To Minecraft 149
Corporate Hackathons: the Fine Line Between Engaging and Exploiting 64
Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found 223

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