Programming Stories for 2008

Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge 80
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive 465
Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet 65
Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista 258
Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users 178
If Programming Languages Were Religions 844
64-Bit Java For Linux 387
Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company? 223
Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Now Final 57
Oracle Adds Data-integrity Code To Linux Kernel 53
Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? 592
Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download 68
Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers 538
Comparison of Nine Ruby Implementations 75
Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming 326
Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant 155
Free Resources for Windows Perl Development 117
What Programming Language For Linux Development? 997
What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? 225
Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? 620
Sun Releases JavaFX 185
Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent 208
Python 3.0 Released 357
A Look At Modern Game AI 87
Model-View-Controller — Misunderstood and Misused 221
Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake 268
MySQL in a Nutshell 86
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par 175
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311
Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? 747
Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC 303
jQuery in Action 154
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns 199
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours 166
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Setting Up a Home Dev/Testing Environment? 136
When Agile Projects Go Bad 139
Distributed Compilation, a Programmer's Delight 60
O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates 44
Java Trial Support Coming In Linux Standard Base 126
(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? 516
Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby 255
How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? 230
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? 175
How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me? 285
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? 412
Microsoft's Internal Advice About Patents 100
Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? 429
Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux 213
Programming .NET 3.5 224
Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code 101
HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers 32
Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC 54
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87
Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? 680
PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist 523
Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative 164
Which Phone To Develop For? 344
A Look At Successful Game Mods 287
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library 85
Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? 667
Google Opens Up Android Codebase 204
eBay Makes Huge Gains In Parallel Efficiency 47
Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding 139
Publishing a Commercial iPhone Game, Start To Finish 38
6 Languages You Wish the Boss Let You Use 264
Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? 540
10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting 190
Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight 300
Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" 334
Loebner Talks AI 107
How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course? 452
Computer-Aided Lego Art Project 112
David Axmark Resigns From Sun 229
New Contestants On the Turing Test 630
Good Books On Programming With Threads? 176
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced 151
OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide 48
Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches? 272
Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? 654
6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night 67
Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month 184
C# In-Depth 499
Working Effectively with Legacy Code 208
Becoming a Famous Programmer 347
Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework 126
What To Do Right As a New Programmer? 662
Oracle To Sell Database Hardware 93
Clean Code 214
Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app 464
Analyzing Your GMail History 29
Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed 270
Don't Count Cobol Out 274
Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule 439
Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? 538
Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site 187
Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? 144
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development 39
In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads 397
MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) 148
Objective-J and Cappuccino Released 56
The Electronic Bastille 267
Django 1.0 Released 104
Top Technologies of Next-Gen Gaming 77
AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting 63
Local Web Server For Web Development? 82
Java, Where To Start? 558
Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? 836
ESPN and TopCoder Run College Football Algorithm Challenge 22
The State of Scripting Languages 415
Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug 234
Cell Phones For Easy App Development? 97
Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008 109
MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL 99
Terror Watchlist "Crippled By Technical Flaws" 324
The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling 217
Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost 462
UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year 163
Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x 589
Was Standardizing On JavaScript a Mistake? 525
My Job Went To India 396
Why Corporates Hate Perl 963
OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO 61
Boost 1.36 Released 166
Sun Open-Sources Java UI Toolkit 59
Easy Encryption In Java and Python With Keyczar 19
Software Logging Schemes? 225
ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead 168
Linux Foundation Paving Way for New Kernel Developers 46
OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious 643
Official Support For PHP 4 Ends 245
Open Source Helps New IT Grads Get Foot in the Door 128
Tracking Near-Earth Meteors With a 1.1 Petabyte Database 72
Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress 496
Why COBOL Could Come Back 405
California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL 1139
Emergency Workaround For Oracle 0-Day 152
Final Days For Hackontest Selection of Projects 7
Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion? 99
Ivy League Computer Science Curricula Exposed 312
VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux 131
JavaScript: The Good Parts 162
Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? 286
EC2 Vs. App Engine Vs. GoGrid Vs. AppNexus 109
Practical Django Projects 151
Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web 370
Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone 305
How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? 1095
Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce 68
Web 2.0 Lessons For Corporate Dev Teams 142
Guide For Small Team Programming? 220
Best and Worst Coding Standards? 956
The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop 90
Reusing and Recycling Code 114
MySQL Readies Release Candidate For 5.1 168
How To Show Code Samples? 485
The Web Development Skills Crisis 471
11th Annual ICFP Contest Begins 22
The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander 152
33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD 162
Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? 1021
The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? 375
Head First C# 243
German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records 122
Scaling Large Projects With Erlang 200
Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language 102
Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? 763
Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design 173
Non-Programming Jobs For a Computer Science Major? 936
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows 229
Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced 188
Does an Open Java Really Matter? 766
Software Diagramming In Embedded Systems? 52
Bjarne Stroustrup Reveals All On C++ 371
Brendan Eich Discusses the Future of JavaScript 164
What Does It Mean To Be an Open Source Author? 89
The Principles of Project Management 125
Sun's Java Will Be Free This Year 274
UK Games Industry Over the Hill? 314
Subversion 1.5.0 Released 104
IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit 271
Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing 98
Visualizing Open Source Contributions 80
Do Women Write Better Code? 847
Undocumented Open Source Code On the Rise 94
How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together 155
2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open 160
Best Chair For Desktop Coding? 742
New Method for Rendering Particles Outlined 17
Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools 742
Last "Hackers On Planet Earth" Conference In July 102
iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games 260
HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web 117
'Extreme Programming' Controls Phoenix Mars Lander 119
Drive-By Contributors to the Linux Kernel 61
FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion 120
Brian Aker On the Future of Databases 175
Rails 2.1 Is Now Available 71
MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf 132
Havok Releases Free Version For PC Developers 86
Is UML Really Dead, Or Only Cataleptic? 156
Programming As a Part of a Science Education? 508
What Makes a Programming Language Successful? 1119
Google To Host Ajax Libraries 285
Six Degrees of Wikipedia 296
Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures 216
A Bare-Bones Linux+Mono+GUI Distro? 158
Picking the Right Eclipse Distribution 78
Cisco To Open-Source New Messaging Protocol 118
Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors 277
F/OSS Flat-File Database? 702
Getting Credit for Programming Accomplishments? 148
Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? 345
Dragon vs. Hydra - Competing Development Styles 90
Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? 567
Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels 252
QGtkStyle Offers Native Gtk Look For Qt Programs 64
Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada 168
Targeting PocketPCs With Mono? 90
Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project? 210
Changes In Store For PHP V6 368
What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? 903
Data Mining In Law Enforcement 148
In-Depth With Qt 4.4 253
MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source 157
Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester 72
Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References 182
How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers 814
Java SE 6 For Mac OS X 132
MiniOn ARM Microcontroller Programming System 75
Ajax Performance Analysis 36
NVIDIA Shaking Up the Parallel Programming World 154
Interview With Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz 75
Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails 423
Threads Considered Harmful 266
On This Date in 1964, the First BASIC Program 258
Facial Hair and Computer Languages 199
Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection 222
Ruby and Java Running in JavaScript 220
Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations 334
Malware Modification Contest Has Antivirus Vendors Upset 167
IBM Trying To Patent Timed Code Inspection 146
Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More 567
New Attack Exploits "Safe" Oracle Inputs 118
Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961
Sun to Fully Open Source Java 374
Google Announces Summer of Code 2008 Projects 35
ExtJS 2.1 AJAX Library Switches To GPL 57
Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion? 384

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