Developers Stories for 2008

Microsoft Releases Pre-2007 Binary File Format Specs 269
What Do You Want On Future Browsers? 628
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows 229
Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced 188
Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China 279
Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE 346
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
The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple 782
Anatomy of a Runaway Project 326
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
Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK 120
Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM 536
Best Chair For Desktop Coding? 742
New Method for Rendering Particles Outlined 17
Apple Quietly Fixes DTrace 144
Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help 973
Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook 355
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
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development 173
HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web 117
Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects 193
Sony Gives Educational Access To PS2/PSP SDKs 41
'Extreme Programming' Controls Phoenix Mars Lander 119
Mozilla Experiments With Site Security Policy 68
Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Platform 34
Drive-By Contributors to the Linux Kernel 61
FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion 120
Brian Aker On the Future of Databases 175
Games Need More Artfully Story-Entwined Gameplay 145
Microsoft Linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails 232
Rails 2.1 Is Now Available 71
Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta 314
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
Ajax Security Tools 16
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
Mozilla Dev Team On Firefox's Success 184
Picking the Right Eclipse Distribution 78
HyperCard, What Could Have Been 159
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
Mono's WinForms 2.0 Implementation Completed 164
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
How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level 172
The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug 213
Processing Visualization Language Ported To Javascript 171
The Future of Subversion 173
Data Mining In Law Enforcement 148
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released 390
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
Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? 234
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
Tilera Releases 64-Way Chip Dev Tools 72
NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS 496
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
Yahoo! Expands Open Web Platform Plans 67
Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961
Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community 280
Microsoft Suggests Carving Up HTML 5 113
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
Hackontest — 24h Open Source Coding Marathon 50
NULL Pointer Exploit Excites Researchers 327
Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features 509
The Return of Ada 336
Run Google App Engine Apps On Amazon's Cloud 39
MySQL 5.1 Improves Performance, Partitioning, Bug Fixes 146
Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets 217
A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit 132
College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB 322
Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type 196
Inside Intel's $20M Multicore Research Program 187
Creative Vista Driver Modder Speaks Out 318
Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms 179
Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer? 328
Stroustrup Says C++ Education Needs To Improve 567
iPhone's Development Limitations Could Hurt It In the Long Run 452
Amazon EC2 Now More Ready for Application Hosting 149
IBM Invests In MySQL/Oracle Competitor 204
More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US? 342
Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay 86
The P.G. Wodehouse Method of Refactoring 133
Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0 248
Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates 458
Visualizing the .NET Framework 320
Summer of Code'08 Organizations List Announced 48
Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs 190
An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life 234
Open Source Growing At an Exponential Rate 146
A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly 421
iPhone SDK Rules Block Skype, Firefox, Java ... 800
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 356
Panic in Multicore Land 367
Donkey Kong and Me 123
Sun Is Porting Java To the iPhone 275
Little Demand Yet For Silverlight Developers 314
Apple Targeting Business World for the iPhone 338
When Should We Ditch Our Platform? 622
Using Excel As a 3D Graphics Engine 292
CS Degrees Low in 2007 But Bouncing Back 265
UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable 79
Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize 205
Sun Hires Two Key Python Developers 173
Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator' 188
A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons? 131
Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software 559
Adobe To Port AIR To Linux 218
Google Announces Summer of Code 2008 110
The Blurring Line Between PC and Web 84
iPhone SDK May Be 1-3 Weeks Late 157
AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation 94
Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy 738
RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer 321
Programmers At Work, 22 Years Later 136
AMD Open Sources the AMD Performance Library 59
Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Engineering 217
Microsoft Releases Office Binary Formats 259
SFLC's Legal Guide On Free Software 59
Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students 555
Developers Warned over OOXML Patent Risk 134
Computer Models Find Patterns In Asymmetric Threats 214
Where Are Tomorrow's Embedded Developers? 245
LLVM 2.2 Released 128
Joel Spolsky On How To Bootstrap a Business 75
W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic 334
Zvents Releases Open Source Cluster Database Based on Google 87
The Future of XML 273
Open Source Code In a Closed Source Company 286
Fedora 9 "Sulphur" Alpha Released 62
2008 Turing Award Winners Announced 66
PostgreSQL 8.3 Released 286
The Life of a Software Engineer 519
Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing' 162
Desktop Environment for Proprietary Applications? 146
Extending SpamAssassin and Amavis 25
SVN's svn:externals To GIT's Submodule 40
Google's Summer of Code Headed Down Under 41
Feedback Sought for Proposed Mobile Firefox UIs 28
The Great Microkernel Debate Continues 405
Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos 210
Mastering the Grails Powerful Tiny Web Framework 89
You Used Perl to Write WHAT?! 307
IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All 434
Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? 273
Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port 476
W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 310
Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students 626
perl6 and Parrot 0.5.2 Released 229
MapReduce — a Major Step Backwards? 157
Tools For Understanding Code? 383
Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes 110
SPARQL Graduates to W3C Recommendation 111
Sun Buys MySQL 588
SimCity Source Code Is Now Open 360
How to Recognize a Good Programmer 529
Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree 126
Inside Visual Studio 2008 127
Rails May Not Suck 160
What Skills Should Undergrads Have? 587
TIOBE Declares Python the Programming Language of 2007 166
Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students 1267
Announcing the Coadunation 1.0.1 Daemon Server 13
Rails Bigwig Rails on Rails Community 616
One Laptop Per Child Application Development 33
Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game 214

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