Developers Stories for 2013

US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions 228
Not All Bugs Are Random 165
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? 606
Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS 145
Ruby 2.1.0 Released 65
Why Don't Open Source Databases Use GPUs? 241
Is Ruby Dying? 400
Asm.js Gets Faster 289
Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? 612
Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? 218
Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows 199
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found 85
IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists' 148
KDE Releases Applications and Development Platform 4.12 44
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy 154
Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 336
The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty 81
Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views 123
Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart 190
More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years 287
KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 93
Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject 236
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities 45
Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding 207
King James Programming 184
Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome 165
Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? 506
Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling 198
Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework 48
The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability 286
How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? 275
Inside the War For Top Developer Talent 238
Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript 144
Sebastian Thrun Pivots Udacity Toward Vocational Education 86
Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation 100
Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years 90
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? 465
Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows 132
23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers 111
San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros 109
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing 138
Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls 381
If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript 152
NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice 334
Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE 209
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio 197
Milverton Wallace Organizes Hackathons in Great Britain (Video) 11
Canonical Developer Warns About Banking With Linux Mint 206
GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features 181
Ask Slashdot: What Makes You Uninstall Apps? 243
Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting 295
Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language 168
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Dart 1.0 Released 121
Microsoft Releases Browser-Based IDE, Visual Studio Online 89
Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 159
Apple II DOS Source Code Released 211
Aging Linux Kernel Community Is Looking For Younger Participants 332
Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? 361
The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement 208
Stop Listening and Start Watching If You Want To Understand User Needs 161
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster 559
The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers 56
Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software 109
Speed Test: Comparing Intel C++, GNU C++, and LLVM Clang Compilers 196
New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips 128
Linux 3.12 Released, Linus Proposes Bug Fix-Only 4.0 274
River City Ransom: How an NES Classic Returned 20 Years On 39
Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison 98
Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders 204
Oracle Shareholders Vote Against Ellison's Compensation Package (Again) 213
Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov 404
MELT, a GCC Compiler Plugin Framework, Reaches 1.0 58
How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security 470
Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas 201
Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos 453
Oracle Eyes Optical Links As Final Frontier of Data-Center Scaling 14
GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 191
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose Frameworks That Will Survive? 227
Surgeon Simulator: Inside the World's Hardest Game 64
Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well 362
What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook 391
Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? 204
Teachers Get 1 Week To Test Tech Giants' Hour of Code 81
Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper 105
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? 473
Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? 268
Visual Studio 2013 Released 198
Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? 465
Capturing the Flag, SQLi-Style 24
VirtualBox 4.3 Comes With New Multi-Touch Support, Virtual Cam and More 114
Ask Slashdot: As a Programmer/Geek, Should I Learn Business? 167
The Curious Mind of Ada Lovelace 110
How To Develop Unmaintainable Software 211
Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior 394
Java Spec Compatibility Weakened Android's TLS Encryption 82
Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects 94
If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy 577
GNU Make 4.0 Released 179
Dangerous VBulletin Exploit In the Wild 43
How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game 85
HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You 477
What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? 598
What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov 267
Intel Launches 'Galileo,' an Arduino-Compatible Mini Computer 130
The Changing Face of Software Development 173
How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? 299
Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? 282
Woz Expounds On His Hacking Shenanigans and Online Mischief 65
The Most WTF-y Programming Languages 254
LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support 161
Frameworks 5: KDE Libraries Reworked Into Portable Qt Modules 68
Mozilla Plan Seeks To Debug Scientific Code 115
Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? 226
Oracle Promises 100x Faster DB Queries With New In-Memory Option 174
Crowdfunding Platform For Drupal Development Launches 38
Ask Slashdot: Prioritizing Saleable Used Computer Books? 219
Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? 245
A C++ Library That Brings Legacy Fortran Codes To Supercomputers 157
Amazon "Unlaunches" & Postpones $100,000 Civic Apps Contest For AWS 17
Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive? 311
Java Update Implements Whitelists To Combat 0-Day Hacks 55
NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake 148
A New Way To Fund Open Source Software Projects, Bug Fixes and Feature Requests 52
OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers 297
IBM Promises $1B Investment In Linux Development 109
Preventing Cheating At Hackathons 104
Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? 321
Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool 68
Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? 207
How IP Law Helps FOSS Communities 98
Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? 356
SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work 552
Java 8 Developer Preview Released 189
How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project 176
Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs? 238
Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn 566
A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs 191
Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? 129
PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account 443
Team Oracle Penalized For America's Cup Rules Violations 190
Writing Documentation: Teach, Don't Tell 211
Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density 187
Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live 67
Mechwarrior Online Developer Redefines Community Warfare 189
Code For America: 'The Peace Corps For Geeks' 58
For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad 340
Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? 190
Researchers Reverse-Engineer Dropbox, Cracking Heavily Obfuscated Python App 242
Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM 413
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? 301
Afraid Someone Will Steal Your Game Design Idea? 140
Interviews: Guido van Rossum Answers Your Questions 169
Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required 210
Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum 242
How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard 214
Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? 189
Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? 205
Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? 892
Open Source Licensing Debate Has Positive Effect On GitHub 96
Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed 692
SDL 2.0 Release Improves 2D/3D Rendering, Better Audio & New Features 42
Finland's Upper Secondary School Exams Going All-Linux 55
Back To 'The Future of Programming' 214
How To Build a Simple Open Source Server Monitoring Solution With Mobile Support 58
NVIDIA Open Sources SHIELD's Operating System 83
Ask Slashdot: Is Development Leadership Overvalued? 252
Using Zillow's Creative Commons Neighborhood Boundary Data For the U.S. 32
Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail 583
Samsung Smart TV: Basically a Linux Box Running Vulnerable Web Apps 166
The Rising Power of Developers 122
Using Java In Low Latency Environments 371
CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service? 54
Ask Slashdot: Is Tech Talent More Important Than Skill? 277
Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? 479
Sad Day In FarmVille: Facebook's New Game Developer Program 52
Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? 142
German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code 228
22nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest Starts Thursday 1 Aug 2013 48
"Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs 142
Oracle Sues Companies It Says Provide Solaris OS Support In Illegal Manner 154
Hackers Using Bots, Scripts To Lock Down Restaurant Reservations 214
Look Out, Nuance: Apple's Office Near MIT Is Stocking Up With Speech-Tech Talent 50
Love and Hate For Java 8 434
Microsoft Will Allow Indie Self-publishing, Debugging On Retail Xbox One 99
Ingy döt Net Tells How Acmeism Bridges Gaps in the Software World (Video) 164
The Last GUADEC? 376
DIY Satellite Tracking 30
Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years 118
Fedora Project Developer Proposes Layered, More Agile Design to Distribution 74
Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases 87
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Most Painless Intro To GPU Programming? 198
Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels 52
MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest 141
Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela 71
Ask Slashdot: Scientific Research Positions For Programmers? 237
Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison 543
Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses 120
Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language 1501
Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies 145
Former Sun Mobile JIT Engineers Take On Mobile JavaScript/HTML Performance 106
An Interesting Look At the Performance of JavaScript On Mobile Devices 157
The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders 156
Database Loophole Lets Legislators Avoid Photo Radar Tickets 165
Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? 106
Are Amazon Vine Reviews of Technical Books a Joke? 126
Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? 372
Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 4.0 With Test Receipts 41
Interviews: Ask James Gosling About Java and Ocean Exploring Robots 87
No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013 199
Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk 445
Why JavaScript On Mobile Is Slow 407
The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol 345
Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? 221
India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 157
Study Finds Bug Bounty Programs Extremely Cost-Effective 95
Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? 304
Deus Ex Creator On How a Video-Game Academy Could Fix the Industry 132
The Dangers of Beating Your Kickstarter Goal 168
Book Review: Programming PHP 3rd Edition 155
Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 432
Modeling How Programmers Read Code 115
Oracle Quietly Switches BerkeleyDB To AGPL 219
Who Will Teach U.S. Kids To Code? Rupert Murdoch 138
Harlan: a Language That Simplifies GPU Programming 195
Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS 86
BART Strike Provides Stark Contrast To Tech's Non-Union World 467
Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers 641
The Simian Army and the Antifragile Organization 66
How Facial Analysis Software Could Help Struggling Students 90
Clinkle Wants To Become Your Wallet 121
How Silicon Valley's Tech Reign Will End 395
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Update Your Technical Skills Inventory This Summer? 208
Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff Suddenly Playing Nice, Weirding Everyone Out 27
Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas 274
Node.js and MongoDB Turning JavaScript Into a Full-Stack Language 354
Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code 381
Review: Oracle Database 12c 147
Monty Suggests a Business-Friendly License That Trends Open 43
Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? 472
Join COBOL's Next Generation 276
The IRS vs. Open Source 356
Perspectives On the Latest IBM Layoffs 135
Book Review: Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide 81
The Security Risks of HTML5 Development 275
Oracle and Microsoft To Announce Cloud Partnership Monday 82

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