Developers Stories for 2014

India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory 78
Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure 112
School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees 355
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 552
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History 149
MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language 194
North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force 166
Subsurface 4.3 Released 38
Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? 421
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower 221
Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress 31
The Joys and Hype of Hadoop 55
New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible 208
Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End 156
Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release 54
Microsoft To Open Source Cloud Framework Behind Halo 4 Services 50
Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices 307
Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS 62
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 75
FreeNAS 9.3 Released 115
Apple, IBM Partnership Yields First Results: 10 Mobile Apps 53
Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools 105
How Relevant is C in 2014? 641
The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons 205
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Microsoft Introduces .NET Core 187
Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages 161
Node.js Forked By Top Contributors 254
Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software 133
Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? 584
Samsung's Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers 51
Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python 277
UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database 150
Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile 130
A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? 274
The Life of an ATLAS Physicist At CERN 34
Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights 333
DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github 323
Ask Slashdot: IT Career Path After 35? 376
In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games 312
Ask Slashdot: Objective C Vs. Swift For a New iOS Developer? 211
Debian Forked Over Systemd 647
Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam? 291
Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages 127
2014 Hour of Code: Do Ends Justify Disney Product Placement Means? 125
Upgrading the Turing Test: Lovelace 2.0 68
Startup Assembly Banks On Paid, Open-Source Style Development 33
It's Not Developers Slowing Things Down, It's the Process 186
As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines 496
"Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon 561
Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) 163
Ask Slashdot: Professionally Packaged Tools For Teaching Kids To Program? 107
HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile 133
Do Good Programmers Need Agents? 215
World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old 276
Billionaire Donors Lavish Millions On Code.org Crowdfunding Project 84
Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team 550
Open Source Self-Healing Software For Virtual Machines 50
Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) 192
Ask Slashdot: Who's the Doctors Without Borders of Technology? 112
Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? 223
Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy 204
Five Years of the Go Programming Language 82
Amazon Goes After Oracle (Again) With New Aurora Database 102
Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform 525
Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday 320
Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech 459
New Book Argues Automation Is Making Software Developers Less Capable 212
Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign 107
Mozilla Launches Browser Built For Developers 74
Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted 260
Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months 173
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Data Warehouse Server System? 147
Florida-Based Magic Leap Builds Its Team With Bay Area Hires 161
Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again 214
The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality 217
Tech Recruiters Defend 'Blacklists,' Lack of Feedback, Screening Techniques 253
Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs 132
The 7th Underhanded C Contest Is Online 41
Amazon Releases (Not Many) Details On Its Workforce Demographics 123
It's Time To Revive Hypercard 299
Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations 158
Mark Zuckerberg And John Doerr Donate $1M To Expand The Hour Of Code Campaign 24
Getting 'Showdown' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Rift 30
Google Announces Project Ara Developer Conference, Shows Off First Prototype 66
It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard 125
Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App 145
Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment 608
OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed 24
Tetris Is Hard To Test 169
Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers 106
New Oculus SDK Adds Experimental Linux Support and Unity Free For Rift Headset 24
New Microsoft Garage Site Invites Public To Test a Wide Range of App Ideas 72
Microsoft, Ask.com, Oracle Latest To Be Sued Over No-Poach Deal 47
NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders 786
Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit? 104
Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code 164
Help ESR Stamp Out CVS and SVN In Our Lifetime 245
Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries 198
Be True To Your CS School: LinkedIn Ranks US Schools For Job-Seeking Programmers 130
JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface 195
The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google 205
Cisco Exec: Turnover In Engineering No Problem 148
Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment 98
Mixing Agile With Waterfall For Code Quality 133
For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love 164
Adobe: Click-to-Play Would Have Avoided Flood of Java Zero-days 111
Microsoft's JavaScript Engine Gets Two-Tiered Compilation 46
Microsoft, Facebook Declare European Kids Clueless About Coding, Too 213
Oracle Database Certifications Are No Longer Permanent 108
The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store 229
Fighting the Culture of 'Worse Is Better' 240
Interviews: Ask Florian Mueller About Software Patents and Copyrights 187
Despite Push From Tech Giants, AP CS Exam Counts Don't Budge Much In Most States 144
How Poor Punctuation Can Break Windows 94
Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source) 57
Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) 239
CSS Proposed 20 Years Ago Today 180
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429
Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World 547
Google Takes the Fight With Oracle To the Supreme Court 146
Google Code-In 2014 and Google Summer of Code 2015 Announced 15
Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support 114
Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline 342
Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility 349
Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination 227
Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support 365
Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws 81
Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project 40
Interview With Facebook's Head of Open Source 29
Building Apps In Swift With Storyboards 69
How To Find the Right Open Source Project To Get Involved With 57
Ask Slashdot: Software Issue Tracking Transparency - Good Or Bad? 159
Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America 96
Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? 316
PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB In New Round of Tests 147
Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway 365
Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate 165
Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? 479
The Site That Teaches You To Code Well Enough To Get a Job 131
jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware 103
Outlining Thin Linux 221
'Reactive' Development Turns 2.0 101
KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity 184
Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Becoming a Complacent Software Developer? 275
A Beginner's Guide To Programming With Swift 72
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down 142
An Open Source Pitfall? Mozilla Labs Closed, Quietly 112
IOCCC 2014 Now In Progress 14
Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd 385
Ask Slashdot: Have You Experienced Fear Driven Development? 232
College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class 270
Digia Spins Off Qt As Subsidiary 33
New Release of MINIX 3 For x86 and ARM Is NetBSD Compatible 93
Industry-Based ToDo Alliance Wants To Guide FOSS Development 54
Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't 183
KDevelop 4.7.0 Released 48
Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment 144
Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money 215
UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack 198
Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative 387
John Romero On Reinventing the Shooter 266
Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? 282
GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD 314
Scala Designer Martin Odersky On Next Steps 94
IT Job Hiring Slumps 250
Carmack On Mobile VR Development 60
LLVM 3.5 Brings C++1y Improvements, Unified 64-bit ARM Backend 99
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? 729
Privacy Vulnerabilities In Coursera, Including Exposed Student Email Addresses 31
Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help 116
Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? 546
Can ISO 29119 Software Testing "Standard" Really Be a Standard? 152
Bringing New Security Features To Docker 29
New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster 161
Code.org Discloses Top Donors 59
Yahoo Stops New Development On YUI 79
MIPS Tempts Hackers With Raspbery Pi-like Dev Board 88
Hal Finney, PGP and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies At 58 40
Google Introduces HTML 5.1 Tag To Chrome 94
IEEE Guides Software Architects Toward Secure Design 51
State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers 34
PHP 5.6.0 Released 118
How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest 232
The Grumpy Programmer has Advice for Young Computer Workers (Video) 120
MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released 73
If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? 511
Oregon Sues Oracle For "Abysmal" Healthcare Website 212
NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers 116
How Game Developers Turn Kickstarter Failure Into Success 30
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? 548
Interviews: Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Your Questions 102
C++14 Is Set In Stone 193
Software Combines Thousands of Online Images Into One That Represents Them All 66
Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers 371
Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic, and Blockly 18
Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development 127
Ask Slashdot: What Recliner For a Software Developer? 154
Interviews: Ask Bjarne Stroustrup About Programming and C++ 427
Ask Slashdot: Corporate Open Source Policy? 57
Auralux Release For Browsers Shows Emscripten Is Reaching Indie Devs 44
New Watson-Style AI Called Viv Seeks To Be the First 'Global Brain' 161
The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer 294
New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One 306
Wiring Programmers To Prevent Buggy Code 116
Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia 254
Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time 371
Google Fit Preview SDK Arrives For Android Developers 13
Valve Discloses Source 2 Engine In Recent DOTA 2 Update 97
Oracle Database Redaction Trivial To Bypass, Says David Litchfield 62
Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? 637
Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's 195
Ask Slashdot: Good Technology Conferences To Attend? 131
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About the Sorry State of FOSS Documentation? 430
Mozilla Dumps Info of 76,000 Developers To Public Web Server 80
How Many Members of Congress Does It Take To Pass a $400MM CS Bill? 180
Comparison: Linux Text Editors 402
Getting Back To Coding 240
Peter Hoddie Talks About His Internet of Things Construction Kit (Video) 53
Ask Slashdot: When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It? 209
PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification 180
Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM 213
Is the App Store Broken? 258
Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Released 47
seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source 82
Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond) 315
Put Your Code in the SWAMP: DHS Sponsors Online Open Source Code Testing 67
Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Resources On Programming For Palm OS 5? 170
A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World 133
Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs 97
Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture 511
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Get (or Share) News About Open Source Projects? 85
VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding 225
'Just Let Me Code!' 372
The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry 962
Researchers Test Developer Biometrics To Predict Buggy Code 89
US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers 529
Math, Programming, and Language Learning 241
Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 161
ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source 158
SRI/Cambridge Opens CHERI Secure Processor Design 59
Is the Software Renaissance Ending? 171
Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? 509
Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s 205
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University 136
Ask Slashdot: Best Dedicated Low Power Embedded Dev System Choice? 183

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