Programming Stories for 2009

Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? 605
IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193
5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open 162
Ruby In Practice 104
GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar 198
How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? 799
Racist Facial Recognition Software 49
Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 597
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? 426
Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? 558
What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? 428
The Book of Xen 88
Music While Programming? 1019
ECMAScript Version 5 Approved 158
The Perl 6 Advent Calendar 160
Defining Useful Coding Practices? 477
Is Linux Documentation Lacking? 769
Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser 531
Nokia Releases Qt 4.6 6
Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals 84
Building 3D Models On the Fly With a Webcam 93
Dumbing Down Programming? 578
Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses 173
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder 291
The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89
Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer 269
Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed 275
Ask Sam Ramji About the CodePlex Foundation 77
We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance 260
Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework 320
If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly 660
Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? 836
Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools 200
StarCraft AI Competition Announced 200
Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" 512
Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language 831
Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners 87
X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions 542
Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone 133
Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? 579
How To List FOSS Experience On Your Resume 103
Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2 521
Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store 305
Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark? 467
Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" 619
Platform Independent C++ OS Library? 310
Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame 117
De Icaza Responds To Stallman 747
"Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0 433
Best Developer's Laptop? 672
Perl 5.11.0 Released 235
Open Source Not Welcome At Palm App Catalog 174
Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google 152
The Duct Tape Programmer 551
Data Locking In a Web Application? 283
Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006 79
COBOL Celebrates 50 Years 277
Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder? 318
Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser 176
iPhone Gets .Net App Development 327
Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day 306
Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch 342
Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server 113
Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown 576
How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half 158
Con Kolivas Returns, With a Desktop-Oriented Linux Scheduler 333
Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection 61
First Hot-Ice Computer Created 120
Coders At Work 207
iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest 233
Collaborative Filtering and the Rise of Ensembles 58
Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt 263
Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? 434
Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline 683
Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems 268
Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield 96
DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun 162
Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays 109
The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker 282
Scala, a Statically Typed, Functional, O-O Language 299
Simple, Portable Physics Simulations 145
C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? 389
14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest 141
Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 299
First Look At Palm's Mojo SDK 128
A Standardized OS For Robots 184
Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Contest 56
Neuros LINK Mixes Quiet, Aesthetics, and Ubuntu 121
21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online 74
Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer? 162
Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x 346
Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community 241
Google's Launches 2nd Android Developer Contest 26
Mario AI Competition 110
Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips 93
Emacs Hits Version 23 367
Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" 909
Sun's JRuby Team Jumps Ship To Engine Yard 77
Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire 100
Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule 274
New Leader In Netflix Prize Race With One Day To Go 87
Copyright Status of Thermodynamic Properties? 154
The Best First Language For a Young Programmer 634
Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later 501
'Power Capping' the Datacenter 112
Even Faster Web Sites 171
Open Source Languages Rumble At OSCON 197
Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid 122
Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? 405
How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 220
Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? 302
Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255
WebKit For Metacity/Mutter CSS Theming? 124
62% of Sun's Stockholders Vote For Oracle Deal 152
Google's Chiller-Less Data Center 132
0 A.D. Goes Open Source 88
The Best Game Engines 113
6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL 367
Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris 205
Hello World! 199
Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? 537
How To Teach Programming To Kids, Via XBox 124
Developer Stigma After a Bad Or Catastrophic Release? 223
Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development 598
Best Mouse For Programming? 569
CJKV Information Processing 2nd ed. 52
Volunteer Programming For Dummies? 195
Open Source Search Engine Benchmarks 62
Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule 153
Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released 153
IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler 146
What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer? 324
NSA To Build 20-Acre Data Center In Utah 226
PostgreSQL 8.4 Out 191
Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma 83
PHP 5.3 Released 120
Does the 'Hacker Ethic' Harm Today's Developers? 436
Richard Stallman Says No To Mono 1008
How To Get Out of Developer's Block? 601
IT and Health Care 294
Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux 195
On the Humble Default 339
An Experiment In BlackBerry Development 207
Oracle Kills Virtual Iron 189
State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All 427
New PHP Interpreter Finds XSS, Injection Holes 66
The "Doctor Who" Model of Open Source 116
HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight 500
Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects 48
Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report 190
Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability 177
Are Code Reviews Worth It? 345
Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating 333
Oracle Beware — Google Tests Cloud-Based Database 123
New Exploit Uses JavaScript To Compromise Intranets, VPNs 87
Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? 794
How To Sponsor an Open Source Sprint 58
Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution 49
New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming 321
How Software Engineering Differs From Computer Science 306
Java's New G1 Collector Not For-Pay After All 171
PLplot Notes Its 10,000th Commit 66
One Approach To Open Source Code Contribution and Testing 83
Splash, Splatter, Sploosh, and Bloop! 100
KDevelop4 Beta 3 Released 59
SQL in a Nutshell 86
Can "Page's Law" Be Broken? 255
VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? 301
Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages 491
Are Amazon's Web Services Going Open Source? 42
Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support 587
Lightweight C++ Library For SVG On Windows? 130
Beginning Python Visualization 46
What Free IDE Do You Use? 1055
MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition 316
Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? 334
Mac OS X Users Vulnerable To Major Java Flaw 306
Why Programming Rituals Work 233
Finding a Personal Coding Trifecta 188
Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records 139
Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae 73
Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() 486
MySQL Founder Starts Open Database Alliance, Plans Refactoring 153
The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is 367
Java Program Uses Neural Networks To Monitor Games 100
Have Sockets Run Their Course? 230
Qt Opens Source Code Repositories 230
OpenOffice UI Design Proposals Published 252
Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language 297
Oracle Won't Abandon SPARC, Says Ellison 280
OpenOffice 3.1 Released 327
An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 307
The Manga Guide to Databases 236
A Look Into the FBI's "Everything Bucket" 31
Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss 731
Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? 234
Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions 207
Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks 306
2009 ACM Programming Contest Results and Webcast 49
Project Management For Beginners? 168
Ballmer, IBM Surprised By Oracle-Sun Deal 324
Highlights From the 2009 Google Summer of Code 72
Oracle Buys Sun 906
Philosophies and Programming Languages 239
Brendan Eich Explains ECMAScript 3.1 To Developers 94
What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? 586
Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support 186
Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? 1127
Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? 354
COBOL Turning 50, Still Important 314
Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises 233
Researcher Resurrects the First Computer 149
Advanced Open Source Engine Based On Quake 3 137
What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? 237
Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? 211
Google App Engine Adds Java Support, Groovy Meta-Programming 168
Twitter On Scala 324
Strange Glitches In Games 282
Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? 1077
Locating the Real MySQL 335
Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance 234
What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers 292
Crowdsourcing JavaScript Testing 41
"Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs 267
Programming Language Specialization Dilemma 569
Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons 344
Oracle's Take On Red Hat Linux 165
From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? 374
Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects 44
It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux 261
Parrot 1.0.0 Released 120
Computer Science Major Is Cool Again 328
Best Practice For Retiring RSS Feeds? 71
DB Query Becomes Browseable In Virtual World 82
Assemble the Social Web with Zembly 29
Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? 1134
Site Compatibility and IE8 214
Refactoring SQL Applications 159
Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award 187
A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students? 214
The Realities of Selling On Apple's App Store 223
Congress Mulls API For Congressional Data 121
Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh 232
QT 4.5 Released, Plus New IDE and Analysis Tool 62
Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake 612
Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress 240
Detecting Click Tracks 329
Securing PHP Web Applications 229

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