Programming Stories for 2015

Open Source Roles: Starters vs. Maintainers 77
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class 242
Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? 225
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
Perl 6 Released 145
Ruby 2.3.0 Released 45
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science 69
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% 349
Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub 49
Facebook, Google Top Year-End App List 30
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception 402
Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School 117
Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' 133
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace 124
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net 216
HHVM Beats Stable Version of PHP 7.0 In Recent Benchmark 39
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video #2) 14
Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids 105
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video) 27
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong 166
Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC 255
Facebook Shuts Down Creative Labs 62
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? 279
Google Santa Tracker Is Back 68
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? 397
The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs 241
Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Should Focus On Android Apps Not Universal Apps 121
Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project 195
PHP 7 Ready For Release 159
Software Engineer Liz Bennett Talks About Being a Woman in a Nearly All Male Workplace (Video) 370
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' 200
Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions 78
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS 134
How Computer Scientists Cracked a 50-Year-Old Math Problem 96
High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware 94
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
Stack Overflow and the Zeitgeist of Computer Programming 171
Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement 130
Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? 192
Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation 106
Interviews: Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Your Questions 42
Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code 160
Python Is On the Rise, While PHP Falls 232
Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? 168
Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? 371
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? 156
Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech 196
Interviews: Ask Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood a Question 129
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System 284
Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? 304
The 'Trick' To Algorithmic Coding Interview Questions 208
Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? 568
The $6,000 Computer Desk That Lets You Lie Down While You Work 116
Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It 153
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
FireEye: Many Companies Still Running XcodeGhost-Infected Apple Apps 23
Reverse-Engineering GTA V 37
Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? 47
Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics 576
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements 103
Bug Bounties Are Bonanza, For a Few Persistent Hackers 27
Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories 182
Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? 270
Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go 185
ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? 102
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
Despite $30M Tech Push, Half of US States Had Fewer Than 300 AP CS Test Takers 152
Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? 132
Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity 246
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Microsoft To Pay Up To $15K For Bugs In Two Visual Studio Tools 43
Facebook Launches Initiative To Attract More Minorities and Women To Coding 281
Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love 497
Fullstack Launches Coding School For Women 373
Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon 83
Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? 437
Why Developers Are Important To the Drone Industry 122
"Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design 153
Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise 161
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 187
DevOps: Threat or Menace? (Video) 65
3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development 75
Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? 241
Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team 325
Chicago Mayor Calls For National Computer Coding Requirement In Schools 217
Europe Code Week 2015: Cocktails At Microsoft, 'Ode To Code' Robot Dancing 15
Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 163
Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps 281
CodeWeavers To Release CrossOver For Android To Run Windows Programs 66
Twitter Shuts Down JSON API and Names New CEO 104
Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial 49
GitHub's Next Move: Turn Everybody Into a Programmer 145
Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? 131
Romance and Rebellion In Software Versioning 86
Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated 300
Reports: Volkswagen Was Warned of Emissions Cheating Years Ago 161
Meet the Michael Jordan of Sport Coding 103
The #NoEstimates Debate: An Unbiased Look At Origins, Arguments, and Leaders 299
How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? 618
Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines 262
Security is an Important Coding Consideration Even When You Use Containers (Video) 57
Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster 341
Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web 215
Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs 449
Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack 246
Microsoft Spending $75M To Boost K-12 CS Education, Put TEALS In 4,000 Schools 48
JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes 51
Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient 146
NYC Counting On Donations To Fund Required K-12 Computer Science Programs 21
APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code 255
It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? 241
Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time 100
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 1) 30
Do Tech Firms Really Want Liberal Arts Majors? 266
Node.js v4.0.0 Released 128
Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding 102
Get Big Fast: "500 Club" Delivers Teachers For Code.org 28
PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM 158
An Algorithm To Randomly Generate Game Dungeons 77
Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education 112
An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution 289
Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming 280
You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code 616
Netflix Open Sources Sleepy Puppy XSS Hunter 12
LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations 84
The Most Important Obscure Languages? 429
"Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs 211
Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries 182
In Praise of the Solo Programmer 114
Deep Learning Pioneer On the Next Generation of Hardware For Neural Networks 45
Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? 87
The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time 132
Standardized Tests Blamed, Asian Students Ignored In Google-Gallup K-12 CS Study 184
COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015 86
Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? 242
Google Releases Version 1.5 of Its Go Programming Language, Finally Ditches C 221
Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK 108
"Father Time" Gets Another Year At NTP From Linux Foundation 157
Rupert Murdoch Won't Be Teaching Your Children To Code After All 57
How 'Rock Star' Became a Business Buzzword 80
The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun 52
Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? 61
UK Industry Group Boss: Study Arts So Games Are Not Designed By 'Spotty Nerds' 207
Facebook Awards Researchers $100k For Detecting Emerging Class of C++ Bugs 73
GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps 167
Buzz: a Novel Programming Language For Heterogeneous Robot Swarms 30
LibreSSL 2.2.2 Released 33
Id Software Founds a New Office In Germany 50
Compiling to JavaScript: TypeScript vs. Haxe 94
Lessons From Your Toughest Software Bugs 285
CollegeBoard: Analyses of CS Study Benefits Shouldn't Be Interpreted As Causal 131
Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference 416
How Developers Can Fight Creeping Mediocrity 133
Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? 365
.NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters 149
Battle For Wesnoth Seeks New Developers 58
Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10 59
A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones 56
Why Certifications Are Necessary (Even If Aggravating To Earn) 213
GCC 5.2 Released 91
Microsoft Uses US Women's Soccer Team To Explain Why It Doesn't Hire More Women 212
Larry Wall On Perl 6, Language Design, and Getting Kids To Code 133
MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare 166
For Microsoft, Windows 10 Charity Begins At Home 74
ELIoT, Distributed Programming For the Internet of Things 91
Well-Played: Microsoft Parlays NSF Video 'Remake' Into National CS K-12 Crisis 69
13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K 264
Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers 167
WebAssembly and the Future of JavaScript 175
A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit 41
NVIDIA Hopes To Sell More Chips By Bringing AI Programming To the Masses 35
Even the "Idea Person" Should Learn How To Code 217
Linux 4.2-rc1 Is One of the Largest Kernel Releases of Recent Times 110
Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram 68
Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) 110
Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing 135
Qt 5.5 Released 80
Exploring the Relationships Between Tech Skills (Visualization) 65
Interviews: Linus Torvalds Answers Your Question 187
Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? 250
Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code 107
Nvidia Details 'Gameworks VR', Aims To Boost Virtual Reality Render Performance 25
How Computer Science Education Got Practical (Again) 154
The Programmer's Path To Management 125
Ask Slashdot: Choosing the Right Open Source License 171
To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery 126
SCOTUS Denies Google's Request To Appeal Oracle API Case 181
MIT System Fixes Software Bugs Without Access To Source Code 78
AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All 128
Mob Programming: When Is 5 Heads Really Better Than 1 (or 2)? 126
Amazon Opens Up Echo's Alexa To Developers 26
Google Asks Android Developers To Show Sensitivity To Disasters and Atrocity 96
Google Tests Code Repository Service 44
NVIDIA Begins Supplying Open-Source Register Header Files 77
The Open Container Project and What It Means 54
Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls 473
Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? 296
Knowing C++ Beyond a Beginner Level 345
MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project 175
Docker and CoreOS Join Together For Open Container Project At Linux Foundation 48
Ask Slashdot: Best Setups For Navigating a Programming-Focused MOOC? 39
Ask Slashdot: Best API Management System? 50
Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? 1067
WebAssembly: An Attempt To Give the Web Its Own Bytecode 126
Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem On the Decline? 250
ECMAScript 6 Is Officially a JavaScript Standard 80
Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development 355
GitHub Seeks Funding At $2 Billion Valuation 80
Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company 72
Report: Aging Java Components To Blame For Massively Buggy Open-Source Software 130
Facebook Has a New Private Mobile Photo-Sharing App, and They Built It In C++ 173
Open Source JavaScript Library Released For Accessibility Testing 21
Swift: Apple's Biggest Achievement For Coders 337
Starcoder Uses a Multiplayer Game to Teach Programming (Video # 2) 11
Starcoder Uses a Multiplayer Game to Teach Programming (Video # 1) 37
How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? 263
PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse 281
WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law 166
Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift 246
Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry 336
Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages 260
On Managing Developers 146
Cuba Forms a CS Professional Society -- It's No ACM 43
Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) 210
2014 Underhanded C Contest Winners Announced 27
Intel Security Scares Ransomware Script Kiddie Out of Business 117
Open Source Haxe/OpenFL Platform Will Support Home Game Consoles 20
Perl 5.22 Released 92
Ask Slashdot: Best Test Case Manager Plugin For JIRA? 70
MinGW and MSVCRT Conflict Causes Floating-Point Value Corruption 98
Let's Take This Open Floor Plan To the Next Level 156
Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code 306
How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? 336
Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy 208
Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders 446
A Conversation with Druva Co-Founder Jaspreet Singh (Video) 39
Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? 170
The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police 161
How Java Changed Programming Forever 382
The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read 414

Page: 1 2 →

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke