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If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly
Ask Sam Ramji About the CodePlex Foundation
EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun
English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder
Service Oriented Architecture With Java
Doubts Raised About Legal Soundness of GPL2
Open Source Not Welcome At Palm App Catalog
Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools
Archos Releases Dev Edition Firmware For Tablets
Dumbing Down Programming?
Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals
Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools
Palm Frees Up webOS Development
Father of Wiki Speaks on Collaborative Development
"Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0
According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated"
Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google
Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays
Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android
Coverity Report Finds OSS Bug Density Down Since 2006
DragonFly 2.4 Released
Finding New Code
Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code
Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools
Google Releases the SDK For Version 1.6 of Android
Google To Host International SVG Conference
Google Wave Backstage
Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student
HTC Finally Releases Hero Source Code
Has the WebOS Finally Arrived?
Haskell 2010 Announced
Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters?
How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments?
How Google Uses Linux
IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software
Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy
Initial WebGL Support Lands In WebKit
Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame
Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games?
Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation
Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE
Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt
Nokia Releases Qt 4.6
Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims
Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans
Red Hat's Max Spevack On Defending Linux Freedom
Senators Ask EC To Let Oracle-Sun Deal Go Through
Squatters Abusing iPhone App Store
Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time"
The Duct Tape Programmer
The Kafka-esque Nightmare of Palm App Submission
The NoSQL Ecosystem
The Sad State of the Mobile Web
The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug
Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser
We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance
Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder?
Wordpress.org Warns of Active Worm Hacking Blogs
X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions
iPhone Gets .Net App Development
Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud
Microsoft Donates Code To Apache's "Stonehenge" Project
Which Phone To Develop For?
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced
Whither the 19th IOCCC?
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python
Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick"
The Evolution of Python 3
Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer?
Vendor Pays OSS Developers for Enterprise Support
Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming
Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake
AIM Now (Mostly) Open To Developers
Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself?
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive
PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist
Developer Stress Crippling Game Innovation?
Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion?
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns
How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me?
Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers
Ruby 1.9.1 Released
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par
Building the JDK on Debian GNU/Linux
High-level Languages and Speed
Sun Backs Ruby by Hiring Main JRuby Developers
State Trooper Fights For His Source Code
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours
Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software?
Cryptol, Language of Cryptography, Now Available To the Public
iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers
Smart Software Development on Impossible Schedules
Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight
Apple Announces New Open Source Efforts
Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler
Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant
Boxee Launches New API
Ballmer Sounds Off
Linux Kernel 2.4 Or 2.6 In Embedded System?
Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support
Python 3.0 Released
Silverlight 2.0 Released
Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby
Loebner Talks AI
Open Source About the People
Five Questions With Michael Widenius
Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source
Why Developers Are Switching To Macs
Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous?
Independent Data and Formatting with Microformats
Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language
First KDE 4 Snapshot Released
64-Bit Java For Linux
Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download
Lead PHP Developer Quits
Python-to-C++ Compiler
Cobol Job Market Heating Up
Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users
How Open Does Open Source Need to be?
Draft Review of Java 7 "Measures and Units"
Mastering the Grails Powerful Tiny Web Framework
State of the OpenJDK Project and Java 7
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4
Java EE 6 Platform Draft Published
Twitter On Scala
Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations
Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update
Windows Loses Ground With Developers
18 Years in Software Tools, an Insider's View
GDC 06 So Far
Google to Hold Worldwide Developer Day
Homebrew on Consoles Detailed
Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl
Is the Relational Database Doomed?
Motorola's New Open Source Resource
Bill Gates's Last Speech
Stallman to step down as Emacs maintainer
Where's the "IronPerl" Project?
MySQL Co-Founder Monty Widenius Quits Sun
Sun Opens Modeling Tools
Adobe's iPhone Hail Mary
Android 2.0 Released
Apple Pulls Out of India
Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?
Are You a Blue Collar or White Collar Developer?
Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up
CRU data leak enters phase two.
Cerf Launches UK Recruiting Tour
Facebook ditches App Verification Program
JaikuEngine Gets Open Sourced
Learning Ext JS
Microsoft to Publish Blue Hat Findings
Microsoft's top devs don't seem to like own tools
NY Bill Proposes Tax Credit for Open Source Developers
Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake
The Realities of Selling Independently Developed PC Games
The Sad State of the Mobile Web
Why Developers Get Fired
Yahoo! Launches Python Developer Center
iPhone Gets .Net App Development
Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins
From Windows to Linux: One Developer's Tale
Making a Living from open source (a year later)
Trying to Bust Javascript Out of the Browser
What Programming Languages Should You Know?
Previewing Dapper And Edgy
Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy
Microkernel: The Comeback?
Ballmer Speaks on His Solo Act
Landing IT Work Overseas
LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition
Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge
EiffelStudio Goes Open
Google Releases AJAX Framework
MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs
Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5
Ballmer: Don't Expect Simpler Licensing Soon
Adobe's iPhone Hail Mary
Android 2.0 SDK Released, Google Maps Navigation Announced
Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?
Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?
Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine
Game Development On Android
Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go"
Indie Game Dev On the Positive Side To DRM
Mickos Urges EU To Approve Oracle's MySQL Takeover
Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store
The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance
Why Developers Get Fired
Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives
New Contestants On the Turing Test
Software Engineers Ranked Best Job in America
Benchmarking 3 PHP Accelerators
Microsoft Launches OSS Site, Submits License For Approval
2006 OpenBSD Hackathon Well Underway
First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3
Visualizing Complex Data Sets?
Java Static Analysis And Custom Bug Detectors