Development

RAD Basic – the Visual Basic 7 that never was – releases third alpha

Spend your weekend wallowing in the good old days

Software06 May 2022 | 71

Red Hat uncorks Application Foundations for cloud-native development

Ready-to-implement components that make the business easier, firm claims

Applications26 Apr 2022 |

GitLab issues critical update after hard-coding passwords into accounts

Fixed passphrases for OmniAuth users not such a great idea

Security01 Apr 2022 | 6

Microsoft starts 2022 with big bundle fixes for 96 security bugs in its software

Patch Tuesday Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and programming errors

Security12 Jan 2022 | 11

We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE

First look Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense

Software09 Dec 2021 | 5

AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps

Re:invent Plus: Why company foresees growth of Rust, already widely used internally

Applications03 Dec 2021 |

Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it

Chocolate Factory's cross-platform framework seems to struggle to craft efficient desktop software

Applications12 Nov 2021 | 40

It's that time of the year again when GitHub does its show'n'tell of features – some new and others kinda new

Universe event reveals iterative improvements but no big bang

Devops27 Oct 2021 | 5

Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming

But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more

Software21 Oct 2021 | 4

Google fiddles with cross-platform Flutter and Dart to boost performance, tooling

Devs also urged to ditch 'pedantic' lint rules

Applications08 Sep 2021 |

Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation

Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized'

Software09 Aug 2021 | 76

Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist

It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert

Software22 Jul 2021 | 83

Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly

One publisher's attempt to roll the internet back to a more innocent time

Software20 Jul 2021 | 94

‘What are the odds someone will find and exploit this?’ Nice one — you just released an insecure app

Feature Who’s to blame: devs or management? And how do we cure application vulnerability epidemic

Security25 Jun 2021 | 72

What you need to know about Microsoft Windows 11: It will run Android apps

The operating system they said shouldn't exist

OSes24 Jun 2021 | 258

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated'

Software07 May 2021 | 69

If Google and Apple won't help us, we'll sort it out the Linux way: 21 companies form Mobile Native Foundation

Lyft, Microsoft, Slack, Capital One, Airbnb become bedfellows

Applications04 Mar 2021 | 6

Google's multi-platform app framework Flutter reaches version 2, expands to the web

The same tech inside Google Pay, Shopping, Analytics, Ads, etc

Applications03 Mar 2021 | 7

ASEAN bloc's five-year ICT Masterplan was too big to be a winner, says final report

Good tech policy vital as Asian states climb out of the COVID-19 crunch

Off-Prem03 Mar 2021 | 1

GitHub turns on money tap for corporate open-source donations, turns off the lights with dark mode design

Welcome to the GitHub Universe

Devops08 Dec 2020 | 5

Intel Labs unleashes its boffins with tales of quantum computing, secure databases and the end of debugging

Machine programming and other future technology touted at Chipzilla shindig

Science04 Dec 2020 | 15

DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers

If you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch

PaaS + IaaS07 Oct 2020 | 3

Cross-platform app toolkit Flutter lead Tim Sneath aims Dart at an ambient computing future

Interview 'We've made a deliberate attempt to build something that can share source code across all these environments'

Devops01 Oct 2020 | 15

Swift tailored for Windows no longer folklore: Apple's programming language available for Microsoft OS

The Redmond-aligned can try the Cupertino-spawned lingo thanks to a Googler's intervention

Software23 Sep 2020 | 24

Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps

Extension developers told to look elsewhere for a sales provider

Software23 Sep 2020 | 12

At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development

Programmers put decade-old package out to pasture, advise devs to find alternatives

Software15 Sep 2020 | 15

Oracle's Java 15 rides into town, waving the 'we're number one' flag, demands 25th birthday party

'51 billion' active JVMs can't be wrong

Software15 Sep 2020 | 41

Hidden Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release – by using developer chatter as a side channel

Data mining of code commits and chat gives hackers a cunning edge

OSes04 Sep 2020 | 56

Sigh. Another day, another reason for WordPress users to get patching: Hackers abuse bug in popular plugin

Sites with WP File Manager should update ASAP – exploits in the wild

Security03 Sep 2020 |

Google Chrome 85 to block ads that hog power, CPUs, network: Web ads giant will black-hole 0.3% of web ads

So brave... but not so Brave

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 26

Critical vuln that lets miscreants hijack computers via Slack? *Sucks in air* We'll give you $1,750 for it

Chat app chaps, Electron security, Microsoft Teams under fire

Security31 Aug 2020 | 18

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

Draft spec reduces pages to inscrutable data blobs, says privacy bod

Software27 Aug 2020 | 95

If you want to hijack widely used JavaScript packages, try phishing for devs through these DMARC-shaped holes in key Node.js domains

npmjs.com, nodejs.org open to spoofing, we're warned

Devops25 Aug 2020 | 11

C++ still rules the Chromium roost though Rust has caught our eye, say browser devs

Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe

Software19 Aug 2020 | 37

Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message

Some OpenPGP, S/MIME-capable email clients vulnerable to attack

Security19 Aug 2020 | 17

Robust Rust trust discussed after Moz cuts leave folks nonplussed: Foundation mulled for coding language

Cannot infer an appropriate lifetime, indeed

Software18 Aug 2020 | 11

Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest

Rust enters the top 20, and yes, JavaScript is still number one

Devops28 Jul 2020 | 38

Amazon's auditing of Alexa Skills is so good, these boffins got all 200+ rule-breaking apps past the reviewers

Want your AI assistant to shout obscenities or hate speech at your child? There's a program for that

AI + ML23 Jul 2020 | 24

Babe, I've changed! Twitter wants to try a relationship again with devs after first major API tweaks in years

Shouty social network hopes external coders can make it a better place

Software16 Jul 2020 | 9

When you see PWA, Microsoft and Google want you to think Programs With Attitude: Web app release tool tweaked

More native applications we smoke, yo, our rep gets bigger

Software13 Jul 2020 | 20

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

As a colossal commit count crashes into Linux 5.8-rc5

OSes13 Jul 2020 | 272

Apple says if developers are unhappy with its App Store decisions, it will entertain appeals against its rulings – and even its own rules

WWDC The Lord of the iThings will see you now

Software23 Jun 2020 | 5

Facebook boffins bake robo-code converter to take the pain out of shifting between C++, Java, Python

Using machine learning to get rid of those awkward code breaks

Software12 Jun 2020 | 33

Developers renew push to get rid of objectionable code terms to make 'the world a tiny bit more welcoming'

'Blacklist' and 'master' keep getting removed from source code

Software08 Jun 2020 | 235

In Rust, we lust: Security-focused super-C++ language still most loved among Stack Overflow denizens

Trendy systems programming lingo tops poll fifth year on the trot

Software28 May 2020 | 33

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

A simpler alternative to site slurping

Devops21 May 2020 | 5

Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works

Programming language ready to leave the wilderness for mass adulation

Devops15 May 2020 | 75

Nine in ten biz applications harbor out-of-date, unsupported, insecure open-source code, study shows

Free-as-in-speech software is wildly popular – keeping libraries, components up to date is not

Software12 May 2020 | 40

If it feels like the software world is held together by string and a prayer, we don't blame you: Facebook SDK snafu breaks top iOS apps

Update used wrong data type, causing Tinder to Spotify to fall over

Software08 May 2020 | 14

Cloudflare goes retro with COBOL delivery service. Older coders: Who's laughing now? Turns out we're still vital

Dust off your COBOL code and give it new life in WebAssembly

SaaS16 Apr 2020 | 123

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many?

Software26 Mar 2020 | 108

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Facebook's popular frontend framework can't escape its heritage

Software20 Mar 2020 | 30

Microsoft's GitHub absorbs NPM into its code-hosting empire: JavaScript library vault used by 12 million devs now under Redmond's roof

Developers! Developers! Developers! And all their infrastructure!

Software16 Mar 2020 | 41

Let's Encrypt? Let's revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on Wednesday, more like: Check code loop blunder strikes

Tons of TLS certs need to be tossed immediately after Go snafu

Security03 Mar 2020 | 78

If you're writing code in Python, JavaScript, Java and PHP, relax. The hot trendy languages are still miles behind, this survey says

Do not pass Go, do not collect garbage

Devops02 Mar 2020 | 126

World Wide Web's Sir Tim swells his let's-remake-the-internet startup with Bruce Schneier, fellow tech experts

Inrupt promises a pro-privacy solution to managing, protecting personal data

Networks24 Feb 2020 | 44