And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
Programming pioneers bag $1m prize
01 Apr 2021 | 26
Devops
Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama
If the license doesn't fit, you must commit
29 Mar 2021 | 5
OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers
For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure
26 Mar 2021 |
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries
Watchdog bites Uncle Sam and Lockheed Martin over $14bn-and-counting efforts
25 Mar 2021 | 90
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
Updated Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package
25 Mar 2021 | 55
Trail of Bits security peeps emit tool to weaponize Python's insecure pickle files to hopefully now get everyone's attention
Alternatively: Python's pickle pilloried with prudent premonition of poisoning
19 Mar 2021 | 24
SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China
Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...
18 Mar 2021 | 7
GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references
11 Mar 2021 | 120
This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders
Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago
10 Mar 2021 | 51
Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
Cryptographic software assurance backed by Google, Red Hat, Purdue U
09 Mar 2021 | 10
Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted
Unauthorized versions of CuPy and other projects flood PyPI
02 Mar 2021 | 10
Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?
Who, Me? We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame
01 Mar 2021 | 151
Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs
Biased terms can't be ‘grandfathered’ in either – that’s also on vendor's list of language best avoided
01 Mar 2021 | 272
IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement
Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems
23 Feb 2021 | 28
Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time
Feature Popular programming language, at the top of its game, still struggles to please everyone
20 Feb 2021 | 78
People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event
Be honest, what's YOUR 'bus factor'?
16 Feb 2021 | 10
Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms
Fail fast, fail often
15 Feb 2021 | 24
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12 Feb 2021 |
Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack
Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries
10 Feb 2021 | 33
Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account
Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation
08 Feb 2021 | 43
Humble Apple Pie: Cupertino sweetens pot to get its DTK prototype machines returned after developer backlash
Tosses in extra cash 'to recognize the tremendous effort ... put into creating amazing universal apps'
08 Feb 2021 | 13
SitePoint hacked: Hashed, salted passwords pinched from web dev learning site via GitHub tool pwnage
If you started off there, best change your reused credentials
05 Feb 2021 | 4
New CloudBees boss Stephen DeWitt wants to up the SaaS factor, wouldn't say no to IPO
Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back
04 Feb 2021 |
In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module
Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on
02 Feb 2021 | 121
Clearing up this mesh: Linkerd creator 'not a fan' of steering committees but went ahead and made one anyway
Group aims to represent 'the voice of the user'
02 Feb 2021 | 1
It didn't (sob)... even make it (sniff)... to GA: Microsoft to pull the plug on Azure Service Fabric Mesh
A sad-faced engineer leads it round the back of the barn. A single shot rings out
29 Jan 2021 | 10
Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain
Got a few (thousand) dollars to spare?
28 Jan 2021 | 60
GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
Customer: 'It feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth'
27 Jan 2021 | 57
A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript
O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'
26 Jan 2021 | 27
Tesla axes software engineer for allegedly pilfering secret Python scripts after just three days on the job
WARP Drive process automation code said to be 'extremely valuable'
24 Jan 2021 | 105
Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol
Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'
19 Jan 2021 | 80
How can you flip your software delivery ops from own goals to meaningful goals?
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18 Jan 2021 |
It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol
Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe
14 Jan 2021 | 138
Netherlands minnow Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangler
Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but it's still early days
12 Jan 2021 | 3
Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero
Column Good for users and good for you
11 Jan 2021 | 70
React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components
Server-side React solves 'many other problems we have had for a while' says Core developer
07 Jan 2021 | 51
