The problems you encounter with user acceptance testing aren't technical. They're all political. You can't solve all of the messes when things go wrong – but you can do quite a bit to prevent them.

When it comes to a Linux distribution that explores the outer limits of what Linux can do, Fedora should be your distro.

No, that's not a misprint. The famed open-source developer has come out of retirement to join Microsoft Developer Division and continue his work on the Python language.

Like its ancestors before it, the latest Dell 13 Linux Developer Edition is an exceptional programmers' laptop.

Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds talked about Linux developers, hardware, and coding in their latest, and first virtual Linux conversation.

We can make open-source software safer and more secure when we all work together.

Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of unemployment claims brought by the coronavirus crisis.

We'd like an easy way to judge open-source programs. It can be done. But easily? That's another matter. When it comes to open source, you can't rely on star power.

Applications need to go global, but language support comes at a cost. For one thing, supporting multiple languages demands additional testing rigor.

Developers sometimes try to use feature development strategies to find bugs—and that doesn't always work. How do we know when our debugging process doesn’t work? and what alternative strategies can we adopt so we can find bugs more easily?

Serious defects happen, despite the best efforts of QA departments. Here’s what you can learn from real world screw-ups, so you can avoid making the same mistakes.

I was sitting down with a couple of my fellow programmers after a long day of testing our new online shopping cart, and we asked ourselves a very important question: Why don’t most science fiction books get the feel of programming right?

To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers.

Do you remember the first time you saw Rails' ActiveSupport library? I do: it totally blew my mind. The only dynamic language I had used up to that point was Perl, and it had a similarly mind-blowing effect on my young self. I thought that... | Steve Klabnik | “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” - Emma Goldman

Chris Granger is a computer programmer who thinks programming kinda sucks. It’s too complicated and too esoteric and too sprawling. But he hopes that his latest invention can change all that. Built alongside friend and colleague Robert Attorri, his creation is called Light Table, and he believes it can not only improve programming for seasoned engineers like himself, but put the power of coding into the hands of so many others. “We consider programming a modern-day superpower.

Perhaps you encountered these in math classes or an elective in your CompSci degree, and think they’re just “theoretically” interesting. (Or not.) But, Tom Henderson argues, these have relevance to the real world of programming too.

ChartJS provides a set of visualization widgets that allow you to transform data to its most appropriate, concise, and readable visual representation.

Open source HTML5 charts using the canvas tag. Chart.js is an easy way to include animated graphs on your website.

As software developers we put a lot of focus on simplicity. And rightly so, because making code readable and understandable keeps it from becoming a maintenance nightmare. Simplicity is often confused though with how many lines of code there are.

For a limited time, GameMaker Studio Standard edition is available for free. Valued at $49.99, GameMaker Studio Standard is a significant improvement upon the free version of the software which imposes harsh restrictions on the resources that developers can make use of.