The final steps are being made in the Google v. Oracle copyright case, which will put the fate of programming in the hands of the Supreme Court.

The ‘copyright case of the decade’ is a $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant, Google, nearly 10 years ago. Google is asking for the Supreme Court to hear the case. Will it happen? By Roger Parloff.

What is a bug? Asking that question can send you on an unusual journey, especially when you consider games like Caves of Qud, where a ‘flaw’ could easily be an incredible source of tactical complexity. “it’s possible to acquire a mental mutation that lets you dominate the minds of other creatures,” says Caves of Qud cocreator Jason Grinblat. “what this means is: for a limited duration, you walk around the map as the dominated creature—with access to their skills and powers...

Honoring the creation of BASIC

Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE. (updated for 2019)

Organizations that prefer open source are more successful across industries in implementing DevOps practices.

Many of us prefer alternative markdown text editors for the content to write and take notes using the MarkDown language.

In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.

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.

Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language in this video that shows how the symbolic programming language enables powerful functional programming, querying of large databases, flexible interactivity, easy deployment, and much, much more. To learn more about the Wolfram Language, visit reference.wolfram.com/language.

When it comes to mathematical explanation or mathematical search engine, no one can beat Wolfram Alpha. Believe me, even Google can’t beat it. Now, It’s time for a language. Knowledge based language, It’s how Stephen Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram Research has started with. The Computational knowledge. Symbolic programming. Algorithm automation. Dynamic interactivity. Natural language. Computable documents. The cloud. Connected devices. Symbolic …

When it comes to mathematical explanation or mathematical search engine, no one can beat Wolfram Alpha. Believe me, even Google can’t beat it. Now, It’s time for a language. Knowledge based language, It’s how Stephen Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram Research has started with. The Computational knowledge. Symbolic programming. Algorithm automation. Dynamic interactivity. Natural language. Computable documents. The cloud. Connected devices. Symbolic …

Seriously Apple? Seriously? GOTOs? In your Secure-Socket Layer implementation? What were they thinking? Apple, Apple! When Ed Post wrote in 1983 that Real Programmers aren’t afraid to use GOTOs he was kidding! No one should ever use go-to statements in any program.