Collaborate Disseminate
Unlike the today’s consumer computer market, the 1980s were the wild west in comparison. There were all kinds of different, incompatible operating systems, hardware, and programs, all competing against one …read more Continue reading It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down for This 80s Handheld
Pundits aggregate results from multiple pollsters to minimize biases. So ZDNet tried the same approach, but aggregating rankings for the popularity of 19 top programming languages. Senior contributing editor David Gewirtz combined results from nine pop… Continue reading Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages
theodp writes: Typos happen to the best of us, but spelling still counts when it comes to software development. So, it’s kind of surprising to see that both Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky failed to notice an embarrassing typo in… Continue reading Amazon and AWS Developers May Not Want To Invite Their CEOs To Java Code Reviews
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon’s GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q:
On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from … Continue reading Amazon CEO: AI-Assisted Code Transformation Saved Us 4,500 Years of Developer Work
Linux creator Linus Torvalds expressed disappointment with the slow adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit China. In a conversation with Verizon executive Dirk Hohndel, Torvalds said, “I was expecting updates … Continue reading Linux Creator Torvalds Says Rust Adoption in Kernel Lags Expectations
Security Week brings news about CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions in build processes. Some workflows can generate artifacts that “may inadvertently leak tokens for third party cloud services and GitHub, exposing repositories and services to compromi… Continue reading ‘GitHub Actions’ Artifacts Leak Tokens, Expose Cloud Services and Repositories
Wednesday GitHub “broke itself,” reports the Register, writing that “the Microsoft-owned code-hosting outfit says it made a change involving its database infrastructure, which sparked a global outage of its various services.”
Or, as the Verge puts it… Continue reading GitHub Promises ‘Additional Guardrails’ After Wednesday’s Update Triggers Short Outage
Jimmy Miller, programmer and co-host of the future of coding podcast, writes in a blog: When I started programming as a kid, I didn’t know people were paid to program. Even as I graduated high school, I assumed that the world of “professional developme… Continue reading ‘The Best, Worst Codebase’
Is it possible to edit the code for applications downloaded from Apple App Store or Google Play?
Is it possible to edit the code for applications downloaded from Apple App Store or Google Play?