Software Development

Micro Focus to buy dev-ops shop Serena in $540M deal

Survey finds most coders are self-taught

Self-taught and on-the-job training are the paths most taken.

Edward Snowden: Privacy can’t depend on corporations standing up to the government

Service providers aren't to be trusted, Snowden says at Free Software Foundation's LibrePlanet event at MIT

Microsoft extends open source push with developer productivity tools

A set of the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools are now available on GitHub

10 hard-core coding tips for faster Python

Python programmers have many options for improving the performance of their apps; here's where to start

Microsoft continues Linux lovefest with open source network software SONiC

Open source software can be used to build networking equipment

GitHub releases Scientist: So developers and operations can measure twice, cut over once

GitHub recently released a new open source tool that is designed on helping modernize legacy code safely and reliably.

Microsoft Visual Studio adds R support

Obama’s big data project targets community improvement

White House Opportunity Project initiative is a grass-roots effort to push out government data and encourage nonprofits, developers and others to build new community-improvement tools.

21 hot programming trends — and 21 going cold

Hot or not? From the Web to the motherboard to the training ground, get the scoop on what's in and what's out in app dev