Development Approaches

Microsoft, Juniper, others in coding consortium issue guidelines for safer applications

SAFECode releases practical guidelines for weaving security into the Agile coding process

Teen’s website uses plain English to explain complex software licenses

TLDRLegal is similar in concept to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's TOSBack project, which was set up to provide info on 56 popular websites

QCon: Application development faces seismic shift

Java overtook C++ in popularity because it was better suited for the Web, argues Oracle's chief of development

Baseball, Apple Pie and Technology

Even the grand old game is better with tech.

Facebook posts its internal C++ software library

Facebook's Folly library includes many components tuned to high-performance operations

IT Should Forget Development, Focus on Requirements and Release Management

Researcher runs IP network over xylophones

A University of California graduate student has shown how to transmit Internet packets by playing them on xylophones

Cassandra Stays Ahead Of The NoSQL Pack

1.1 release from Apache has significant new features

Microsoft and Apache: When Pigs Fly

Forget what software they released, Microsoft is adopting the Apache license!

Google working on advanced Web engineering

The Web needs a unified component model, a Google engineer advises