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Uni profs: Kids today could do with a bit of 'mind-crippling' COBOL

Forget Lua, time go to old skool

11 Mar 08:31

Boy Scouts get Game Design badge

Programming, animation, CAD and 'digital technology' also in the works

11 Mar 00:42

On International Woman's Day we remember Grace Hopper

Feature The Rear Admiral who changed the world of computing

9 Mar 02:22

Amazon slashes DynamoDB prices

NoSQL flash-backed database gets cheaper

8 Mar 23:20

PayPal enters 21st Century with developer tools refresh

REST-based APIs, mobile SDK among first wave of updates

8 Mar 23:04

Leaked: The 'secret OAuth app keys' to Twitter's VIP lounge

Rogue apps could pose as micro-blogging site's Very Important Programs

8 Mar 15:03

Red Hat: We still love Java 6, even if Oracle doesn't

Says it's taking over leadership of OpenJDK 6

8 Mar 02:15

Red Hat tempts devs with OpenShift Origin upgrades

Moves all pull requests to GitHub for community equality

7 Mar 21:25

Android 'splits' into the Good and the lovechild of Bad and Ugly

Top-end kit world away from crippled cheap cousins, warns analyst

7 Mar 08:29

Next Windows 8 version can ditch bits of Metro

Keep calm, Metro-haters, it's the embedded version and it's not a backdown

7 Mar 00:51

First C compiler pops up on Github

Nostalgic value only unless you have a PDP-11 handy

6 Mar 06:28

Canonical announces Mir display server to replace X Windows

Plans to rewrite Ubuntu's GUI from ground up

5 Mar 00:46

Microsoft offers developer tools for its lonely Office Store

Visual Studio kit for building Office add-ons exits preview

4 Mar 22:03

Google open sources very slow compression algorithm

Your server will hate it but your mobe will love it

1 Mar 05:59

Baidu offers English-speaking devs chance to crack China

Fortune and glory await in world's largest smartphone market

1 Mar 04:06

CloudBees in PaaS THREESOME with Cloud Foundry tie-up

Java cloud caught in VMware love-in seeks 'other relationships' as well

28 Feb 20:09

Upstart Aerospoke flings NoSQL ninja star into data-centre rings

Ouch! Right in the topology

28 Feb 11:31

Sony lifts skirt on Firefox OS with developer ROM for Xperia E

Ubuntu's not the only half-baked mobile OS around

27 Feb 20:44

Ruby 2.0.0 adds syntax sparkle, boosts performance

First major stable release in five years

26 Feb 01:55

Open source port-a-thon brings Ubuntu to more phones, tablets

Now runs (badly) on more than just Nexus kit

25 Feb 20:23

You've made an app for Android, iOS, Windows - what about the user interface?

Where to find a sane design for all platforms

25 Feb 10:04

Free Riak database acts like depressed teenager to assure data reliability

Version 1.3 constantly interrogates itself to make sure data is ok

23 Feb 01:47

Hands-on with Ubuntu's rudimentary phone and tablet OS

Pics It's here, but there's not much you can do with it

23 Feb 01:31

Google announces I/O conference registration

Prepare for Glastonbury-like techie stampede

22 Feb 21:10

PSF warns on angry trademark attacks: Python coders, this is not our way

Hacktivism and threats 'not who we are or how we act'

22 Feb 16:56

Google App Engine update eases cloudy mobile app development

Cloud Endpoints let Android and iOS apps plug into Google’s backend

22 Feb 01:09

Xamarin chucks Apple fruit at Microsoft mobe wobblers

Apple iOS development extended to Visual Studio

21 Feb 15:35

Ad-titan Google blocks Adblock Plus in Android security tweak

We're being singled out, claims app maker

20 Feb 15:59

Agile development may be taught in Australian High Schools

New curriculum wants “IF” statements for early primary, SQL for tweens

20 Feb 00:07

John Lennon's lesson for public-domain innovation

Open ... and Shut IP protection hurting, not helping, US and UK

18 Feb 08:03

Dev preview of Ubuntu for phones touching down February 21

Get it for your Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 4

15 Feb 20:04

Firm moves to trademark 'Python' name out from under the language

Open-sourcers struggle against hostile snake snatch

15 Feb 16:52

Big Data: Why it's not always that big nor even that clever

And as for data scientists being sexy, well...

13 Feb 14:31

Coming soon: Open source JavaFX for iOS, Android

Will enable cross-platform Java-based UIs – but why?

12 Feb 21:33

Competition crowdsources blisteringly-fast software

TopCoder challenge helps immune system research

11 Feb 00:42

JBoss is juicy, but Vert.x could bring sexy back to Red Hat

Linux shop man on app servers, business and keeping devs interested

8 Feb 11:05

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