Neil McAllister poses questions on the minds of myriad developers: How do programmers maintain their value in the marketplace when the state-of-the-art changes so quickly? Or, does the current abundance of tools just signify that the Wild, Wild West of Web development is coming to an end? The Web development skills crisis. Dubbing the program BOSS, for Build Your Own Search Service, Yahoo opens search APIs that will enable Web sites to create services based on its search infrastructure and algorithms. Talk of Internet bug spawns backlash from hackers. Dan Kaminsky even admits to breaking the rules by bragging about a DNS bug he found, and some skeptics are unimpressed. But the larger issue is that the problem needs to be fixed. The Nuwar storm worm, meanwhile, exploits U.S. and Iran tensions by promising to link to a video showing the beginning of World War III, according to a security firm, but clicking on the link automatically runs the malware. And the Novell-sponsored openSuse project for Linux released openSuse Build Service 1.0, which both provides access to code repositories for the distribution, and makes it easier for developers to contribute code. Software Development