Development Tools

Facebook’s secret to shipping millions of lines of code each day

It's no secret at all. After hacking PHP to make it run faster, Facebook does the same with Mercurial source control

9 technologies for a supercharged 2014

Get to know the database and PaaS technologies that will run the enterprise in 2014

MIT’s new algorithm could solve thorny optimization problems

Mathematicians introduce a formula that reduces the time it takes to calculate the best path through a network

How am I doing? GitHub lets developers visualize project stats

Developers can use GitHub Traffic Analytics service to gauge interest in their projects

GitHub cranks delivery speeds, adds analytics

The popular online code repository now has page analytics and improved security

Programmers without TDD will be unemployable by 2022

15 hot programming trends — and 15 going cold

Programming trends that might surprise the boss, but shouldn't surprise you in the year ahead

Midori and M#: Microsoft’s open source bridge to better security?

Speculation about Microsoft's M# language is wide-ranging, but it may be the foundation to a secure, non-Windows OS

App dev 2013: The winners and losers

It was a year of interesting surprises, as lighter and faster tools moved from trendy to entrenched in the world of enterprise programming

Mobile app developers’ interest in HTML5 is slipping

Quarterly survey of developers also finds NSA revelations are not having much impact on mobile development in the U.S.