One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars this week, to the great relief – and joy – of many. Now, of course, the fun part begins: letting this Mini Cooper-sized nuclear-powered mobile ...

It all started with a request from the developers of a messaging application to an open source developer to change the name of a library. It ended with JavaScript developers around the world crying ...

Last weekend, some anonymous “specialist” told the New York Times that “5 million lines of software code may need to be rewritten” in order to fix the mess that is healthcare.gov. (The good news, ...

Go ahead and take a wild guess as to how many lines of code make up the entirety of Google’s services. We’re talking everything here — search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs etc. Now you might want to ...

Google share stats on the volume of code it manages and, not surprisingly, it’s a whole heck of a lot Software code, it seems, is all around us today. It’s in obvious places like your computer, tablet ...