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Last week, an error in some automated high-frequency trading software from Knight Capital Group caused the program to go seriously amok, and when the cyberdust cleared, the company was left barely alive, holding the bill for almost a half-billion dollars to cover the erroneous trades. Much of the ensuing uproar […]

Defect documentation and tracking companies QASymphony and Fog Creek have teamed up to integrate the technology driving their qTrace Quality Assurance tool and FogBugz defect-tracking system. QASymphony’s qTrace works to document defects by recording all steps, screens, and system information associated with a defect. FogBugz tracks bugs, issues, and customer […]

Earlier this year, we ran an article about the emerging crop of native languages. The group included D, Go, Rust, and Vala. I promised then that we would eventually explore these languages in greater detail. This week starts that fun journey with what will be a five-part series on Go, […]

To paraphrase the late great David Foster Wallace, did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of software development reveals ideological strife and fanaticism on a nearly Godwin’s-law scale? Did you know that software development even had a seamy underbelly? It does, and its name is PHP, the world’s least-loved […]

Last time I talked a bit about Go, the relatively new systems programming language that Google is promoting. Of course, a systems programming language invites comparison to C and, in fact, Go is a lot like C with some extras thrown in. There is a “Tiny Go” runtime for embedded […]

Sonatype has launched Insight Application Health Check, an application component analysis designed to assess the integrity of open-source components at every phase of the software lifecycle. As a Component Lifecycle Management (CLM) player, the company says that this is a means of understanding the potential risks and opportunities associated with […]

Video rental company Netflix has used its extensive consumption of the Amazon Web Services cloud to give something back to the open source community. The company’s Chaos Monkey system was developed to ensure that its operations were capable of self-healing (or at least continuing to run) should instances in the […]

Java runtime scalability specialist Azul Systems has made its Zing JVM freely available to open source developers and projects that fall under the “development, qualification and testing” banner. What this means is that apps supporting commodity x86 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu […]

New this month from appMobi is openBuild, a free cloud service intended to allow developers to compile HTML5 code into a distributable “hybrid” apps. Using the hybrid term in this specific manner, the company says that many of today’s most popular apps (like Netflix, the New York Times, and Facebook) […]