If you can use your desktop environment, then you can also write programs: All you need is your mouse, the Alice IDE, and some time to experiment.

The Tizen project announces the general availability of Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK.

According to Dice, the recession is over for software developers, system administrators, and other IT specialists.

Phusion Passenger 4 offers improved scalability, Python WSGI support, multithreading, and better error diagnostics.

SSH can make you crazy if the WLAN connection keeps breaking down, the IP address changes, or the data packets trickle over a slow mobile connection. AutoSSH and Mosh offer some features you won’t find in ordinary SSH.

Largely unnoticed by the public, the Mozilla Foundation is tinkering with its own programming language, Rust, which is intended to make writing reliable, fast, and concurrently running applications easier. For this purpose, the developers are borrowing generously from other languages.

Codethink announces version 1.1 (aka Secret Volcano) of its Baserock Embedded Linux software. Baserock is a Linux build system for the development of embedded, industrial or bare-metal, server-based Linux systems.

A choice of ultrasmall boards lets future developers learn how to create and program computers.