Windows and Mac OS X: Hackety Hack is an application designed to teach complete beginners how to program in Ruby, eventually giving you the ability to create actual applications for the desktop and ...

Some people believe that everyone should be a programmer. But Frank Duff is living proof this notion should be taken with a large grain of salt. In 2003, Duff quit his job as a software developer and ...

Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn’t ...

Computer security experts in both government and the private sector are monitoring the emergence of a new, sophisticated hacker program that connects infected computers to far-flung peer-to-peer ...

Facebook is launching a loyalty program for white hat hackers alongside a description language designed to standardize the process of reporting bugs. The Facebook Bug Description Language (FBDL) is ...