Just five years ago, it was common for programmers to be expected to master all levels of the software stack. If your company built a web app using PHP for the back end and MySQL for storage, it hired ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

Editor’s note: Peter Yared is the founder and CTO of Sapho and was formerly the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive. It seems as though everyone in tech today is infatuated with the full-stack developer. Full ...

The phrase “every company is a software company” has never been more true than it is today. No matter what industry you are in, software is not only supporting your business but also driving it. At ...

Do you know who programmers really are? What they really do? Or what tools they use? Let's see how closely your guesses come to the reality of the 50,000 plus developers who responded to Stack ...