General Douglas MacArthur famously said during his 1951 farewell address to the U.S. Congress that “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” A half century later, MacArthur’s statement could just as easily apply to programming languages...

A decade ago last month, Bill Gates wrote the now-famous Trustworthy Computing email that challenged Microsoft (and the broader IT and dev community) to fundamentally improve the security, reliability and robustness of applications and code. At Microsoft...

Gotta love leap year. Every four years (more or less, since there are rules to this thing , you know) we are awarded an extra day in what is widely regarded as the worst month of the year. More February? Who needs that? How about adding a July 4-and-1...