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Microsoft announced that their Microsoft developer tools are adding support to decentralized source code version control using Git. The highly-popular Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server are to support Git. The Team Foundation Service will host and support Git repositories. In addition, Visual Studio will also have Git support. In view of this announcement, Microsoft has released a Community

Java is considered as one of the most popular object-oriented computer programming language in the world. Learning the language takes a lot of time and effort but an idea started by Computer scientists at the University of California, aims to teach how to program Java in an easy way. The computers scientists at the UC, San Diego have developed an immersive, first-person player video game designed

The world's brightest and highest-paid software engineers worked in the companies which paid them the most. Technology companies have a good reputation in treating their employees well, especially the software engineers. Companies who want the smartest software engineers have to pay top dollar to both attract and retain them. Software engineers were the backbone of any technology companies. In

Major updates were released by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group to its developers in order to address several vulnerabilities, including a high-risk one that could allow attackers to crash the server, modify configurations variable as superuser or execute arbitrary code if certain conditions are met. The popular open-source database system, PostgreSQL, released the update on Thursday, April

Google announced the opening of Google Code Jam 2013, the challenged which involves professionals and student programmers around the world to solve tough algorithmic puzzles using the programming language and development environment of their choice. Google however, asked participants that the compiler or interpreter is freely available. You can't used paid-for tools. The contest will be

The world's largest search engine company, Google has already teamed up with the fastest-growing online programming site, Code School to produce a training course that covers the developer tools available in Chrome for developing and debugging web apps. The developer tools from Chrome are based on the WebKit inspector which gives developers deeper access into the internals of the browser and their

A 9-year-old girl, Mackenzie Wilson, got a collective support of a Kickstarter campaign that will help her fund her very own role-playing game creation. With the help of her mother, Susan Wilson, the Mackenzie turned to crowdfunding site to raise around $829, enough money to cover her entrance fee to the RPG STEM Camp, a program where kids learn necessary skills to build their own video games. The

Microsoft Windows made a considerable effort to populate it's app store, by offering a $100 per app with a limit of up to $2,000 for apps published in the Windows and Windows Phone Stores before June 30, 2013. Windows noted that the offer is only limited to legal residents of the 50 US States, aged at least 18 years old and are U.S. registered Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store Developer

The Google Developers Blog have announced that the Google BigQuery has been updated with a greater range of query and data types that adds more flexibility with table structure, and better tools for collaborative analysis. The Google BigQuery is Google's tool that lets your run SQL-like queries against large datasets. The tool is designed to work most effectively when used for interactive analysis

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is asking once again for people to join its "mass collaboration" effort to produce open-source solutions that address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in Space. The International Space Challenge 2012 registration is now open while the day of the "codeathon" will be held this coming April 19-21, 2013. During last year's event