The Citizen Developer. The Citizen Developer Becomes the Human-in-the-Loop. By Howard M. Cohen; December 22, 2025; This column launched as "The Citizen Developer" on October 17, 2 ...

Ol' Linus is at it again. Outspoken Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week, in his usual imitable style, blasted a volunteer developer for not fixing a problem and basically "fired" the guy from ...

If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 25, introducing new features for its native image technology, while confirming that future development of the platform will shift away from the Java release cycle ...

OpenAI has made its gpt-image-1 image generation model available through its public API, giving software developers direct access to the same system that powers image creation in ChatGPT. The release ...

Cloud services provider DigitalOcean announced the launch of its new GenAI Platform at its biannual developer conference, Deploy, in Austin, Texas. The platform is designed to help businesses of all ...

Testing mobile apps can be a pain, especially with the wide range of OS versions in the Android ecosystem and myriad devices with different screen sizes, resolutions, capabilities and so on -- while ...

I should have been writing this column, but instead, I’ve been playing cards with my sister. She trounced me. Twice. I’m in California visiting my parents for a week, so it’s been tough for me to sit ...

Microsoft has supercharged its Security Copilot platform with 11 new autonomous AI agents designed to help developers and security teams triage phishing alerts, remediate vulnerabilities, and secure ...

The OpenJS Foundation today announced the release of Node.js 21, the latest release line of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment and library for running web applications ...

You’ve undoubtedly heard or seen the phrase "vibe coding," and you may even be worried that this is something you’re not ready for. The good news is you’re wrong about that. If your earliest results ...