The Heartbleed bug has ignited a new round of open source doubters, but are the renewed concerns about the open source development model unfounded? And what can be done to avoid catastrophes like this in the future? We discuss.

Plus an honest discussion about that moment of no return, your feedback, and more!

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Feedback

• How do you know what to use?
• I quit!!! The difficult conversations and the road ahead.

Dev Hoopla

Heartbleed security bug: a software developer perspective?

Open Source software is the worst kind except for all of the others

A few people have suggested that the problem is that OpenSSL is open source, and code this important should be left to trained professionals. They\’re wrong.

So all in all, it\’s a miracle that OpenSSL works at all, and a tribute to the skill
and diligence of the handful of people who\’ve been working on it all these years.
Experience with heartbleed shows that while open source doesn\’t prevent bugs, it
makes it very fast to fix them.
It\’s been little more than a week since we learned about heartbleed, and surveys show that
the majority of vulnerable systems are already fixed.
(I fixed mine last Tuesday.)

Pick of the week

• pyvideo.org – PyCon US 2014
  > PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. It is produced and underwritten by the Python Software Foundation

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Android growth is exploding, and showing no signs of slowing down… So why are big players still avoiding the platform? We’ll challenge some common misconceptions on why developers avoid Android.

Plus big Silicon Valley tech companies get busted colluding to keep wages low, the contractor fudge factor, your feedback..

And more!

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• iOs Dev
• Amazon.com: Programming in Objective-C (6th Edition) (Developer\’s Library)
• Reinventing the framework
• A defense for Contract companies
• Emails From Eric Schmidt And Sergey Brin On Hiring Apple Workers
• DigitalOcean Wins!
• Digital Ocean’s Journey From TechStars Reject To Cloud-Hosting Darling
• The price of innovation

Dev Hoopla:

Why don’t designers take Android seriously?

Hack Programming Language

• Hack Isn’t PHP – Marco.org

PHP has always been poorly designed and poorly stewarded, but it\’s appealing to developers because it\’s easy to learn (and tons of programmers already know it, so it\’s easy to hire for), it\’s everywhere and runs on anything, it\’s very fast, and it\’s very simple to host and maintain server-side. In short, it\’s extremely practical.

Since Facebook is migrating its own code to Hack, pure PHP will become a less-tested second-class citizen on HHVM. This could devalue HHVM to the outside world, throwing away the benefits it’s bringing to PHP programmers everywhere. The closeness of the two languages will probably prevent this from becoming a significant problem, but it’s a problem nonetheless.

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The Play Framework has been on Mike’s mind a lot recently. Also known as JavaPlay, an easy way to build web applications with Java and Scala. This week Mike shares what started out as a grand idea, but developed into a major reboot and overhaul of the project.

And why in the end, no matter what platform, software stack, or store you choose or avoid is always a risky choice.

Plus: How to bounce back from burnout, find new motivation, and get started.

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GoDaddy.com Use our code coder295 to get a .COM for $2.95.

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Feedback

• Getting started

• Check out Code School for guided projects

• In Sweden with Questions

• binpress.com Good or BAD?

• Lacking Motivation to Code

Dev Hoopla

• Play Framework – Build Modern & Scalable Web Apps with Java and Scala

• java – Play Framework: Real-world production experiences?

• Heroku | Play! on Heroku

• Getting Started with Play! on Heroku | Heroku Dev Center
• Heroku Play Framework Support | Heroku Dev Center
• Heroku Java
• heroku/template-java-play · GitHub

• Windows Azure Pricing Calculator

Pick of the week:

• edufii.com – Athletes are Made

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