Web applications and software are built in stacks, or in layers if you prefer to look at it this way. These layers include the front end which is basically the user interface and deals with design ...

Stack is one of those words you’d probably never use in a conversation – “How’s your stack treating you these days, John?” – but once you start noticing, it’s everywhere. Examples range from companies ...

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 ...

JavaScript is the most in-demand programming language for developer jobs and one of the most versatile languages for full-stack development. Here's what you need to know about JavaScript. JavaScript ...

Since Facebook’s Carlos Bueno wrote the canonical article about the full stack, there has been no shortage of posts trying to define it. For a time, Facebook allegedly only hired “full-stack ...

So how do you stay ahead of the curve when it comes to managing your software development career, while at the same time not getting overwhelmed by the proliferation of new tools and technologies? Is ...

First, the average developer is 28.9 years old, and 53 percent of developers are in their 20s. Only 10 percent are over 40. However, American developers are 31.6, on average, which is higher than the ...

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 ...

Most applications we develop are stupidly simple, so almost anyone can do them. Too bad our dev tools don’t work that part of the stack well Find someone who calls himself a “full-stack developer” and ...

Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A site for programmers, is also co-founder of Fog Creek Software, and one of the founders of project management app Trello. Spolsky, known for his blog ...