Nick Heath is chief reporter for TechRepublic. He writes about the technology that IT-decision makers need to know about, and the latest happenings in the European tech scene.
Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.
The world needs more software programmers and MooCs and coding bootcamps promise to deliver the needed skills. But as an on-ramp to becoming a developer, they have debatable value.
Websites and apps should load faster from Google search for users of Chrome for Android following moves to prioritise slow-loading resources.
Major US companies have shared how running the node.js JavaScript platform is allowing them to serve web content more rapidly and efficiently.
Mozilla on how its Servo engine will throw away the 20th-century baggage that holds back current browsers and harness the power of modern multi-core smartphones and tablets.
Mobile web apps that use the Cordova platform for cross-platform compatibility can now be released on Mozilla's Firefox OS.
Google aims to stamp out stuttering and dropped frames in complex web apps in Chrome by changing how the browser compiles JavaScript to native code.
The web standards body W3C has published a draft specification for an API to allow web apps to use NFC-enabled hardware in mobile devices.
Firefox creator Mozilla release benchmarks showing that asm.js, its performance-optimised subset of JavaScript, can deliver performance only 1.5x slower than code compiled to run natively.
PayPal reveals that writing server-side software in node.js rather than Java is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying web development.