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- Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back
- CEO Steve Ballmer was asked to reprise his Monkey Boy developers-developers-developers speech, this time touting Web developers. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, developers, Web developers
- Image galleries 2008-03-11
- What makes a developer "senior"?
- Â In many industries, a "senior" level position is based mostly upon the length of time that person has been working, and maybe a standardized test or two. But what exactly defines a "senior developer"? This is something that I have been wrestling with for the last few weeks. The more...
- Tags: Developers, Career Advancement, Career
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- My Language Choice Conundrum Deepens
- At the suggestion of a zillion people and Web sites, I have finally started reading Code Complete by Steve McConnell. The book is really good, and touches on so many of the topics that I have been writing about lately and that people have been talking about in the forums....
- Tags: Application Development, Architect, Bad Programming, Code, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Development Process, Microsoft Visual Basic, Object Oriented, Perl, programmer, Programming, Software, Software Design, Software Development
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Vista success hinges on developers
- Link to the image galleryDevelopers take advantage of Vistahttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-3513_11-41717.html
- Tags: developers, microsoft, Microsoft Windows Vista, news, software, Sonja Thompson, windows, windows vista
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- Secure, Open, Convenient - Pick Two, and Forget the Other
- I have been using Windows Vista for about a week now. One thing that consistently hits me is the UAC system. Even though I am running as an admin, I keep getting asked to verify operations, often by multiple security systems for the same operation. Last night I posted a...
- Tags: Application Development, Best Practice, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Development Process, Programming, security, Software Design, Software Development
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company
- In November 2006, I reviewed version 1.0 of Spiceworks IT Desktop, and I was rather impressed with the product and the company on many levels. Today I had the opportunity to talk with Scott Abel (CEO) and Francis Sullivan (CTO) of Spiceworks. Spiceworks is a small startup located in Austin,...
- Tags: Application Development, Code, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Development Process, Interview, Programming, Rapid Ruby, Ruby, Software Design, Software Development, Spiceworks
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Commanding the Death Star
- In my previous post, I talked about the importance of good monitors to a developer. Today, I will show you a bit more about the setup that is slowly taking root in my home office, where all of my TechRepublic magic (blogs, articles, downloads, etc.) occurs!Is this picture, we have...
- Tags: Application Development, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Hardware, keyboard, Monitor, Programming, Software Design
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- My Language Choice Conundrum
- A recent TechRepublic article has sparked a fairly fierce discussion about the appropriateness of particular languages to particular tasks. What I find interesting about this is the attitude of, "well, if this is the language that I know, why shouldn't I use it?" I was raised and taught to use...
- Tags: .net, Application Development, Code Writing, Developers, Development, Java, Programming, Software Development, TechRepublic Article, Vb.net, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2005
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Short Order Programmers
- In the fifteen or so years that I have been programming, I only can distinctly remember one instance where I directly worked as a "team." I was in 10th grade, and we were working in pairs on COBOL code running on an NCR mainframe system. Since then, I have had...
- Tags: Career, Career Advancement, Code, Developers, Development, Development Process, programmer, Programming, Project Management, Software Design, Software Development
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Google's Universal Gadgets woos developers
- Developers have access to Google’s Gadgets frameworkGoogle recently announced that it’s opening up its Gadgets framework to Web developers. This will allow developers the ability to use Google’s Universal Gadgets mini applications on their own Web pages. Google is also encouraging developers to share their code with others by publishing...
- Tags: applications, developer, developers, gadgets, google, Google Gadgets, Google Inc., Google Universal Gadgets, job, news, programming, Sonja Thompson, w/o
- Discussion threads 2006-10-05
- Intel offers prize for multimedia PC
- Take Intel’s Core Processor ChallengeIntel unveils a developers contest, called the Intel Core Processor Challenge, to build the smallest, sleekest multimedia PC that features Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors with Intel’s Viiv technology. Intel will award up to $1 million in prizes to the most innovative system design.Are you up...
- Tags: core 2 duo, developers, hardware, intel, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., multimedia, news, PC, Sonja Thompson, viiv
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- Web giants lure developers
- Competition heats up for hosted computing platformsAmazon Web Services is ramping up its developer program with an expanding range of utility-computing-like services. Competition is forming among large Web services providers--Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, eBay, and established tool providers--to attract developers to create Web applications that run on their respective platforms.Which services...
- Tags: Competition, developer, hosted computing, web services, amazon, news, developers, Amazon.com Inc., Sonja Thompson, programming, Amazon Web Services, Web, Web service
- Discussion threads 2006-09-01
- Microsoft enlists developers for Live push
- Breathing life into Live productsAt the TechEd conference next week, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie will discuss Microsoft's online services initiative. Analysts say that Microsoft’s success in courting software developers--its traditional audience--to build "mash-up" applications that use Live-branded Web properties is important in helping them fend off the growing influence of...
- Tags: Live, Microsoft Corp., microsoft, news, developers, teched2006, mash-ups, mashup, Sonja Thompson, programming
- Discussion threads 2006-06-09
- Oracle exec hits out at 'patch' mentality
- Oracle exec hits out at 'patch' mentalityarticle rootDon't blame developers...One of the reason why there is so much buggy code around is that developers often do not have an input into project timelines, these are often decided by marketing people or managers who simply do not have the required knowledge...
- Tags: developer, specification, buggy code
- Discussion threads 2006-05-31
- With OS development stalled, Palm risks defections
- Reading the life-line of the PalmSexy new mobile applications, like Google Maps for Mobile, are debuting on operating systems other than Palm's, which lacks built-in support for multimedia apps and hasn't been updated in quite some time. The Palm OS still enjoys a loyal following, but it'll have to get...
- Tags: palmOne Inc., software, os, news, developers, palm, platforms, Palm Treo, Sonja Thompson, hardware, Palm Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-04-27
- Should developers anticipate as much of user needs as possible?
- Should developers anticipate as much of user needs as possible?After reading the blog Programming "how versus programming "why", I wanted to bring this topic up.For two years at my current job, I was "given" the task of developing a database system. Throughout the process of development, it became visibly...
- Tags: developer, database, software development, developers, programmers, ghost_75_24@..., programming, user interface
- Discussion threads 2006-03-30
- The best developers are built not bought
- The best developers are built not boughtarticle rootBuy versus buildThe downloadable version of this article is available here:http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-3513-6038684.htmlDoes your organization take the time and make the effort required to develop talent in house, or do they prefer to purchase software application development talent on the open market?Buy versus Build, software...
- Tags: developer
- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
- New gateway to multiple virtual worlds?
- A California start-up is launching a platform called Multiverse that will make it possible for players to move between online games without having to switch software.Multiverse may be an innovative concept, but do you think it will attract game developers who will use its platform to create new, moneymaking games?
- Tags: Games, Multiverse, game
- Discussion threads 2005-12-06
- developers get latest Microsoft database, tools
- Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 database and Visual Studio 2005 tools are now available to subscribers of its Microsoft Developer Network. In addition, Microsoft is offering a limited-time "migration pricing" program that’s meant to attract customers of competitive databases.MSDN subscribers: tell us what you think about these updates!Nice thing, that in...
- Tags: asp.net, database, developers, latest Microsoft database, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Database, programming, Sonja Thompson, sql server 2005, tool, visual studio 2005
- Discussion threads 2005-10-28
- Vacancy in Malaysia
- Dear all,I would like to invite suitable candidates to join our software development team in one of the following capacities: Project ManagerJava Team LeadJava Sr. DeveloperJava Jr. DeveloperQA Software EngineerMS DeveloperWe are
- Tags: Software development, moriah.lee@..., software
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
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