Photos: Eastern Europe dominates Google Code Jam
News Programmers from across Europe went head to head in Dublin at Google’s first ever Code Jam Europe event this week, competing for a share of a €30,000 prize fund. Google uses the Code Jam competition as a way of attracting engineering talent to its...
[June 30, 2006, 17:05]
Google code jam
Talkback I did the GCJ last year. In foreign countries, it is also an English contest! All problems are written in English and you waste a lot of precious time if you don't understand quickly and accurately the problem statement.there are 3 problems to be...
[August 17, 2007, 13:49]
Google gets Code Jamming in the UK
News The search engine company is holding its Code Jam contest here for the first time, after three successful years in the US. Code Jam Europe launched on Tuesday, and is open to all residents of the EU and some other countries.
[May 3, 2006, 18:00]
The UK's real missing skill: Imagination
Leader Not so it seems with Google, which last week brought its successful Code Jam programming competition/recruitment drive to Europe. Interestingly, the vast majority of the Code Jam finalists were from Eastern Europe, with the top three winners...
[July 6, 2006, 13:10]
Programming prizes benefit everyone
Leader After successful stints in America and India, Code Jam has finally reached us old world Europeans. Compared with these, Code Jam is more like Robot Wars -- and lots of people are uncomfortable with that.
[May 3, 2006, 16:30]
D9 - Advanced Dialler
Downloads D9 is an open-source, freeware advanced dialler for Windows Mobile Phone Edition devices, such as the i-mate JAM. Every image can be replaced with your own creation.Please visit the D9 homepage for further information, support and the source code...
[March 17, 2003, 6:00]
Drowning in wireless spaghetti
News In wartime and other hostile environments, the advantages of this idea is that without the right sequence or code a station is practically impossible to monitor or jam: in the civilian world, the system makes very efficient use of a band and is...
[November 1, 2005, 12:00]
Are Easter eggs bloatware?
News This obtained by forcing a real printer jam while printing, then issuing a second print command. Easter eggs -- hidden code in software applications -- have been around almost as long as the four-minute warning, and they now seem to be multiplying.
[March 31, 2002, 7:31]
Microsoft brews up a Java-like language
News Gardner, who said he had yet to be briefed by Microsoft on C#, added that the new language may allow Microsoft to "get out of the Java jam that they've been in for some time. Company officials have said the language has no relationship to the Java...
[June 27, 2000, 8:34]
Boldly Googling into the future
News And when other tech companies are announcing job cuts, Google continues to swell staff numbers with computer science PhD's, currently totalling 60, through schemes such as its Code Jam competition. Google is hiring and running programs like the...
[September 30, 2003, 16:20]
Google and Amazon tussle for talent
News It recently established Code Jam 2003, a programming contest in which the top contestant wins $10,000 (£6,025) and a potential job at Google. Google and Amazon.com are fighting for top computer scientists on Google's home turf: search results.
[September 29, 2003, 10:35]
Lastminute.com: Forget Google - we're the innovators
News Would you consider doing something like Google does in the US with its Code-Jam programming contest? Chip Steinmetz is on a mission. While US dot-coms such as Google, Amazon and eBay have been praised for their technical innovation, UK Web survivor...
[March 2, 2004, 9:55]
Wireless specs are on collision course
News When a Bluetooth connection collides with a wireless LAN connection, either or both connections can jam, resulting in a transmission error. At Comdex in Las Vegas, an entire pavilion of vendors will be showing products based on Bluetooth, the code...
[November 15, 1999, 12:57]
Hyper-warped-visor-consolidation Confabulation
Blog Grab a bunch of buzzwords jam them together in questions that sound more like pick one from column A and 2 from column B and poof you have a tech-geek survey. If the code is buggy, it stays buggy on the VM.
[July 8, 2008, 2:38]
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection: a first look review
Reviews The Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is made for professionals who need a jam-packed toolbox for multimedia content creation. We've been tinkering with rough drafts of CS4 applications, and will report back with rated reviews once we put...
[September 23, 2008, 10:41]
Macromedia Studio 8 review
Reviews But Flash 8 offers the most-intriguing new toys, such as the ability to lay video on top of video so that you can make, for example, a superhero fly above a traffic jam. To minimise the amount of code wrangling, Dreamweaver now nests and colour...
[October 7, 2005, 0:00]
