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Curse of the Cowboy Coders
Blog There’s very often a sense of the ‘prima donna’ attitude among developers where they feel that one or two individuals in a coding team or project are carrying along eight or nine other ‘cowboy coders’, who are simply there to make up the numbers.
[August 7, 2007, 14:49]
The downturn - good for open source, not so good for coders
Blog Comment One would like to think that out of work open source coders and not quite in work yet hobbyist developers alike might want to work on modules that might find some place in the business-facing side of the software spectrum.but perhaps it is too...
[April 15, 2009, 8:38]
The downturn - good for open source, not so good for coders
Blog One sticking point is that the projects coders tend to do in their spare time are ones that scratch a personal itch, rather than ones that solve a particular business problem. Open source is certainly better value for money longer term, and costs...
[April 14, 2009, 15:31]
Linux coders reject GPLv3
News Out of 29 kernel coders, 28 rated GPL version 3 as worse than the current GPL version 2, according to results of a survey released Friday. More than two dozen of the most prolific Linux kernel programmers dislike a proposed update to the General...
[September 26, 2006, 9:35]
Open source coders aren't lazy enough
Blog Sharing code is a natural and useful activity for developers, whether that's just amongst coders at one organisation, or with every other user of the language you're writing in. This isn't making the best of what open source has to offer coders or...
[April 24, 2009, 16:10]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Comment Magic Software Enterprises UK Ltd would like to confirm that the RIA competition that is currently advertised on our website is a genuine competition to encourage developers & "would be " developers to have a go at developing a Rich Internet...
[April 6, 2009, 19:10]
Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders
Talkback This is one of the problems with open source. Microsoft developers probably have conversations like this all the time, but they are generally kept private (though occassionally leaked by disgruntled employees!
[November 14, 2005, 10:26]
Curse of the Cowboy Coders
Blog Comment Things are getting better but there is still a lot of poor IT management out there and cowboy managers are a lot more dangerous than cowboy coders. What you tend to find is that it's not necessarily the outspoken developers who are the ones...
[August 7, 2007, 18:41]
Coders worried by DRM chip in Apple's Intel box
Talkback The sooner apple get off their arses and sell their OS as an off the shelf product that anyone can install on any machine (intel based) the sooner they will start making money and eating into the microsoft monopoly!
[August 9, 2005, 14:46]
Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders
Talkback I believe the summary given to the article, with Linus laughing at the face of developers, is way out of context and it will be misleading to the readers. Perhaps the intention of the author was to provoke a response, similar to what I do now.
[November 11, 2005, 16:09]
Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders
Talkback >>Perhaps the intention of the author was to provoke a response, similar to what I do now. Agreed, but ZDNet knows Linux zealot/hater flamewars are some of the greatest ad revenue generators on the internet, and they milk that for all they can.
[November 11, 2005, 20:44]
Coders worried by DRM chip in Apple's Intel box
Talkback You could be right : a lot of people install Windows instead of Linux because "it's easier". Everyone know that MacOS is more user-friendly than anything Micro$oft has launched yet.
[September 20, 2005, 17:22]
Apache encourages female coders
Talkback Wow. And I only needed /one/ woman. Thanks.bjd
[August 23, 2005, 0:07]
Coders 'have support concerns' over open source
Talkback .but open source/free softwares have nothing against commercial "support" or accountability. Even debian can be made accountable by consultants , which are available from the home page . If you are talking about feodora or say cvs trunk of X.org...
[January 20, 2005, 11:13]
Intel tools on the way for Mac coders
News Intel on Tuesday said that it plans later this year to offer test versions of software tools aimed at allowing Mac developers to improve the performance of programs that run on its chips. The software maker said that sometime later this year it...
[August 24, 2005, 9:45]
Bounty for Vista coders who squish bugs at home
Talkback DTS 3v. Done), SCSI for sytem x86 (x64) Boot Registery acclleration multi users c.o.g.dinner for one at Aldente' ala Carte and 3x NEC. Sixty four bits extandables over Vista "Priceless".
[May 15, 2006, 10:04]
Bounty for Vista coders who squish bugs at home
Talkback Cracking Idea from an amazing company. Why waste time at work creating bug free code when you can sort the bugs at home and earn extra.
[May 15, 2006, 11:56]
Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser
Blog Comment Best to book your ticket to avoid disappointment. I'll be rewriting the schedule this week and posting it to the website now that I have Phil's title and abstract. Tickets are available from http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/index.rhtm/130872...
[September 30, 2009, 9:16]
Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser
Blog Comment Ack, you spelled Phil's name wrong! It's spelled with two N's. Anyway, thanks so much for the coverage!
[September 28, 2009, 12:46]
Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser
Blog Comment Apologies - typo now corrected.
[September 28, 2009, 12:59]
