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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser
Blog Comment Must try to get to this (although it's a bit expensive). Anyone know what the scedule is? Hmm. Doesn't look as if you need to pre-book.
[September 28, 2009, 20:03]
Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser
Blog Comment Yup bloody government, and best of luck for the day, here's a quick link to there donations page.http://www.tnmoc.org/donate.aspx
[September 29, 2009, 1:20]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Comment Coding competitions. I remember them well. There is always some really neat small print in these things. Like about who owns the IP of the winning entries. This usually goes in the direction of the competition organizer who for as mentioned in...
[April 6, 2009, 9:17]
Apache encourages female coders
Talkback Wow. And I only needed /one/ woman. Thanks.bjd
[August 23, 2005, 0:07]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Comment Oh yes, IP ownership. I didn't think about that when I wrote that blog Mr 64Bitz.good point. You know what? Having seen the students who line up for the Microsoft competition; they are SO excited, that I bet they aren't thinking about it either.
[April 6, 2009, 9:36]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Comment Maybe I was a little cynical but I remember entering a number of these in my 'younger' days. In fact I remember creating an application for the optimized cutting of wood which had been posted by a company interested in this area of business.
[April 6, 2009, 10:02]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Comment Wise words sir, Wow - 35K for optimzed wood cutting software? Is this available at B&Q these days? Seriously, good "leveling" words of guidance from your good self. I do hope that students thinking about Microsoft's Imagine Cup or even hobbyists...
[April 6, 2009, 10:16]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
