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Game Developers Turn To Hollywood
News With a film studio in its stable, Fox already has titles that have a mass-market recognition and are likely to have more appeal to casual gamers, according to Angela Edwards Emery, director of communications.
[May 15, 2000, 14:15]
Vendors, Not Developers, To Blame For Poor Code
Talkback As a software developer, I can say that I am forced to produce code according to my employer wishes. When a decision is made to deliver "buggy" code and fix it later, no amount of rasing red flags can change it.
[October 31, 2005, 17:53]
Developers Asked To Speak Out On Web Standards
News Web developers are being called on for feedback, after the release of a speech recognition grammar specification from the World Wide Web Consortium. Share your experience with others on the Developers Forum.
[June 28, 2002, 15:54]
Microsoft Asks Web Developers To 'bet On Us'
News Microsoft asked software developers to "bet on us" as it began making test versions available of Internet Explorer 8, an upgraded version of the main software used to browse the web. I know today that you have many amazing technology choices...
[March 6, 2008, 7:43]
Nokia Cosies Up To Developers
News Nokia is changing the way it deals with software developers, in what is widely seen as an effort to stave off a growing challenge from Microsoft. The world's largest handset maker will soon introduce "tiering," a process by which developers get...
[January 16, 2004, 7:20]
Embarcadero Aims To Attract Eclipse SQL Developers
News Embarcadero hopes to attract developers not traditionally used to writing SQL code to its latest tool, which it said features a rich SQL integrated development environment with code-completion, real-time error-checking, code-formatting and object...
[March 18, 2008, 16:46]
Microsoft.Net To Woo Developers In US
News If developers fail to buy into Microsoft's next-generation vision, the company's plan to yet again reinvent itself around the Internet will fall flat. Over the past couple of weeks, Microsoft took the wraps off some of the .Net elements of interest...
[July 11, 2000, 12:15]
MS To Palm Developers: Bill G. Wants You!
News According to Suwanjindar, the developer relations team has not yet determined the number of developers for the Pocket PC platform, but "Pocket PC is running a flavor of Windows which has more than 5 million developers already, who are familiar...
[December 8, 2000, 7:55]
Java Developers Indifferent To Open Source Java
News The majority of Java developers that Builder UK spoke to at the JavaOne conference on Tuesday were not concerned whether or not Sun made its implementation of Java available under an open source licence.
[June 30, 2005, 17:40]
ICQ Reaches Out To Developers
News By publishing open APIs for developers, ICQ hopes to turn its instant messenger into an application platform, sources said -- a risky path that was also attempted and later abandoned by AOL's Nullsoft division with its Winamp multimedia player.
[April 19, 2004, 16:45]
OpenOffice Developers Clear Visual Studio Licensing Hurdle
News According to the Microsoft Web site, developers may wish to upgrade to Visual Studio as it "includes many additional tools and features for C++ developers, including a professional debugger and code editor.
[February 14, 2005, 12:20]
Open Source Gets Boost From The Cost-conscious
News Usage of MySQL for developing applications rose 30 percent over the past year, while usage of Microsoft's SQL Server and Access databases increased 6 percent, according to the survey of 550 developers conducted last month.
[January 5, 2004, 15:40]
Linux Goes Live On Gentoo CD Release
News Gianelloni said that previously the AMD64 and x86 platforms had both the 2.4 and 2.6 versions of the Linux kernel, but Gentoo developers decided to fully switch to the 2.6 kernel as it has now stabilised, and tends to have more stable and up-to...
[November 25, 2004, 10:50]
Debian Release May Slip To March
News Some developers have been unhappy about payments being made to developers and, according to Barth, have slowed down their work. Now Steve Langasek, one of the two developers working on releasing Etch, has revealed a more accurate timescale.
[February 7, 2007, 8:40]
Microsoft Sounds Off Over Bulgaria Investment
News Bulgarian developers are valued within the European Union, according to Muehlfelt, for "the energy and flexibility they bring to the EU". We now have 200 Bulgarian developers who make a great contribution," he said.
[March 9, 2007, 17:04]
BEA Aims To Win Over Java Developers
News With the associated programming tool, WebLogic Workshop, BEA is giving developers a single tool to create applications for each of its server products. As previously reported, Workshop 8.1 will allow developers to use a relatively easy XML-based...
[March 6, 2003, 11:26]
Motorola Takes Linux Into The Mobile Mainstream
News In terms of the cost factor and (application) modifications, Linux allows a lot more (mobile phone) users and developers to be involved. Chee added that with initiatives like Eclipse in support of Linux, manufacturers, mobile-software developers...
[July 31, 2006, 12:35]
Standalone IE 6 Closer To Public Beta
News Microsoft developers had been hoping to release Windows XP Beta 2 to testers by mid- or late February. IE 6 will go head-to-head with AOL Time Warner's Netscape 6 -- a product released by the America Online subsidiary last fall and criticised by...
[February 28, 2001, 10:02]
Incoming! Newest Mac OS X Beta
News According to sources, the words that appear on ads for next week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, are mostly true. Third-party developers (such as Epson, Canon, Hewlett Packard, etc.will have to create new printer...
[May 10, 2000, 8:59]
Microsoft Hires Gentoo Linux Founder
News Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular Linux distribution to educate its in-house developers about open source. The drawback of an open source community project like Gentoo, no matter how technologically advanced and powerful...
[June 16, 2005, 10:55]
