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Red Hat embraces outside programmers
News Red Hat released a new test version of its Linux operating system on Monday, along with a new development process that's designed to include outside programmers. The company also described the division of labour between it and outside programmers...
[July 23, 2003, 7:43]
Adobe to open Lightroom to developers
News Adobe released Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 on Tuesday, but bigger changes will come later when the company starts letting outside programmers add their own plug-ins to the software. As soon as we can publish the [interface] spec, I think we'll all be...
[June 27, 2007, 11:26]
SuSE seeks developers
News Novell plans to begin opening up development of one of its Linux products to outside programmers in a project called OpenSuSE, a strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell is expected to announce next week.
[August 3, 2005, 8:55]
Yahoo opens up geographic data to websites
News Yahoo is letting outside websites use information from its own catalogue of geographic information, thus allowing programmers to employ Yahoo data and services in their own applications. The Yahoo Internet Location Platform provides programmers...
[May 13, 2008, 11:11]
Fedora to get PowerPC support
News Fedora hasn't lived up to Red Hat's initial hopes, but the company is trying again to build a robust community of outside programmers to help assemble and support the package. In the posting, developer Bill Nottingham said the company might also...
[February 15, 2005, 12:05]
Sun begins open source Solaris era
News Sharing power without outside programmers will be the crucial test Sun must pass," said Quandt Analytics analyst Stacey Quandt. It released a component called DTrace in January that enabled detailed performance analysis; attracted 150 outside...
[June 14, 2005, 10:25]
Sun sets up open-source Solaris project
News The open-source project will help Sun improve ties with a developer community outside of Sun, including volunteer programmers and academics, McClain said. Through the initiative, Sun engineers, partners and other programmers will be able to...
[September 14, 2004, 11:05]
VA Linux's SourceForge forges cash
News The fact that outside programmers improve SourceForge so it works better for them helps VA's SourceForge Onsite project as well, he added. VA Linux Systems originally developed SourceForge, a Web site for open-source programmers, as a way to save...
[December 6, 2000, 11:35]
Red Hat reaches out with Fedora
News A version of Fedora that supported new 64-bit memory extensions for x86 chips first came from outside programmers, but now it's a standard part of Red Hat's Fedora releases. He's one of a handful of programmers working to create a new version of...
[January 17, 2005, 15:35]
Google fosters ties with developers
News The conference is part of a company goal to cultivate a better relationship with programmers, particularly those on the cutting edge of mashup development, a relatively new style of application development that combines information from different...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Microsoft preps Windows security scanner
News Microsoft has trained more than 9,000 of its programmers and developers in secure coding techniques since last fall, Mundie said. Programmers today are still human beings, and despite training them, it is difficult to get them to look to the future.
[February 21, 2002, 8:57]
Yahoo seeks search-ad revenue with 'Boss' project
News Yahoo already has launched a program, SearchMonkey, that lets programmers augment Yahoo's search results with richer displays of information, by adding starred reviews or addresses to restaurants listed in search results, for example.
[July 10, 2008, 8:36]
Open-source Alfresco adopts the GPL
News Alfresco, a start-up that commercialises open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public License in an effort to attract outside programmers.
[February 23, 2007, 9:22]
Has anyone thought of passing this list on to Microsoft?
Talkback Really useful for 'local' programmers. Now how about passing it on to the major supplier of vulnerabilities to the outside world?
[January 14, 2009, 15:10]
EHF (Event Handler Framework)
Downloads For C/C++ PalmOS programmers, however, that has been missing from the development environment so the programmer was responsible for event dispatching which is usually accomplished with big switch statements merged with multiple if/else conditional...
[December 18, 2001, 7:00]
Google releases final Android SDK
News A major part of the Android effort is Google's attempt to woo outside programmers into writing their own applications for Android phones, because Google hopes to bring the easier innovation of the PC market to the relatively closed mobile-phone...
[September 25, 2008, 10:51]
Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source
News The company is keeping control over the official version, though, so for now at least outside programmers will need to give Sun control over their contributions, Allen said. We think as multicore becomes more important for ordinary desktop systems...
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
Yahoo opens up address-book interface
News Through its Open Strategy, the company envisions outside programmers building web applications on Yahoo's site, Yahoo services being incorporated into outside applications and social-connection information within Yahoo being used more widely.
[June 5, 2008, 8:32]
Key Linux group faces split
News One drawback of this freedom, however, is that people with different ideas can "fork" the software into different projects that are incompatible, that dilute programmers' energy by forcing them to duplicate the same features or that require...
[March 21, 2003, 7:58]
Yahoo serves up a taste of its Open Strategy
News The demonstrations took place the day before Yahoo's Open Hack Day 2008 , in which about 300 outside programmers will see what they can do with Yahoo's technology. For mobile devices, Yahoo hopes programmers will use its Blueprint foundation, which...
[September 12, 2008, 8:51]
