programmer in development in news
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News The open source community's programmer-hours, if added up, would place it as the largest software employer in the world, the study said. This baseline notion is interesting as products like JBoss used to... [22 Apr 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News Chawdhary said: "If you are a programmer and you have some programming experience then it is a cakewalk. Martin Macmillan, business development director with ATM security specialist Level Four Software,... [04 Mar 2008]
Netscape founder says PHP beats Java
News Andreessen said: "Java is much more programmer-friendly than C or C++, or was for a few years there until they made it just as complicated. Java enjoyed great success when its inventor, Sun Microsystems, released it... [20 Oct 2005]
Tech companies outsource more development work
News Most companies outsource lower-level programming tasks that are more cost-effective to [farm out], rather than devoting an in-house programmer to such jobs. In terms of overall workload,... [30 Aug 2005]
Torvalds launches new Linux management system
News He praised it for boosting Linux programmer productivity, but almost immediately others began objecting to reliance on proprietary software. BitMover founder Larry McVoy complained about efforts in the... [21 Apr 2005]
Doctors turn to iPods and open source to cut costs
News With help from programmer and fellow radiologist Dr Antoine Rosset, he created OsiriX, an open source application, to enable radiologists to teleconference with the images on Mac desktop systems. He added that he was a... [07 Feb 2005]
Google poaches Firefox programmer
News Google has hired the lead programmer of the Firefox web browser, the newest step in the search engine powerhouse's encroachment on Microsoft's turf. Among other clues pointing to browser interest at... [26 Jan 2005]
IBM plans India jobs bonanza, say Indian officials
News The logic behind the expansion isn't hard to see - an average computer programmer in India will cost considerably less in wages than a US-based worker. IBM currently has several thousand... [12 Mar 2004]
Programmer posts hundreds of children's details online
News According to MSNBC, the data first made its way into the public domain when a programmer working on the project asked for help on the project's formatting from a coders' site called rentacoder.com and posted the database... [10 Feb 2004]
AOL takes passage to India
News Hewlett-Packard has pegged the cost of a talented programmer in India at about $20,000 a year, well below the cost of a top US tech worker. AOL's plans slipped out on its website in a 10... [22 Dec 2003]
Linux guru urges move to new kernel
News The programmer in charge of the current version 2.4 of the Linux kernel plans to quickly curtail the addition of new features in order to encourage a swift move to the upcoming 2.6... [08 Dec 2003]
Linux flaws aid hack attack
News When the programmer logged into the Klecker system, the attacker recorded his password. The Debian Project has warned that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open software... [02 Dec 2003]
Linux kernel suffers Trojan horse hack
News The changes looked like they were made by another developer, but that programmer said he hadn't submitted them, McVoy said. This never got close to the development tree," he said. The recent incident... [07 Nov 2003]
Usual suspects to dominate web services tool market
News Wayne T Kernochan, Aberdeen Group managing VP and report author, in a statement said: "Over-focus on 3GLs, standards, reusability, formalism and quick-and-dirty implementations of ebusiness functionality have led to... [17 Mar 2003]
Oracle fleshes out wireless software strategy
News For example, a programmer could build a single sales application that's accessible via a web-enabled mobile phone and a personal digital assistant. In February, Oracle will release a test version of its... [28 Jan 2003]
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