ilamont/programming

From the page: "MySpace will open the doors of its developer Web site on Tuesday and make available there the necessary tools to build applications for the world's most popular social-networking site.

Developers will have about one month to familiarize themselves with the development tools and create and test applications before MySpace begins letting its members install them early in March."

From the page: "Google has unveiled a new API that it hopes will make data created by users of social networks portable.

The Social Graph API makes information about the connections people have with each other on different Web sites easily available, said Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer. Once the data is available, developers can solve the problem of requiring users to search for and add friends to new social applications and sites every time they join them, noted Fitzpatrick in a blog post."

From the page: "What kind of trophies do they give to programming champions? Jiazhi Wu would know. As an undergrad at Zhejiang University in China, Wu won a record 39 out of 45 programming contests held by TopCoder Inc., a Glastonbury, Conn.-based software development and recruiting firm. Winning those global contests â€" which generate actual software that TopCoder turns around and sells to its corporate customers â€" also won Wu a cool $155,000. "

From the page: ""You sound great singing in the shower, but there's a rock star inside you!" So read the first line of a job posting placed by Viget Labs in December, in its attempt to fill a junior-level position for a Ruby on Rails "would-be rock star programmer.""

From the page: "Microsoft Corp. has canceled its annual conference for developers of mobile and embedded devices and applications, and instead is steering would-be attendees toward two alternative shows -- one run by the software vendor, the other by a third party."

From the page: "Programming is hard -- always has been, always will be. No matter how experienced you are, or what kind of tools you use, there are always problems that make you gnash your teeth and think about getting an MBA or becoming a manager.

Modern psychology says we shouldn't dwell on negatives, but I'm going to intentionally bring up three gnarly problems that we've all had to deal with. Why? It's not that I'm masochistic. I think there's a search-oriented approach that will reduce the pain, without any medical side effects."