Neowin News Feed for: Coders

Coders, Search For Code With Google Code Search

Steven Parker — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:22:36 +0000

Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with Google Code Search. Obviously, it only searches "publicly accessible source code" but there is plenty of that available. Specifically,... Read more...

Microsoft's Linux Guru Woos Coders with Freebies

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:38:12 +0000

As Microsoft continues to try and convince its enterprise customers and the open-software community that it is committed to interoperability and working with them, Bill Hilf, its director of platform technology, gave a session at... Read more...

Sun tools aimed at Microsoft coders

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:48:15 +0000

Sun Microsystems will describe on Wednesday new software designed to make its Java programming tools more popular with smaller businesses. With "Rave," Sun is trying to match the speed with which programmers... Read more...

Microsoft coders get a bug-catcher

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:36:30 +0000

Microsoft developers now have a new tool to help them catch security bugs in their own code. The software giant plans to announce on Monday that a plug-in created by security firm Sanctum, scheduled for... Read more...

Female virus writer attacks her fellow coders

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:23:58 +0000

Thanks to caster316 for posting this in the BPN. Could this be the emergence of a new form of cyber wars, replacing enemies' viruses? Sophos experts have advised customers about a new email-aware... Read more...

Google offers cash to creative coders

Fri, 08 Feb 2002 14:01:32 +0000

Step right up, programmers and hex-slingers: Google's got USUS$10,000 for the most creative coder among you. The geeks'-choice search engine is sponsoring its "First Annual Google Programming Contest," offering US$10,000 to the person or... Read more...