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FullCodePress Interview: Tim Connor, New Zealand Team

by Craig Buckler

Craig interviews Tim Connor, the back-end coder for the winning FullCodePress 2009 New Zealand team. How did he prepare and why did they choose a relatively unknown Rails-based CMS?

 

FullCodePress Interview: Elle Meredith, Australian Team

by Craig Buckler

Craig interviews Elle Meredith, the XHTML/CSS coder for the FullCodePress 2009 Australian team. How did she prepare and cope without sleep for over 24 hours?

 

FullCodePress: An Interview with Wendy White of Team Australia

by Alyssa Gregory

Alyssa interviews Wendy White, Project Manager for Team Australia, about her experience with FullCodePress last month. From the flu, to sticky notes, to her martial arts finesse, Wendy shares all of the details of the competition.

 

What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 2: Performance)

by Craig Buckler

In the second part of Craig’s Opera 10 preview, he examines the browser’s performance and Opera Turbo — a killer feature that can make page downloading 4 times faster.

 

What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 1)

by Craig Buckler

Opera 10 is now available as a beta download. In the first part of Craig’s preview, he looks at the interface, new features, standards support and developer tools.

 

Microsoft Premieres Their Bing Television Commercial

by Craig Buckler

Microsoft is showing Bing television advertisements in the US as part of their massive publicity campaign. Will it persuade you to try the new search engine?

 

Joe Clark’s Cranky About Copyright

by Raena Jackson Armitage

As creative types, we should all be concerned with copyright. As Raena explains, Joe Clark’s new project promises to shake up the debate—and in an interesting twist, it will be funded by micropatronage.

 

Passengers Could be Stranded as AppJet Flies Off

by Craig Buckler

AppJet, the free server-side JavaScript hosting system, is to be discontinued. How will this announcement affect existing developers and the future of online development platforms?

 

Microsoft vs Google: Bing It On

by Craig Buckler

Another week, another new and “revolutionary” search engine. Has Microsoft’s Bing.com got what it takes? Should Google be concerned?

 

DZone: News Aggregator and Free Cheat Sheets for Developers

by Mihaela Lica

DZone was launched three years ago this week as a response to Digg, delicious and other social networks, to better serve the needs of developers. Mihaela spoke to president, Rick Ross, about the site’s community and the free cheat sheets that they’ve made available for download.

 

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