Hmm, producing “unmaintainable code” is apparently one way of retaining your job… if you subscribe to the line of thinking that no manager in their right mind would wish your code upon anyone else.
To foil the maintenance programmer, you have to understand how he thinks. He has your giant program. He has no time to [...]

Social Innovation Camp is like a BarCamp, but with a difference. It pits web designers and developers against various social issues, and gives them 48 hours to produce a solution.
Not only does the social web enable individuals to create things for themselves, but as increasing numbers of people use the web in this way, the [...]

MySpace to further open site to outside developers.
It seems struggling social network MySpace has determined that allowing the development of applications, which are all the rage (or mostly all the rage) at arch rival Facebook, is the way to boost its flagging fortunes.
By creating a formal developers’ program, MySpace plans to give programmers “deeper access” [...]

How To Build A Facebook Application.
What the world needs now is a couple of useful Facebook applications (if that isn’t an oxymoron), so if you’re up to the task Gareth Rushgrove has written a “how-to” article just for you.
We’re going to jump straight in to a full-blown application rather than start with a simple, but [...]