Geeks Code for the Gold
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Competitors are still going at it in Athens, but this time the teams are trying to write the most elegant code. By Michelle Delio.
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Here's an interesting Howto on connecting FlickrFan to the Mac desktop. I love this stuff.  Here's a movie that demonstrates this coolest of hacks.
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Perl script that automatically searches for new episodes of your favorite TV shows and downloads the corresponding NZB files from various free sources on the internet.   This release is mostly just to update the .shows file and the README.  I was sleepy, and I stupidly said that you do not have to have the  element in your shows file.  Turns out I'm just an idiot, and you do.  I have updated the .shows file to include the proper template for most shows, which is %name%.S%season%E%episode%  Sorry about that!  I also started a code optimization run which will hopefully over time make things run faster and more efficiently.  I just picked off the low hanging fruit on this release, because I wanted to get the updated README out before too many people had problems.
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Clever concept takes old-school approach to Apple's mythical gadget. In Cult of Mac.
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Take your best shot at snagging Orcs & Elves swag in Game|Life's new contest.
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Visit Reg Hardware to try your luck Competition This year is positively packed with sensational sporting spectacles: from Aussie Rules to the Americas Cup, from Wimbledon to World Championship Athletics. So prepare yourself for a veritable wealth of viewing pleasure...â¦
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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Blog: The World of Warcraft publisher is suing a gold-selling operation in federal court, demanding that the outfit stop in-world spamming efforts.
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Nick Halstead has started up another programming competition today - this time it's a bit broader in scope and doesn't focus so much on just PHP.   I have a couple of licenses for Zend Studio Professional that I have been holding back to give away for a competition. So after writing yesterdays programming 'tips' I thought perhaps I should get my readers to submit their own tips and then give away one copy for what I think is the best 'tip' and then I will also hold a online vote for the second copy.   The basic process is to submit your favorite tip to Nick and he'll pick his favorite of the day. This happens each day and at the end of the week, there'll be a drawing for the licenses from each day's top tips.   Submit your entries via his contact form.
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Easy-peasy-sleazy: A new piece of PHP code making the malware rounds can install a phishing site on a compromised server in about two minutes.
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Let someone else supply the savings bonds and sweaters this holiday season. You&#146;ll be the hero with your gifts of new robots, arfid blockers, video games, and other tech nonessentials. Here&#146;s Globe Personal Tech columnist Mark Baard&#146;s personal wish list.
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Match your gadgets with the right software to really feel the burn. By Mathew Honan from Wired magazine.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Nick Halstead has posted the winner of the PHP programming competition - Todd Pinel:   Where do I start with my praise for ToddÃ¢ÂÂs entry? So much effort has been put into this entry its amazing. As a starting point you should first go have a look yourselves, Todd has helpfully already hosted it here. Let the praise begin..   Nick goes through the presentation of the application, the documentation provided with it, some sample code of the main portion of the app (a priorityQueue class) and the rankings that each judge gave it.   You can download your application and try it out for yourself.
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'Industry bragging rights' also up for grabs The Forum Nokia Open C Challenge, which offers $20,000 in prizes for the best application developed using Nokia's Open C libraries for Series 60 programming, along with POSIX for the Symbian bits, is now open to registrations.â¦
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In my last article I introduced the idea of the Geek Ranch. The facility will be more than just a place for geeks to write code. We are going to need a web site to promote the facility to the various audiences. All the pieces of that web site are not yet determined but we do have an initial features list.  Here it is:  read more
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Medals and money... The Association of Computing Machinery has awarded the $250,000 A.M Turing Prize to three men who created an automated way to find design errors in hardware or software.â¦