DOJ charges two programmers with aiding Madoff scheme
Two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were arrested Friday and charged in connection with the multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme run by their former boss.
Two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities were arrested Friday and charged in connection with the multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme run by their former boss.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is looking for tax and superannuation software developers to join a consultative group. According to the ATO, the term will soon expire for current members of the Software Developers Consultative Group (SDCG), and the organisation is interested in working with a new slew of developers.
Google's Go could improve on existing programming languages by simplifying development without sacrificing application performance, but it will likely take years for Go to attain an established position that will allow it to have a noticeable impact.
Microsoft will release on Tuesday guidelines for developers building online applications and for those utilizing the Agile code-development process.
Onlookers say that Google is in charge of Android development, despite pitching the software as a community project. But experts say that could be the only way Google can ensure that the software is actually released.
Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications.
It has been a tough 12 months for the Australian game development industry and, as the Australian dollar reaches parity against the US currency, consolidation in the market looks set to continue.
PHP 6, a planned major upgrade to the popular open source dynamic language for Web applications, will feature internationalization capabilities via Unicode support, key developers of the language said Wednesday.
<i>Computerworld</i> is undertaking a series of investigations into interesting programming languages. This time around we speak with Arduino's Tom Igoe.
PayPal has announced a developer competition at Web Directions South in Sydney, and up for grabs is a trip to the PayPal conference in San Francisco next month.
Atlassian this week launched its Jira 4 issue tracker for software development projects, featuring a refreshed UI, activity streams, search, and OpenSocial gadget integration.
Phoenix Technologies is doubling the number of staff at its Indian development center to 120 in the next six months, and also adding new functions such as product architecture and management, the company said on Friday.
The overall number of defects in open-source projects is dropping, a new study by vendor Coverity has found.
The New South Wales Government is calling on Web developers with the launch of its new apps4nsw competition.