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2 unusual facts about Software developer


IntelePeer

In September 2008, IntelePeer launched its AppWorx communications-enabling application development environment offering an application programming interface (API) based on Web standards like PHP and REST to help service providers and application developers to voice-enable their applications.

Software developer

Some of the notable software people include Peter Norton (developer of Norton Utilities), Richard Garriott (Ultima-series creator), and Philippe Kahn (Borland key founder), all of whom started as entrepreneurial individual or small-team software developers.


Glenn Wichman

Glenn R. Wichman (born in 1960 in Bay City, Michigan) is a software developer who is best known as one of the original authors of the computer game Rogue, along with Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Jon Lane.

Lyle Rains

Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game Asteroids.

Micro ISV

A micro ISV (abbr. mISV or μISV), a term coined by Eric Sink, is an independent software vendor with fewer than 10 or even just one software developer.

Ratpoison

Mark Pilgrim, a frequent user, praised it for being "minimalist" and "configurable".

Recon Instruments

At Google I/O 2012, Recon Instruments announced the launch of their Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables software developers, for the first time, to build apps that can be downloaded to Recon's HUDs, designed to personalize the user's experience.

Rémy Card

Rémy Card is a French software developer who is noted for his contributions to the Linux kernel.

Scott Werndorfer

Scott Werndorfer (born August 1, 1980) is the co-founder and head developer of Cerulean Studios, a company responsible for creating Trillian, a popular instant messaging client.


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Bank Street Writer

It was designed in 1981 by a team of educators at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, software developer Franklin E. Smith, and programmers at Intentional Educations in Watertown, MA.

Campcaster

The concept was further developed by Ákos Maróy, a software developer and then-member of Tilos Radio, Robert Klajn, a radio producer at Radio B92, and Douglas Arellanes and Sava Tatić from the Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF).

Data Access Language

The PrimeBase division of German software developer SNAP Innovation GmbH continues to support DAL in their cross platform SQL database server (originally known as P.INK SQL).

Eric Jerome Dickey

Dickey was employed in the aerospace industry working at Rockwell International, ASSD division, as a software developer, before deciding that he wanted to pursue acting and stand-up comedy, and began the local and national comedy circuit.

Eric Muller

Erik Möller, German freelance journalist, software developer and author

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is a video game based on the Flash cartoon series Happy Tree Friends developed by independent software developer Stainless Games and published by Sega.

Hellbanning

Software developer and Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood describes a theoretical use of hellbanning for Stack Overflow on his programming blog Coding Horror, explaining that when none of the hellbanned user's posts receives a response, he or she will be likely to become bored or frustrated and leave the site.

Jaap Schekkerman

From 1985 to 1989 he managed the IT Research & Development department of the insurance company Centraal Beheer, and in 1989 became IT consultant at the Dutch Software developer RAET.

Jack Dangermond

Today Esri is the largest GIS software developer in the world and its flagship product, ArcGIS, traces its heritage to Dangermond's initial efforts in developing ARC/INFO.

JediMUD

Due to sharing of the same software developer, Jeremy Elson, JediMUD has often been tightly tied to the evolution of the popular MUD code-base, CircleMUD.

Jerrold Schwaber

His brother, Ken Schwaber, is a software developer involved in the invention the Scrum development process.

Joyce Maynard

Software developer Peter Norton bought the letters for $156,500 and announced his intention to return them to Salinger.

Ken Manheimer

Ken Manheimer has been a prominent software developer of Zope and GNU Mailman who worked for NIST, CNRI, Digital Creations and Zope Corporation.

Ken Olisa

He was also a Director (and Chair of the Remuneration Committee) of Canada's largest independent software developer, Open Text Corporation.

Kingsoft Internet Security

Kingsoft Internet Security, developed by Zhuhai based Chinese software developer Kingsoft, is an antivirus software which protects against viruses, Trojans, worms and other types of threats.

Knopper

Klaus Knopper (born 1968), a German electrical engineer and free software developer

Larry R. Williams

Williams joined forces with long-time friend— trader and software developer Louis B. Mendelsohn — to create a comprehensive new line-up of trading indicators, within the Vantage Point software.

Marco Palladino

Marco Palladino (born September 12, 1988) is a Serbian-Italian inventor, software developer and internet entrepreneur, best known for co-founding Mashape, the marketplace for Cloud APIs.

Marlin Eller

Marlin Eller is an American programmer who was a manager and a software developer at Microsoft Corporation from 1982–1995, and he was development lead for the Graphics Device Interface of Windows 1.0 and also for Pen Windows.

Master of Monsters

Master of Monsters is a turn-based strategy game created by Japanese software developer System Soft (now System Soft Alpha) for the MSX and NEC PC8801 later ported to a variety of consoles and PCs including the PC Engine, NEC PC9801, Sega Mega Drive (Genesis), Sega Saturn and PlayStation.

Mavis Beacon

Mavis's name comes from a combination of Mavis Staples (one of the software developer's favorite singers) and the word beacon (an allusion to her role as a guide to typing).

Michael Kölling

Michael Kölling is a professor and software developer with the School of Computing at the University of Kent.

Mindstorm

Mindstorm Studios, a computer video game developer and software developer company

Nessy Tales

Nessy Tales is a series of animated reading books narrated by the comedian Bill Bailey and published by the British educational software developer Net Educational Systems, in conjunction with the Bristol Dyslexia Centre, a registered charity.

Paul G. Comba

He then joined IBM as a software developer, and later as a member of the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center.

Pito

Pito Salas, a Curacaoan-American Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software developer

Saffron Technology

James Fleming, Chief Software Engineer, former software developer at IBM Knowledge Management and Intelligent Agent Center, Raleigh, NC.

Shklar

Leon Shklar, software developer and an author on the subject of web development

Sol Katz

Sol Katz (August 3, 1947 – April 23, 1999) was an American software developer who pioneered geospatial computer software (a sub-category of GIS) and left behind a large body of work in the form of computer applications and format specifications while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

TARGIT Business Intelligence

TARGIT A/S is a Danish business intelligence and analytics software developer based in Hjørring, Denmark, with American subsidiary TARGIT US Inc., based in Tampa Bay and Boston.

Tenzing Communications

Tenzing Communications of Seattle was founded in 1999 by software developer Simon "Symonty" Gresham, with the backing of Airbus.

Tom Truscott

Today, Truscott works on tools that analyze software as a software developer for the SAS Institute.

Tso

Theodore Ts'o, a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel

Who Is To Blame?

Who Is To Blame is a utility that processes the warnings/errors from Microsoft Visual Studio and then uses the Subversion (SVN) Blame tool to generate a report of which software developer added/amended the line causing the warning/error.