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unusual facts about programmers



2KA

The new frequency, 1476 kHz, enabled programmers to extend the audience reach to Penrith, and draw revenue from businesses in the area.

All I See

If radio programmers could find room on their playlists for Natasha Bedingfield's market-pandering "Love Like This," then surely they can find space for "All I See."

Amiga Games Database

While most of the reviews are written by fans, there are a few "celebrity reviews" written by noted games programmers such as Peter Molyneux or Dino Dini.

Antoinette LaFarge

Over the years she has worked with performer-director Kim Weild, sound artist Cuca Esteves, writer Aida Croal, and many other theater artists, performers, and programmers.

Austrumi Linux

It was created, and is currently being maintained by, a group of programmers from Latgale region of Latvia.

Authoring software

Authoring system, software made so non-programmers can produce content, usually for educational use

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.

Blook

The first printed blook was User Interface Design for Programmers, by Joel Spolsky, published by Apress on June 26, 2001, based on his blog Joel on Software.

Cemetech

In 2012, Cemetech's founder published a book called "Programming the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus" which was published by Manning Publications, an introductory programming book inspired by his experiences working with beginner programmers at Cemetech.

Common Component Architecture

Features of the Common Component Architecture that distinguish it from commercial component standards (Component Object Model, CORBA, Enterprise Java Beans) include support for FORTRAN programmers, multi-dimensional data arrays, exotic hardware and operating systems, and a variety of network data transports not typically suited for wide area networks.

Cowboy coding

Code monkey, a pejorative term for programmers who are employed to write simple or repetitive code

CSharpBuilder

C#Builder, from Borland Software Corporation, is a computer program that allows programmers to create Microsoft Windows and Web applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework using the programming language C#.

Cyberjack

During the development of Cyberjack the majority of the programmers moved to a new office in Muizenberg, a beach town near Cape Town.

Design By Numbers

Led by John Maeda and his students they created software aimed at allowing designers, artists and other non-programmers to easily start computer programming.

EBCDIC

Open-source-software advocate and hacker Eric S. Raymond writes in his Jargon File that EBCDIC was almost universally loathed by early hackers and programmers because of its multitude of different versions, none of which resembled the other versions, and that IBM produced it in direct competition with the already-established ASCII.

Effective Perl Programming

Effective Perl Programming, sometimes known as the Shiny Ball Book by Perl programmers, is an intermediate to advanced text by Joseph N. Hall covering the Perl programming language.

En Karusell

The Playboy Records U.S. release was credited to "Bjorn & Benny (with Svenska Flicka)" and according to ABBA's manager Stig Anderson, the single could have been a much bigger American hit if not for the limited distribution resources of the label that was unable to meet the demand from retailers and radio programmers.

F-1 Hero MD

Autopolis, Fuji Speedway, an oval training course, and a treacherous road course originally designed by the programmers of the video game used in the Japanese version.

Familiar Linux

In May 2000, Alexander Guy took a kernel that had been worked on by Compaq programmers, built a complete Linux distribution around it, and released the first version of Familiar (v0.1).

Faze FM

The Kiss 102/105 dance music format was the brainchild of two highly-experienced UK radio programmers, Mike Gray and Guy Hornsby, who first worked together at the original BBC Radio London where they produced the station's leading DJ presenters Robbie Vincent and Tony Blackburn.

FitDay

Internet Brands acquired FitDay in 2008, though the original programmers continue to lead development of the site.

Fog Creek Software

It featured angled walls to allow programmers a window next to their computer monitor to reduce eye strain.

Goto

Some programmers, such as Linux Kernel designer and coder Linus Torvalds or software engineer and book author Steve McConnell, also object to Dijkstra's point of view, stating that GOTOs can be a useful language feature, improving program speed, size and code clearness, but only when used in a sensible way by a comparably sensible programmer.

GrapeCity

One of the developer tools that GrapeCity localized for Japanese programmers was ActiveReports from Data Dynamics.

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

The film includes footage of a hacker conference, and interviews with some of the programmers that created the personal computer revolution, including Bill Atkinson, Bill Budge, Doug Carlston, John Draper, Andrew Fluegelman, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Greenblatt, Andy Hertzfeld, David Hughes, Susan Kare, Richard Stallman, Bob Wallace, Robert Woodhead, Steve Wozniak, and others.

HIP Video Promo

The HIP Video Promo servicing and promotional network includes close to 100 programmers and programming outlets including MTV, Fuse, VH1, BET, Much Music, and Pitchfork.

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

It was created in Flash by eight independent international teams of animators, illustrators, musicians, programmers, actors etc. from all around the world (US, France, UK, Germany, Russia, Australia, Croatia), whose work was coordinated on the Internet.

J. D. Frazer

It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet service provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles.

JCSP

Although CSP is a mathematical system, JCSP does not require in-depth mathematical skill, allowing instead that programmers can achieve well-behaved software just by following simple rules.

Jean E. Sammet

The meeting involved 25 engineers, programmers, marketing representatives, and salesmen who were involved with the UNIVAC, as well as representatives from users such as General Electric, Arthur Andersen, and the U.S. Census.

Jesse Sheidlower

Although not a computer programmer by training, Sheidlower introduced Perl to the North American offices of Oxford University Press and developed tools for data manipulation when no programmers were available.

Lifeboat Associates

In May 1995, Voyager Software Corp. changed its name to "Programmers Paradise, Inc." and consolidated its U.S. catalog and software publishing operations in a new subsidiary, Programmers Paradise Catalogs, Inc. and its wholesale distribution operations in a new subsidiary, Lifeboat Distribution, Inc.

Mallard BASIC

Graphics could be implemented by loading the GSX extension to CP/M, but this was cumbersome for BASIC programmers.

MicroBlaze

Powered by the GNU toolchain (GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Debugger), the SDK enables programmers to write, compile, and debug C/C++ applications for their embedded system.

Miss Digital World

The contest is aimed at digital artists, advertising agencies, cinema production companies and video game programmers who have created virtual models similar to Lara Croft.

Pardon Me

Initial radio reception was lukewarm, so Boyd and guitarist Mike Einziger decided to perform the song acoustically at several radio stations that had been playing the song, including KROQ-FM, and this acoustic version grabbed the attention of radio programmers and listeners.

Paul H. Cress

He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR (WATerloo FORtran), for the IBM System/360 family of computers.

People Need Love

The Playboy Records U.S. release was credited to "Bjorn & Benny (with Svenska Flicka)", and according to ABBA's manager Stig Anderson, could have been a much bigger American hit, if not for the limited distribution resources of the label that was unable to meet the demand from retailers and radio programmers.

Programming productivity

As a result, large organizations had enormous data processing staffs, with hundreds or thousands of programmers working in assembly language, COBOL, JOVIAL, Ada, or other tools of the day.

Rebecca Hargrave Malamud

In 1996, she designed the Internet 1996 World Exposition (website, book and CD-rom) with Carl Malamud, working remotely from her office in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a team of artists, writers, programmers and photographers around the globe.

Richard P. Gabriel

He eventually began working for Lawrence Livermore National Labs, where he recruited a number of the researchers and programmers for a company he founded in 1984 (and would leave in 1992), and would survive until 1994, Lucid, Incorporated.

Robotino

More experienced programmers may find it useful that the robot can also be programmed in C, C++, Java, .NET, Matlab, Simulink, Labview and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.

Ruth Teitelbaum

Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman) (1924 – 1986, Dallas) was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

Sierra Entertainment

While working to finish The Black Cauldron, programmers Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy began to plan for an adventure game of their own.

Tyron Montgomery

Uncommonly but successfully X-Plosive was operated as a unique teleworking experiment: The twenty web designers and programmers of the network were scattered across the globe and actually never met in person.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Werdna and Trebor are the names of the original programmers (Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert J. Woodhead) spelled backwards.


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