Alex Barnett highlights a really cool MSN Messenger plug-in.

Google has once again launched another Code Jam contest and registration is now open — Registration for Google Code Jam closes September 5, and the qualifying round begins on the same day.

The fourth annual coding competition presented by Google offers the top 100 programmers in the contest cash prizes.

With a title like “Why Google and Yahoo! can’t be better open source citizens” one might think that our companies were squeezing as much as possible out of the open source world and giving little back.

The Summer of Code continues at Google, which presented a midterm report on the state of the project during the recently-held OSCON 2006.

Developers thriving in the open source community have been hounding Sun Microsystems for a long time to open up the code to its widely-used Web language, Java. A surprise conference announcement last week reveals that day is coming, even if not as soon as initially thought.

This isn’t a chapter in the CVS versus Subversion debate, but a look at places online to view useful pieces of code.

One hundred and one projects covering operating systems, content management, programming languages, and other open source areas will occupy the 630 students selected to participate in Google’s Summer of Code.

MSN Video is apparently on the A-list this year at the Cannes Film Festival. They were quite quick to point out they were the “only media outlet allowed inside the ‘Da Vinci Code’ party,” and that the losers at Yahoo!, E!, and anybody else with an annoying exclamation point in their name was not there.

As part of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in France, Adobe will pair student filmmakers with professionals to create documentaries on their Cannes experiences.

Sony Pictures enjoyed serious link love when Google UK dropped a link to them at the bottom of its search result pages.

Google’s Code Jam Europe wants to find the best and brightest among European Java and C programmers, but its scheduling leaves something to be desired.

Last week I had a great meeting with the guy (David Webster) who runs naming for Microsoft. He enumerated the ways that fun code names suck. Why?

Just a reminder that you can access information, docs, tools, APIs etc…

Google is looking for students from undergrad through the Ph.D levels to work on new open source code and to act as project mentors.

The Student Rant blog has the solution to the SuDoKu-like first puzzle in the Google / Da Vinci Code Quest game that Miel posted about.

Google has announced their second annual Summer of Code, with 49 organizations mentoring student developers who want to work together on some cool open source projects.

The search advertising company will support another Summer Of Code this year, where Google provides student developers with stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects.

Part of the publicity for the Tom Hanks film based on Dan Brown’s bestseller includes a puzzle-solving contest and lots of trips and Sony goodies as prizes.

Here are some important tips for you to remember and some questions to ask your web site design or development company.

In a time of web developers who just like to say that ‘Tables are Evil’ and can’t (or won’t) explain why, this article will attempt to give you some solid reasons that people create tableless designs.