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Since several months ago , there is a new kind of competition in TopCoder. It’s called as TopCoder Studio. The competitions that are held varies from web designing, icon and logo creation, wireframe designing, etc. Your task is simply creating the design, submitting it, and waiting for the winner. If you win, TopCoder may ask you to do some modification and the money will be transferred to your bank account. For each competition, you will get some specification of the design. This may include how big is the design, the color that you may use, the font you may use and all other design aspect. And this varies from one competition to other.

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Ever seen the Rails webcast? If yes, you might wonder what kind of editor did the creator use, and you probably has known the answer. Yes, it’s TextMate.

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The newest edition of Dr. Dobb’s Journal wrote:

Open-source developers do something that Microsoft and Apple can’t: Deliver a complex bundle of software on time, year after year.

I already impressed with the work that Eclipse Foundation had done. From release 3.0 to 3.3, I am one of many programmers that downloaded the newest milestone every time it released. And I never have to wait more than 1 week before that milestone published. And for the stable version, it always delivered on time.

I don’t know if they do it with sacrificing the quality of the software. As far as I experience, that was never the case and I always satisfied with the major release (well, since I always try the milestones, you were probably more satisfied that I am). How can they do that?

I expect there are a lot of conflict of interests happen in the organization. But eventually they solve it and deliver a product that is used by millions of programmers. And I don’t say Java programmers. There are also many C++ programmers that use CDT and web developers that use Aptana etc. This is simply amazing!