By pulling together a bunch of developers from around the U.S. to make an app development power house.
Now Stack Exchange, which runs a bunch of developer-focused sites, is getting into the game: today it announced the launch of AskPatents.com, a new site it hopes will be the basis of a community effort to help fight down some of the more bogus patent applications being made today.
But there's a petition from a bunch of developers making AR apps, for Apple to fully support this.
For years, we gadget bloggers have had a common refrain: lock a bunch of developers in a room and make them build a great product.
At a round robin demo event yesterday with a bunch of developers of AR apps and features, I got a nice cross-section of looks at possible AR applications.
"The old way of doing things is to cram a bunch of developers into a room and get them to write 100,000's of lines of code hoping that in a few months time they have something that works.
A Silicon Valley analyst has surmised that the iPhone is so complicated to that, last minute, Apple had to pull a bunch of developers off Leopard to help work out some of the iPhone's kinks.
/dev/fort is the brainchild of London-based developers James Aylett and Mark Norman Francis – and provides an answer to the age-old question: what happens when a bunch of developers and designers lock themselves away in a 19th century fortress on the Channel Island of Alderney, without Internet access, and decide to build a cool app.
In recent years, as those God-fearing farmers with their calloused hands began to die off, their families sold the land to a bunch of developers.
It seems that tool for growing an app's audience is not long for this world as Facebook has announced that App Invites, alongside a bunch of other developer integrations, will be sunsetting over the next few months.
This one should be particularly interesting for anyone following the Lodsys patent debacle (tl dr: a bunch of iOS developers get legal threats from Lodsys over patents they claim the developers are infringing.
