Swick and Douster are the latest in a series of programmer-producers who've opted for alternative methods to diseminate their music, constructing entire immersive worlds around their albums.
On Tuesday, Digg announced it had removed user-submitted links to articles containing the HD-DVD encryption key, a series of 16 digits that programmers could use to crack the copy protection code on the new disc format.
The algorithm is written by a composer or programmer as a series of instructions that are stored in digital media (i.e., punched cards, magnetic tape, or magnetic disks) and "loaded" into the computer when the music is to be realized.
We set out to organize a conference that would be perfect for these programmers… a series of one hour basic tutorials on the hottest things that everybody wants to learn right now".
"There are not that many things in the world," says Rich Skrenta, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and programmer who, in a series of business ventures, has been trying to instill some order into the vast clutter of the Web.
Typically, programmers string together a series of API calls to services to take care of different parts of an app such as calling a payment or communications gateway.
The way it works in practice is that programmers set up a series of event triggers, so when a certain thing happens, the cloud provider sees this and provides the necessary resources on demand.
It was the second in what the organizers say will be a series of similar events aimed mostly at giving programmers a place to rock out and hack away with no overt business pressures.
As tech books go O'Reilly's leads the pack with a series of books that have reached cult status for programmers and webmasters.
"The unique venues and diverse music make it a great city to be a student clubber," says Freddie Norris, programmer for Motion, which runs a series of events held across three warehouses.
CAVEMEN Television is all about finding characters, so it must have struck some network programmer that characters already established in a series of commercials had a leg up on the recognition scale.
