New York City has undermined code enforcement by letting building owners and developers "self-certify" that they are complying with the law.
Other mods such as Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat (DOD) began life as the work of independent developers (self-termed "modders") who later received aid from Valve.
One is its largest acquisition to date: Oakland-based Social Concepts, the parent company of mobile social casino game developer Self Aware Games.
We recognized that the ideal role for Epic in the industry is to drive that, and so we began the transition of being a fairly narrow console developer focused on Xbox to being a multi-platform game developer and self publisher, and indie on a larger scale," he explained.
Reserving land for small developers and self-builders when public land is sold for development.
Mr. Morris describes Mr. Shulgin, a drug developer and self tester, as a personal hero and "the most important psychedelic chemist who has ever lived".
More than ever, people want to be agents of change themselves: whether saving historic pubs from demolition by unscrupulous private developers, or self-building communal housing projects.
Others, built under a system that allowed developers to "self-certify" — meaning that they could unilaterally declare, with only minimal government oversight, that their properties complied with building codes — are now falling apart, even while residents live there.
Apollo lets software developers make self-contained, offline copies of their Web-based applications, Flash creations and more.
Most applications, including DICOM viewing applications, are within the lowest risk category (class I), which means the developers can self-declare conformity to the essential requirements without the need for independent review.
As part of PS4 the company has significant plans to allow small developers to self-publish on the system, although still under a dev kit model.
