$1,000,000 in prizes from Intel

I figured it was worth mentioning again, that Intel are currently running a RealSense challenge with an absolutely massive $1M prize pool. The point is to try and come up with something new, something useful, something that makes RealSense make sense to the average person.

Go and check out the overview. The SDK is Windows 8.1 and C# or C++ only. If you win, remember who it was who told you about it. I expect a beer for my troubles.

Developer News

Why Java and C++ developers should sleep well at night

Last week TIOBE released its monthly ranking of computer programming languages for September 2014 under a headline which might keep some developers up at night, "Java and C++ at all time low." Their TIOBE scores, which measure that language’s share ofweb searches for programming languages across a number of search engines, were indeed at all time lows. Java’s share of search results was 14% this month, which continues a steady decline since its high of 26.5% in June, 2001. Similarly, C++’s share of web searches was 4.7% this month, down from its all time high of 17.5% in August, 2003.