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Happy 10th Birthday! IBM developerWorks
Celebrating 10 years of IT leadership
In September 1999, IBM developerWorks began a journey to become the destination on the Web for developers and IT professionals to stay ahead of the latest trends in open standards, develop skills, solve problems, and collaborate with peers. Over the last ten years, IBM developerWorks has expanded its focus from open standards technologies to include IBM products, and has grown from a single worldwide site in English to multiple local sites in 8 languages. The most popular offerings are still articles, tutorials, downloads, and forums, but developerWorks added new ways for the community to collaborate using wikis, spaces, and code exchange. In April, a radical transformation started with My developerWorks, bringing developers new ways to network, learn from each other, and work together. But the journey isn't over yet -- there are even more exciting developments in the future. No matter what changes, one thing remains the same: developerWorks is still a Web site by developers for developers.
Thanks for being part of the IBM developerWorks community. Join us as we celebrate the journey of the last 10 years!
View the developerWorks time line: Ten years of IT leadership
Did you know?
- developerWorks is IBM's leading online destination for 4 million IT professionals worldwide every month.
- developerWorks is designed for virtually all types of IT practitioners from startups to students, academics and business partners to build skills on open-standards based technologies.
- developerWorks offers 17,000 articles and 1,400 tutorials available to help you stay in touch with trends and grow your skills.
- developerWorks has 660,000 monthly visitors viewing and using 1,370 forums with 702,000 forum posts. Explore forums.
- developerWorks has 625 authors worldwide in the IBM developerWorks Author Achievement Recognition Program. Anyone can be an author -- learn how.
- developerWorks includes 308 blogs and 340 community groups. Check it out and make your voice heard.
- developerWorks has over 300,000 registered users. Do you have a My developerWorks profile? If not, you're missing out. Get connected!
- developerWorks supports 8 languages with registered community members from 195 different countries. Learn more.
- developerWorks has over twelve thousand followers on Twitter. You can be one too! http://twitter.com/developerworks/.
Top content picks from developerWorks editors
- developerWorks Java technology: 10 years and counting
- Top 10 Open Source articles of the past decade
- 10 Linux developments everyone should know about
- Take a journey through time with the Web Development editor
- Tracing the growth of XML with key articles and popular authors
- AIX and UNIX articles that keep readers coming back
- Hit the highlights of Lotus developerWorks articles
- Rational top 10 articles over the last 5 years
- The best of WebSphere – hand-picked for quality, variety & popularity
- Scott Laningham shares his favorite podcasts
- Most popular product trials on developerWorks
- Top 10 reasons to join the Academic Initiative
- Michael O'Connell, developerWorks Editor-in-Chief, reflects on past and future changes at developerWorks
developerWorks through the years
Steve Mills, Senior Vice President, IBM Software Group, talks about the growth of developerWorks. Listen now!
- Video: Stephanie Martin, Director of developerWorks, talks about IBM's award winning Web site for developers.
- Podcast: Dirk Nicol, Web 2.0 evangelist, discusses how developerWorks came to be, 10 years ago.
- Podcast: Gina Poole, Vice President, Social Software Programs, describes the growth and success of developerWorks to the global IT audience.
- Blogs: Read what My developerWorks bloggers are writing about our 10-year birthday.
- Podcast: Michael O'Connell's favorite memory as Editor-in-Chief of developerWorks.
Birthday messages
Send us a birthday wish by direct message on Twitter (@developerworks #dwbirthday) or add to our message board
From the community...
"I signed on to developerWorks in its first year, 1999. I was delighted to have such a wide-ranging, technology-tolerant source of quality developer education available, for free. developerWorks has been my key professional resource and partnership from its commencement, and I owe it big time."
— Russell Searle (rsearle)
"As a project leader, head of Information department and network administrator I have looked for information on products offered by IBM, trends of information systems development and visited developerWorks regularly since 2003. I rely on bookmarks in developerWorks and it saves my time."
— Tomas Balciunas (Ekranas)
"developerWorks pretty much helps me every day. The first thing I do every day is open Notes, GMail, a newspaper site, and several forums from developerWorks. You can find me in the Lotus 6/7, 8, 8.5, WebSphere Portal and Sametime forums."
— Sebastian Fratini (Sebastian_Fratini)
"Like most geeks these days, I don't know everything, but I know where I can find everything quickly. developerWorks is definitely one of the resources I use to learn quickly when I need to."
— Brian Benz (BrianBenz)
"I use developerWorks as a focused network to communicate with professionals from the Gurus to the users. Through developerWorks, I get to hear what people have to say, learn new ideas, get technical information and more. I like to think I don't just gain from it but also contribute. More than anything,
I use it to answer questions in Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest forums. I enjoy solving users' problems."
— Tamir Gefen (Tgefen)
