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Welcome to developerWorks
A top destination for IT professionals
IBM developerWorks is the industry-leading and award-winning technical resource and professional network for the developer community. Our two most recent awards, for example, recognize our effective use of social media: the Forrester Groundswell Award and the AMI SMB Social Media Award.
Four million developers, IT professionals, and students in 195 countries use developerWorks each month to learn about advances in IT and open standards, develop skills, solve problems, and work collaboratively with experts and peers.
Since 1999, developerWorks has been the IT industry’s most comprehensive source of technical content, downloadable code, and community forums focusing on IBM software products, as well as on open-standards technologies such as Java, Linux, XML, Web development, and more. The site is available in 8 languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.
Depth and breadth of technical content
developerWorks provides an extensive, easy-to-search technical library to help you get up to speed on the essential technologies affecting your profession.
- Maintain your professional edge and improve your productivity through:
- Find the answer to questions in our forums.
- Personalize your view of developerWorks
to hone in on the topics and types of
resources that interest you, and automatically
receive suggestions for additional content
relevant to your interests, all on your custom
home page.
Supportive network of IT professionals
developerWorks makes it easy for you to form meaningful connections to build a professional network that can help you solve problems. With the developerWorks community, you can:
- Join the network of millions of IT professionals around the world to find the peers and experts you need to know.
- Debate and collaborate for ideal solutions to your tough technical questions, or stand out as the superstar with the answers.
- Build relationships with technical professionals who have similar interests and get ahead together.
Career-building recognition
developerWorks enables you to get the recognition you deserve among your peers worldwide.
- Build the skills you need to better compete in the rapidly changing IT field with a vast inventory of technical articles and tutorials, skill kits, and demos.
- Take advantage of developerWorks as a platform
to showcase your experience and knowledge to
the IT community worldwide.
- Share your skills and opinions, identify your interests and roles, and connect with peers through your profile.
- Make your voice heard, add input, ask questions, and follow responses with inline comments, ratings, and blogs.
- Use our blogging platform to express your insights and opinions, and share information with others who have similar interests by bookmarking and tagging content you find valuable.
The more you participate in the developerWorks
community, the more visibility and respect you
earn from your peers and stand out as a leader in
your field.
Join the developer community
- Build your profile to access the tools and network of developers, IT professionals, and students.
- Customize your home page and engage with the developer community through groups, blogs, wikis, and more as illustrated in these demos and this step-by-step guide.