The idea of the "cleanweb," or using IT to deal with energy and resource problems, gains ground among entrepreneurs and VCs at weekend hackathon. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

Aaron Stockton, whose team last year built a gaming app last year that won $2500 for best original code, works in the Impact Hub spaces (Will Mari / Geekwire). All over the world technologists are ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It used to be that “hacking” was just a type of crime, a computer break-in. But today, the term is also part of a growing — and perfectly legal — mainstay of the tech sector.

Companies hold code hackathons to help build team spirit, learn new skills and even create valuable products. If the company has offices around the globe, some careful scheduling can create an ...

Clean code is one of the first ideas that makes developers feel like professionals. For many developers, though, it can stop being a helpful guideline and become a trap instead. That's why you need to ...

Hackathons have always been creative. They remind me of spontaneous music jams - only instead of drummers and saxophonists, we gather as product managers, UI designers and coders. Sometimes people ask ...

ANKENY, Iowa — Nick Leeper spends most of his days writing code and building products for Des Moines-based start-up Dwolla. However, he spent Saturday "hacking away" at a program that another business ...

I like to spend most of my weekends taking workout classes with friends, exploring new restaurants or vegging out on the couch with a movie on. The past weekend, however, was unique. Instead of the ...