The big winner in PCs was Microsoft, which spent millions on developer conferences and Visual Basic, its software toolkit for developers.
Her first big idea: she proposed measuring the time each developer spent in front of his or her computer, and dividing it by the revenue brought in by the products that person created.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft's Internet computing strategy.
Whereas a developer might have spent half a day creating a very simple app for Symbian, they can probably do it in just a few minutes with Qt.
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Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Internet computing strategy.
He flew through the first two rounds, knocking off opponents like Nick Achtien, a 27-year-old software developer, who had spent about 30 minutes on his car.
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Joe Hewitt, a former Apple developer, tweeted that he spent time with Jobs once for one of his famous product demos.
The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.
"It's a pretty arduous proposition to do something like this, and it's a project that most people don't want to do, " says the owner and developer, Dan Swanson of Addison Development, adding that he spent about three years building the home.
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He has spent the past month racing to finish an application for Google's Android Developer Challenge--a contest to build cool programs that will run on the nascent mobile platform.
Its founder, Cleveland developer Carl Milstein, was convicted in the 1970s of offering illegal gratuities to a federal housing official and spent four months in Pennsylvania's Allenwood prison.
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