IBM developerWorks

www.ibm.com/developerworks/ru/ IBM developerWorks is a specialized resource for professional developers with articles about new technologies, about methodology of collective development, a large number of training materials and serious deep technical literature. Communication of participants is performed within the thematic forums where it is possible to communicate, ask questions and to learn the opinion of specialists of both IBM, and other companies on the interesting questions. The main users of this resource are professional developers and specialists in the field of IT. The resource is extremely popular among community of supporters of the free software. Also there is a special section for higher education institutions therefore among visitors of a resource there are a lot of teachers and students of educational institutions of Russia.

History

The social network started in May, 2010 on the Russian Internet portal IBM developerWorks proved the demand among the Russian developers. In three months from the moment of opening of public registration by August, 2010 the number of its participants contained already tens of thousands.

The social network for My developerWorks on the Russian Internet portal developerWorks was provided in May, 2010, and for record-breaking short time proved 100%-tnoye "getting" into audience. Similar social network – the direction, new to the Russian version of the portal. In particular, in the USA the similar project was started at the end of 2008. In Russia the network was very demanded: in the very first days since launch the professional developers, students, other specialists who are interested in software development and also the staff of IBM began to be registered on it.

The social network works at the IBM Lotus Connections platform. Performing function of an online conference in open access, blogs, forums, groups and wiki-resources of network help developers to exchange knowledge and experience, and to brand managers of IBM – always to be in touch with the existing and potential customers.

The IBM developerWorks portal was open in 2005 for the purpose of informing and training of developers in acceptances of programming. For 2 years the number of unique visitors of the portal increased by 75%, and in September, 2010 made more than 200 thousand a month (the number of nonunique visitors at the same time reaches about one and a half million a month).

More than 70% of captive audience of the portal – professional developers, and their quantity constantly increase. Another 20% of audience – students who combine study with work in the field of software development.

One of advantages of the IBM developerWorks resource – big percent of local content. The portal publishes only author's materials from which more than 50% of articles are written by professionals who live and work in Russia. Function of automatic translation of the text from Russian into English on the IBM Influent platform allows Russian-speaking audience to communicate with authors and experts from other countries directly.

Yakovlev Pavel, the Chief Editor of the developerWorks portal, told: "Growth of our audience in 2010 is a logical continuation of powerful start which we put in 2005. As for a format of social network, new to us, growth of its audience much more exceeded our expectations. Our purpose – to make so that communication in network was most convenient for all participants that it was possible, having come into group or on a forum to find all necessary presentations and statistics at once and also right there to ask a question directly and to personally obtain information from specialists of IBM".

The portal develops in several directions. First, it serves as the platform on which IBM realizes initiatives in the field of the academic education. On the portal it is possible to find a broad spectrum of tools for program architects. Other major part of the Internet platform is devoted to software of the open code – Linux which the IBM company announced the key strategy of the further development. Thirdly, the portal supports archive of a practical advice on work with technologies of IBM among which the sections devoted to Rational Jazz enjoy special popularity.

Cracking

On January 8, 2011 in mailing of Full Disclosure the message about cracking of the website of IBM for DeveloperWorks appeared. Hackers made "дефейс" the website — replaced several it pages, including a capital letter, with pages with the messages. No data, passwords of users and other information were stolen at the same time, representatives of corporation claim. During cracking on the website regular maintenance was carried out. In several hours the initial contents of pages were recovered, however copies of messages of hackers already dispersed on Network.

On the replaced page on a black background it was largely written: "Defaced by Hmei7". Below the letter in which hackers in broken English claimed that cracking was made for the best and for the purpose of warning of owners of the website of existence of vulnerability in a system was located.

Representatives of the Polish company Ariko Security said in Full Disclosure mailing that they warned IBM about numerous vulnerabilities both on the website DeveloperWorks, and on other websites of corporation seven months ago. Among them and cross-site scripting is (XSS), and possibilities of a bypass of directories and an injection of frames.