Besides the 4, 000 companies, IBM says it is also registering 35, 000 software developers per month on its developer Web site.

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In that case, a developer played a prank, there was no web site hack or related problem.

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The problem at ESPN showed that a developer can get unintended code into the production web site without triggering any alarms.

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Even though Eventbrite gives you the code so that your web developer can embed the registration form on your site, there's still Eventbrite branding on the form.

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The Next Web reports that Nike has opened up its APIs on the company developer site today, which means devs now have a way to hook into the data all those FuelBands and SportWatches generate.

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