coderbits

Intelligent portfolios for developers and designers. We build factual up-to-date portfolios from sites you use to showcase your skills, expertise, traits, code, designs, education, and more.

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Coderbits is joining [topcoder]

We are excited to share the news that coderbits will be joining [topcoder]!

When we started coderbits two years ago, our mission was to create reliable, accurate, and automatically updated portfolios for software developers and designers. Along the way, it grew into a vibrant community of developers, sharing and growing together while working towards exciting opportunities.

What many of you may not know is that coderbits was a side project for us. We carved out what little free time we could to build what you see today, but always wanted to do much more. With this move, we will now be part of a larger community that puts developers and designers at the center of things and is willing to commit the resources to grow and morph into something even bigger. [topcoder] is one of the oldest, largest, and most respected communities around and we couldn’t be more excited about the combination.

We would like to thank everyone for his or her support of coderbits. Your use, support, and ideas have helped shape it into what it is today. We look forward to this next part of our journey with coderbits, [topcoder], and you.

Don't worry, no monkeys were harmed in the making of this partnership; Bit Munkey is sticking with the team.

You can learn more about this acquisition and [topcoder] here.

Thanks for being a part of coderbits.

Scott Smith and Thabo Fletcher

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Coderbits for Employers, Educators, and Businesses

Opportunities

We are excited to introduce Opportunities. Opportunities are the latest feature for coderbits that enable employers, educators, and businesses to reach the rich talent pool within coderbits. There are 4 types of opportunities: Jobs, Competitions, Education, and Open Source. If you would like to learn more and get started, Take the Tour or View our Plans and Pricing.

Limited Time Special

As a thank you to all our members and to celebrate this release, we are offering a lifetime 50% discount on any plan. This means that any plan you subscribe to by February 7th, 2014 will be half the current price forever (or until you cancel). SUBSCRIBE NOW

Job Opportunities

Looking to hire a new developer? Have a project you need assitance with? Look no further. Our job opportunity system allows you not only post your job, but to have it delivered to qualified candidates using our advanced targeting system.

Competition Opportunities

Competition opportunities are primarily geared towards coding challenges for fun, experience, or profit. They can also be used for events such as hackathons and are not necessarily tied to being online only.

Education Opportunities

Want to find new students to enroll in your course, online school, training videos, or bootcamp? We have you covered. Education opportunities allow you to reach students looking to learn the technologies you provide based on their identified interests.

Open Source Opportunities

Our 100% free opportunity offering is for open source projects seeking help from the developer community without compensation. These usually tend to be projects looking for others to join as contributors by fixing bugs and implementing features.

Update Credit Price Reduction

We reduced the pricing of update credits for those who wish to be able to update their portfolio anytime they want. The new prices are: 1 for $1 (no change), 10 for $5, and 25 for $10. You can Purchase Creditson your dashboard. For those that purchased credits previously, we will be granting some extra credits as a thank you.

Resume, CV, and Availability

We added the ability for you to upload or link to a resume in order to enhance your portfolio. You can also mark yourself as available for hire which will add a badge to your portfolio. These new items can be added in the Profile Builder.

Weekly Update Emails

We have switched from daily update emails to weekly update emails. Nobody likes to get a ton of email so we switched in order to provide useful information while reducing the noise! As always, you can control which emails you receive in your Account Settings.

Ready To Get Started?

There are a few ways to get started with Opportunities: Take the Tour to learn about the benefits and detailed features, View our Plans and Pricing to see your options, or Subscribe to a Plan and share your jobs, competitions, and more.

Thanks for being a part of coderbits.

Bit Munkey and the whole team over here at coderbits

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Codealike now integrated in coderbits

Introduction

For all you Visual Studio developers, we have some great news! Codealike, the powerful metric system for high performance developers is now supported in coderbits. Codealike is a plugin for Visual Studio that hooks into the technology you use everyday to provide quality metrics.

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This integration brings 2 new badges: Dedicated and Phoenix. Even better, it provides detailed verified skills for your portfolio based on the languages, frameworks, environments, and tools you use when developing with Visual Studio.

Your code has a story to tell

See your timeline and review how you found a solution. Use this Codealike feature to reveal the DNA of your work.

Learn about your habits

Isn't it curious that you have clocks everywhere but you cannot tell exactly how much time you spend coding? That won't happen to you anymore, Codealike will show you the amount of time when coding, debugging, building...

The way you work has a pattern

Coding is an art you practice every day. Your coding pattern tells a lot about how you work. Are you a debugger or a coding-oriented developer?

Technology matters

The time you spend coding in each technology tells a lot about you. Do you know what technologies do you use the most? Positive?

How to get it?

Simple head over to http://codealike.com to create your account and install the plugin in Visual Studio. After that, it takes care of the rest. Oh, and don't forget to link to your Codealike account on coderbits as well!

Happy Coding Everyone!

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Arduino developers rejoice, codebender integrated in coderbits

Coderbits newest integration is codebender.

With codebender, Arduino users are provided an online development and collaboration platform.

Code

Awesome editor, fast cloud-based compiler, helpful error reporting. Code faster and easier.

Deploy

Connect your Arduino via USB, or program your Arduino Ethernet remotely over the network.

Share

Share your work, search for existing projects and clone them, or collaborate with others.

With this integration comes skill verification in the area of Arduino development, a new badge, and snippets to show off the code you develop.

Create your codebender account and add it to your profile.

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New site added: Looking for Pull Requests

Looking for Pull Requests, developed by Fernando, is a site focused on making it easy for you to find open source projects for you to contribute to and find people to help you with your projects as well.

With this integration comes a new badge called Humanitarian as well as additional skills on your profile.

http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/

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Teams, enhanced posts, and more

We are pleased to announce some new and exciting updates to coderbits.

Teams

Teams can now be created and managed by you. Teams provide access to member activity, ability to promote your team, startup, or business, and the chance to take the top slot in the leaderboard.

Posts

Social sharing

We added many new ways to quickly and easily share posts on the social media sites you use. Posts can be shared on Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Geeklist.

Featured posts

When creating posts, you will be given the option to have your post featured across the coderbits site. Featured posts stand out with a label and are showcased throughout the site. Get the attention you want and need for your posts.

Markdown

Full markdown is now supported in posts and post comments. We have provided links in each area where markdown is supported so you can easily reference the syntax. If you do not know markdown, you can continue creating posts as before. Plain text is valid markdown and will be rendered properly.

@mentions

When creating posts and post comments, you can now @mention users by typing @ followed by their name or username. After 2 characters are entered, we will provide a list of matching users to aid in selection of the correct user. This feature will also trigger notifications to the mentioned users that also have the notification enabled.

Code

With the addition of markdown, code can now be shared in posts. We have a new type of post category called Code for this very purpose.

Filtering

There are now many ways to filter the list of posts:

Featured posts

Your posts

Posts you have liked

Posts you have commented on

By tag

By coder

By search string

RSS feeds

Two new RSS feeds have been added for posts and post comments.

New notifications

We have two new email notifications that allow you to be informed when you are mentioned in a post or post comment and when someone comments on a post you had previously commented on.

Preview

When creating posts you can now preview your post before submitting it. This is even more helpful now with the support of markdown.

Profile update credits

To provide a great experience for new users, we perform profile updating automatically when accounts are linked. From that point forward, we update profiles automatically on a schedule.

For those wishing to not wait for their next scheduled update, we have provided an option for purchasing update credits that can be used to force a full update of your profile.

When using this method, your next scheduled automatic update will not be affected.

Credits can be purchased in one of three ways:

1 credit for $1.00

10 credits for $9.00 (10% discount)

20 credits for $16.00 (20% discount)

Lots more

Along with these major changes, we have updated the UI to give it a cleaner look, added performance and scalability features, and tuned our aggregation engine.

Thanks for reading and enjoy!

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New site added to coderbits - Codeivate

Coderbits is excited to announce our latest addition to supported sites: Codeivate. 

An easy to install Sublime Text Editor plugin that passively records statistics as you code that provides you with personal analytics, industry insight, and allows you to compete with others.

The Codeivate plugin records data as you code, for privacy reasons it does not record filenames or individual keystrokes. After entering your authentication details, it will store and process data on their website.

Coderbits integration includes a new badge (Trooper) based on how much time you work along with language and environment skill detection.

Sign up here: http://cdrs.co/1bqTJWg

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Coder Battle

Battle your fellow coders! Coder Battle is the result 12 hours of work, beer, and socializing during a local hackathon. It is a fun and casual way to measure yourself up against your friends and colleagues on coderbits.

http://coderbattle.com

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Is anyone there?

It has been a bit quiet around here for the past month. We wanted to let you all know that we are not sitting idle. We have some great features in the works we think you will all love.

So stayed tuned...

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Coderbits graduates!

The time has come for us to graduate coderbits from beta to full public release. What does this mean to you? Actually not much. We still plan to iterate quickly by adding new features, site integrations, and more. We are just opening up the service to everyone.

The invitation system will stay in place so feel free to continue inviting your friends and colleagues to join coderbits. You will be credited for those you invite to join.

For those that have been away for a while. We would like to invite you back to see all the changes, additions, and community here at coderbits. We currently have 63 site integrations, 9 areas of portfolio categorization, finely tuned skill system, 600+ badges, and much more.

Finally we want to thank all of you for trying out coderbits during the beta and providing so much valuable feedback. It has come a long ways since we added our first 10 beta users back in September!

Bit and the whole team here at coderbits!

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Introducing Competitions

No no, we are not holding competitions on coderbits. We now have a section on your profile to showcase the competitions you take part in. The first item added to competitions is challenges. Challenges are competitions that are entered and completed in order to increase skills and show coding prowess.

Right now CloudSpokes and our newest site Coderbyte have the ability to populate your Competition section.

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Coderbyte joins the list of support sites

Our latest site supported on coderbits is Coderbyte. With this integration comes 3 new badges, skills, activity, and the newest area competitions.

On Coderbyte you get to put your skills to the test with many of their complex programming challenges. Earn points, get ranked, and compete in competitions!

Be sure to create an account and start taking their challenges!

coderbyte.com

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Plunker support added to coderbits

Plunker, an online community for creating, collaborating on and sharing your web development ideas, has been added to coderbits. Plunker offers a wide range of features and is worth checking out if you haven't used it before.

Linking to Plunker on coderbits will provide activity, code, skills, and a badge for your profile.

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Packagist support added to coderbits

For those of you that use Packagist, you can now link to it and gain credit on your profile. Your profile will have activity, packages, skills, and of course some new badges.

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Search

You can now search coderbits for your fellow coders and posts. The search feature for coders will search against the Name and Username. The search for posts will search the Title and Tags.

We have also implemented tag filtering for posts. Simply click any post tag to view all posts that have the same tag.

The ability to search for coders based on skills and traits is not available yet. We have more work to do in that area before this feature is made available.

Along with the search feature you will notice some minor cosmetic changes to some of the pages, the Teams and Coders navigation combined inside Leaderboards, and account features combined within a profile menu.

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3 new accounts supported on coderbits

Launchpad - this is a profile link only. We are unable to aggregate data from Launchpad into your profile at this time.

Pluralsight - linking this account will net you updates to your activity stream, a new badge, education details, and skills.

Python Fiddle - linking this account will net you updates to your activity stream, a new badge, code snippets, and skills.

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Dribbble Bit to Facebook Contest

We are ready to "officially" launch our Facebook page and are reaching out to talented folks with an eye for design to help us make the page amazing.

https://www.facebook.com/coderbits

What can you win?

We have two invitations to join the Dribbble community up for grabs. Dribbble is a super cool community of designers showing the amazing stuff they are working on, a place to show and tell, promote, discover, and explore design.

No more scouting or prospecting. Just join and become an active member. You could even win both invitations if you get lucky. Already a member … give them away to your friends or enemies to make them your friends! Winners will also win one of two unique badges to be shown off on your coderbits profile.

Even if you don't win, you won't walk away empty handed. Along with the satisfaction of making some cool stuff you will also receive a limited edition badge on coderbits for entering the contest.

Badge for entering the contest:

Badge for the winning profile image submission:

Badge for the winning cover image submission:

What do you have to do?

Design a profile image to be used on our Facebook page

Design a cover image to be used on our Facebook page

Post your design on coderbits before the contest ends at 12:00 Pacific Time on April 5, 2013.

Like us on Facebook … not required … but Bit would appreciate it!

Official rules

Each design concept must be posted on coderbits. To post on coderbits, you must have an account. We will be accepting new users more frequently during the contest.

The profile image submission winner will be given 1 Dribbble invitation and a unique badge.

The cover image submission winner will be given 1 Dribbble invitation and a unique badge.

You are allowed to submit entries for both designs. If both of your submissions are chosen as the winner, you will receive both invitations.

You are allowed to submit as many entries as you like.

Winners will be chosen based on total likes.

Contest ends at 12:00 Pacific Time on April 5, 2013.

Contestants entering submissions are granting coderbits the rights to use the images.

And most of all … have fun!

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