IT managers keep close eye on programming contest

15.05.2006

Zehr said the TopCoder project is the first one in which ESPN has used nonstaff programmers to build a content system.

TopCoder developers used XML and Web services to build the content management system, which is now being tested and is slated to be rolled out this summer.

"They could increase our bandwidth without us necessarily hiring more people, and do it in a way that the code base becomes 'open-source' within our realm so we can add onto it," Zehr said.