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Fake Morris Iemma on Twitter

Renai LeMay — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:12:01 +1000 AEST

Someone this afternoon briefly started using the Twitter micro-blogging service to impersonate newly ousted NSW State Premier Morris Iemma; and the results were hilarious.

Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?

Suzanne Tindal — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:11:02 +1000 AEST

The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning.

Video: Microsoft's Seinfeld ad

Chris Duckett — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:39:01 +1000 AEST

Microsoft has revealed what $10 million of Seinfeld gets — and the laughs are few.

Apple to developer: Fart jokes aren't funny

Staff — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:19:32 +1000 AEST

When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power?

Video: History of British PCs

Andy McCue — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:26:01 +1000 AEST

The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.

Video: History of British PCs

Andy McCue — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:16:44 +1000 AEST

The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.

Photos: Tech.Ed Australia 2008

Munir Kotadia — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:01 +1000 AEST

Microsoft's annual Tech.Ed conference hit Sydney's Darling Harbour this week. ZDNet.com.au took these photos to show you what you were missing if you couldn't go.

Microsoft refutes hypervisor attack claim

Liam Tung — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:59:01 +1000 AEST

Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing.

Chrome is just another browser

Staff — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:37:29 +1000 AEST

Hands up if you missed the Chrome release -- didn't think anyone did. Google's browser arrived with all the fanfare and hype that only Google can produce.

Oracle destroyed Ellison's emails

Steven Musil — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:25:01 +1000 AEST

Software maker Oracle deliberately destroyed or withheld CEO Larry Ellison's emails and failed to preserve audio recordings sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed against the software maker, a US federal judge has ruled.

23 Sept launch for Adobe CS4

Mike Ricciuti — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:24:01 +1000 AEST

Adobe this week said it would launch an update to its flagship Creative Suite software bundle on 23 September.

IBM strike called off

Suzanne Tindal — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:46:01 +1000 AEST

After a meeting this morning between an employees' union and Big Blue, the threat of a strike by 45 workers at IBM's Baulkham Hills facility has been lifted.

Implementing the Soundex function in C#

Zach Smith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:30:01 +1000 AEST

For years Microsoft SQL Server has provided developers with a method called Soundex that is used to retrieve an encoded string. Words that sound alike have similar encodings, so you can use this functionality to provide some flexibility in searches. This article shows how to implement Soundex completely in C# without having to use the SQL function.

Gather query tuning data via Oracle's dynamic performance views

Bob Watkins — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:59:02 +1000 AEST

The dynamic performance views supplied with the Oracle database include several that make the process of gathering tuning information easier. This tip describes four of them: V$SQL, V$SQLAREA, V$SQLTEXT, and a new one, V$SQLSTATS.

Google plans Chrome extensions

Stephen Shankland — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:24:01 +1000 AEST

Google yesterday in the US said it planned to develop an add-ons system for its new Chrome browser, similar to the functionality that can be found in rival Mozilla Firefox.

IBM and union to hold last parley

Suzanne Tindal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:45:01 +1000 AEST

The Australian Services Union will meet with IBM tomorrow as a last effort to talk over the issues which have a small section of workers in Big Blue's Baulkham Hills facility on the brink of a strike.

Video: 25 years of GNU with Fry

Tom Espiner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:25:31 +1000 AEST

The Free Software Foundation is beginning celebrations of 25 years of GNU with the release of a video presented by actor and comedian Stephen Fry.

Stephen Fry kicks off GNU's 25th birthday party

Tom Espiner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:23:01 +1000 AEST

The Free Software Foundation is beginning celebrations of 25 years of GNU with the release of a video presented by actor and comedian Stephen Fry.

Why Chrome will win and why it will lose

Nick Heath — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:30:01 +1000 AEST

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of Chrome. We spoke to industry experts and Google's new rivals to find out why Chrome matters and whether the browser reality can deliver on the hype.

Ivar Jacobson: Developers are too fashionable

Brendon Chase — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:22:02 +1000 AEST

One of the fathers of software development processes says the industry is too fashionable, needs to stop re-inventing the wheel, and focus on being more creative.