Welcome to Buildr, the Builder AU labs. We've been busy cooking up some new community features and enhancements -- some will fly, some won't.
If you have an idea or some code to contribute, give us a yell.
Tetris
The old gaming classic has found its way into a Javascript version. There's simply no better way to avoid working than calling up a Web page with Tetris.
Colour Picker
Forget starting up a paint program simply to find out the RGB value of a colour that you need for a Web page -- use our colour picker and you can save the colours you are after.
Code Search
Taking advantage of Google's APIs allows us to provide more examples of code than we could otherwise.
Zeitgeist
Learn about the Builder readership using statistics from over the past month. Our zeitgeist provides stats for browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, % use of Java, Javscript and Flash.
Bingo
Meetings getting too much? Need something to pass the time? Then you need to play Builder's Buzzword Bingo. Mark off the words as you hear then and be the winner!
What's on?
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Club Builder: Sports, Gates and Gears
This week on Club Builder: Steve Ballmer gives a teary goodbye to Bill Gates, Mark Taylor moves into IT endorsements and we ask some Google Gears questions.
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I recently wrote an introduction to the Google Web Toolkit based on Lars Rasmussen's session at the Google Developer Day 2008 in Sydney. Following the introductory session Lars gave us a deeper insight into GWT, particularly what's new in version 1.5. Read more »
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At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
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Google's new foray into image searchGoogle is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. In addition images can be matched with display ads and utilise geotagging information for various applications. Read more »
