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Hostworks tempts .NET developers

Hostworks has announced it will provide free hosting to developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET, in a service branded One Click Hosting. Read more »

NetBSD 2.0 takes Xen path

The latest version of NetBSD has been ported to additional environments, including an open-source virtual machine monitor. Read more »

NetBeans update ships with Sun onboard

The NetBeans open-source project on Wednesday released a major update to the NetBeans Java development tool, and its main backer, Sun Microsystems, announced a support program. Read more »

Mac usage skyrockets in 2007

The use of Apple Macs rose over half a percentage point as 2007 drew to a close, according to statistics released this week. Read more »

Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic

Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's Web site was unable to keep up with the demand for the software. Read more »

BEA lights US$87.5m fire under its SOA ambitions

Fuego has been acquired to give BEA's offerings a BPM boost. Read more »

BEA Systems acquires Fuego

BEA Systems announced on Wednesday that it bought business process management software maker Fuego for US$87.5 million in cash. Read more »

Centrelink puts open source commitment in writing

Centrelink is authoring a formal open-source policy document and investing heavily in open-source systems to anchor an improved identity management regime that's hoped to help recover up to AU$50 million in losses to fraud annually, infrastructure planner David Oram told attendees at the AUUG 2004 conference in Melbourne. Read more »

Atlantic launch expands IBM's tools range

A new suite of Eclipse-based tools planned for release by the end of the year promises to make large-scale development easier. Read more »

Sun's Tiger aims to tame Java programming

Sun Microsystems has released an early edition of software that will form the underpinnings of future Java applications for desktop computers. Read more »

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Configuring the corporate development environment

Builder.com looks at the three key elements of every .NET development environmentâ€"development workstations, development servers, and development procedures. Read more »

Java jams: five IDEs tested

We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. Read more »

Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2008

If you often have to track down bugs in an application installed on another machine, you should check out Microsoft's remote debugger tool with Visual Studio 2008. This article takes a look at its set-up and usage. Read more »

What tools assist with your .NET development?

If you work on big projects in .NET you've got to have the right toolset. We all have our favorite applications, but which ones increase productivity and make our job easier? Read more »

Hunt down buggy .NET code faster

Learn how you can use continuous integration to automate the build process and provide instant feedback on .NET coding errors Read more »

Threading in C#

Using multiple threads can help you achieve greater performance, scalability, and responsiveness in your applicationsââ,¬"but you need to be careful. Follow these tips to avoid danger. Read more »

Windows 2003 certification: Top 10 study topics

See what you'll need to bone up on to keep your Microsoft server certifications current. Read more »

Interact with the OS via .NET's WMI

.NET's Windows Management Instrumentation provides management functionality that provides the vehicle for interacting with the underlying operating system. Read more »

Take service management to new levels in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008

The sc (service controller) command manages Windows services from the command line. This can be integral to any semi-automated failover mechanism, service watchdog, or a mass update that requires some configuration to the service. Read more »

Easily test Web services with soapUI

The soapUI tool makes it much easier to test Web services during development. It's also useful for interacting with third-party Web services to get a better idea of what to expect (and what to include) in the response. Read more »

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    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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