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Microsoft readies business applications update

Microsoft plans to release a new version of its business-management applications next month that includes a bevy of new features, including customer extranets and personalised business reports. Read more »

PeopleSoft apps certified for Oracle middleware

Oracle has announced that its PeopleSoft applications can now run on Oracle's Fusion Middleware 10g Release 2. Read more »

Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops

Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP. Read more »

ClearNova open sources AJAX tools for Java coders

Software company ClearNova said it will open source a toolkit designed to make Java programmers more productive writing AJAX -style Web applications. Read more »

Microsoft patches may break Web sites

Two Microsoft security updates for Internet Explorer can break the functionality of Web sites that use certain custom applications. Read more »

Internet2: 2004 and beyond

Internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman doesn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in the way of reaching his students. Read more »

Big changes ahead for Flash

Macromedia took centre stage at the Flashforward2005 conference on Thursday morning to promise significant changes in its Flash animation software. Read more »

Intel launches broad reorganisation

Intel on Monday announced a company reorganisation that will create five new divisions, including two to focus on technologies in digital health care and its distribution channel. Read more »

Windows Server 2008 R2 revealed

Microsoft announced the second release of its Windows Server 2008 operating system at its Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles this week. Read more »

KDE starts testing version 4.1

KDE, the desktop software project widely used on Linux systems, this week released the first test version of KDE 4.1, a significant upgrade and the second edition of KDE to use the Qt 4 application development framework. Read more »

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Building Web applications with JDK 1.4.2

Now that the latest JDK 1.4.2 includes an optional bundled IDE, NetBeans 3.5, it's a snap to build a Web application. This article will show you how. Read more »

Mobile development in Australia--Part 2

In the second part of our series on mobile development in Australia, Builder AU investigates the skills required and key technical considerations for a succesful mobile deployment. Read more »

Why VB6 still matters

Visual Basic 6 code is something Microsoft needs to take another look at if it wants legacy applications to play nice with .NET Read more »

Ask the Java expert: Develop mobile apps

Want to start developing applications for Java phones? Builder AU's resident Java expert, Michael Geisler shows you how to get started. Read more »

Q&A: Windows Server 2003 kernel guru

Windows core technology guru Rob Short explains how hackers were involved in Windows Server 2003 development, and why not all NT4 applications will run on it. Read more »

Are you ready for 64-bit architecture development?

Many chipmakers have announced desktop-ready CPU chips based on 64-bit architecture. Will such desktops lead to a migration to 64-bit architecture development in the coming year? And, more importantly, will you be ready for it? Read more »

Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit

MMS based services are expected to provide huge opportunity for developers and operators with the availability of 3G mobile wireless networks. Read more about the Nokia 3.1 toolkit in this article. Read more »

Gain SSL functionality in JDK 1.3

If you want to add SSL to your Java 1.3 applications, you'll need to work with some external packages to support it. Here's a look at the setup, along with the server-side code. Read more »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

SQL Server applications

Get the most out of your application development efforts by familiarising yourself with SQL Server. Follow these guidelines to build better applications. Read more »

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The audience is the application

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- In a near-perfect feedback loop, the audience for software developers is now becoming part of the process, a primary development tool able to feed back its wishes and bend the outcome of developers’ efforts to better suit to its needs. Read more »

What to expect from Rich Internet Applications

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I had a look this week at what the developers claim to be the world's largest Adobe Flex application. Read more »

Application Threat Modeling v2

[blogs:] -- Threat Modeling has become one of the most important ways to increase the security of your application development projects. It allows you to understand the threats you will face, and implement countermeasure in a consistent, reliable way. If you only do one thing to improve yoru development processes, Threat Modeling should be it. Now with the new ACE Threat Modeling methodology and tools, it's easy to do as well! Read more »

Going the extra step but not the extra mile

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- I've always been a big fan of going the extra mile with error messages, it's a good way to show that you actually care about the product to take the time to customise it even when things are amiss -- and yes, things will go wrong, you will not create the perfect application. Read more »

This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »

XSS fun with Howard: Liberal Party says no

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Political parties have no sense of humour. Far from being a revelation, it was merely reinforced yet again as both the major parties in this country had their sites fall victim to XSS. Read more »

Warning: ads to get more annoying

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »

July book giveaway

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Help out in the Builder AU forums and win a book! Read more »

Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »

Builder AU's June book giveaway

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Help out in the Builder AU forums and win a book! Read more »

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