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Getting ready for the Python breakage

If Google starts behaving oddly later this year, it might not be due to too many YouTube videos of Britney Spears losing it or a stealth attack by Microsoft's minions, but because of a forthcoming change to the Python programming language. Read more »

Microsoft: Vista UAC designed to 'annoy users'

A Microsoft manager has said one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to "annoy users" in order to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure. Read more »

Tool shoves 'annoying' Vista security feature aside

Software developers claim they have created a tool to bypass User Account Control — an "annoying" security feature in Windows Vista, according to Microsoft executives. Read more »

Windows 7 pre-beta receives positive response

Microsoft on Tuesday offered up far more details on Windows 7, successor to the company's oft-maligned Windows Vista. Read more »

Google quietly updates Chrome

Search giant Google has quietly begun releasing a hastily prepared update to its Chrome browser to fix some security problems. Read more »

'Spammy' social network apps on the way out: Google

Developers of social networking sites are considering sharing blacklists of annoying and 'spammy' applications with each other in an effort to prevent users from switching off Web 2.0 technology. Read more »

IDC Web site defaced by 'eco-terrorists'

The Web site of Global IT research firm IDC has been hacked by a group purporting to be Brazilian environmental terrorists to serve a message urging people to take action over global warming. Read more »

Fighting Office with open source

Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology. Read more »

Symantec to help with Vista security?

Symantec is thinking up ways to take the pain out of a security feature in Windows Vista. Read more »

Microsoft learned from open source: Security boss

The director of Microsoft's product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community. Read more »

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A Java IDE for the Warrior in your code

Metrowerks CodeWarrior has a reputation as a great C++ IDE. How well does the Java version hold up the familiy honor? Read more »

.Net standards

The .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. ZDNet Australia looks at the structures of these environment assets and how they may be modified. Read more »

Architectural standards in a .NET environment

One of the most challenging aspects of being an architect is implementing your architectural designs in the development environment. Luckily, the .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. Read more »

HTML Shop of Horrors: Blink Tag

Today's bad tag is the blink tag. Designed to gain attention, it only gained the annoyance of visitors. Read more »

Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople

Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »

Dealing with differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape

An annoying problem with CSS code is the interpretation by different browsers. Here's a workaround to one problem: the differences in how variable-width floats are rendered in IE and Netscape. Read more »

Interview: The importance of being Erlang

He's one of the few developers in Australia with experience working in Erlang, the functional programming language which is gaining fans for its handling of parallel processing and creating distributed systems. We sat down with Andre Pang to see what all the fuss was about. Read more »

Reviewed: FrontPage 2003

We got our hands on a brand spanking new copy of FrontPage 2003 and decided to take it for a spin. With all the powerful new features and upgraded UI, this is definitely not your father's FrontPage. Read more »

Going long on Longhorn

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper explains why the upcoming OS is so important to Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry. Read more »

Build a carousel with JavaScript

Next time you are thinking about using Flash, perhaps you should consider Javascript to build a carousel. Read more »

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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 »

Google to allow third party code in Gmail?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »

And this one time at code camp...

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Attention Java Developers. At ease. Sun Microsystems are putting on one of the biggest developer days in Australia since I can remember. Better still, it's free! Read more »

Repent Open Sourcerers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Get more out of Safari with Debug mode

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Safari's debug mode can open up a few nice features like a JavaScript consol and mask Safari as Internet Explorer. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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