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Microsoft explains seven-year patch delay

Microsoft has offered an explanation as to why it took the company seven years to issue a patch for a known vulnerability. Read more »

Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism

Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same notions. Read more »

Facebook botnet risk revealed

Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into elements of a botnet that in a demonstration launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server. Read more »

Google Chrome faster than Firefox, IE, Safari

Google introduced Chrome in part because it wants faster browsing and the richer Web applications that speed will unlock. So how does Chrome actually stack up? Read more »

Coder links Yahoo search, Google App Engine

The goliaths of the Internet are dangling an ever-larger supply of bootstraps for folks who want to try new ideas for the Web. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

Google Android's new battleground: Developers

Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices. Read more »

Nokia to acquire Linux firm Trolltech

Nokia is to buy Trolltech, the company whose Linux-based Qt application-development framework is at the core of many PC and mobile applications including Google Earth and Skype. 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 »

Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse

Microsoft this year will seek to distance itself from Java rivals with tools designed to streamline how Windows-based business software is built and used. Read more »

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What can ASP.NET Starter Kits do for you?

Microsoft's ASP.NET Starter Kits can help you roll out a full-featured Web site fast. But what are the pros and cons of this free Microsoft offering? Read more »

Don't underestimate passwords in Web apps

Password security for a Web application is a no-brainer for seasoned Web developers. But should you force users to enter strong passwords? Read more »

Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »

Apache's Torque project

Torque is an object-relational, persistence toolkit that generates all of the database resources required by your application. We'll help you choose a persistence layer for your application and explain what you need to start using Torque. Read more »

Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC

The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »

The benefits of the Web ontology language in Web applications

To reach the visionary goal of a Semantic Web, the W3C must develop a Web ontology language. Get an overview of this farsighted concept and contemplate the various use cases that make this language vital to the future of the Web. 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 »

Is Java Windows for Unix?

Java is an incredibly successful toolset -- but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular? Read more »

Getting to grips with GridBagLayout

GridBagLayout really can solve almost any interface layout problem and have your windows resize sensibly and more importantly, in the fashion that you wish. All it takes is a little forethought and some patience. Read more »

Sometimes a variables table is better than hard coding into a package

When writing PL/SQL packages, there are times where it's better to store a variable in a table instead of coding it into the package. It's most useful for a variable that you might want to change fairly often. Read more »

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Still many questions about software for mobile computers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The great thing about the development of future mobile computers is that no one school of thought has come to dominate the territory. Of course, that's also a problem. Read more »

The Downside of RAD

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Rapid Application Development is all the hype lately, with claims of being able to churn out functional applications in under two weeks. One popular technique is to lock end-users and developers in a conference room for 10 days and build the application on the fly. Read more »

In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! 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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