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EDS embraces newest Siebel applications

Siebel Systems will announce Monday that the first company to complete installation of its latest customer relationship management system is IT services giant Electronic Data Systems. Read more »

MySpace launches Facebook-like app platform

In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night. Read more »

Future Web talk caught up in semantics

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future". Read more »

Oracle updates application server, Java tool

Oracle said on Friday that a new version of its Java application server and development tool are available with enhancements designed to ease back-end and AJAX-style Web development. Read more »

US$100m Apple iFund: Widgets need not apply

Venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) placed a US$100 million bet on Apple's iPhone on Thursday by creating the iFund. KPCB partner Matt Murphy talks about the iFund and the type of big ideas the fund is seeking. Read more »

Hasta la vista, Vista: The social OS is on the way

A recent study has asserted that the next generation of operating systems will link users to each other on an unprecedented scale as developers incorporate social networking into their platforms. Read more »

Is the Internet the new operating system?

Sites like Facebook and Google, which have evolved into Web platforms, are the wave of the future, according to a panel of top executives at this week's iMeme: Thinkers of Tec conference. Read more »

Microsoft pretties Office for business apps

Office Business Applications is meant to encourage third-party application providers to write code that will integrate closely with Microsoft Office applications. Read more »

Microsoft gets hip to AJAX

Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called AJAX applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics. Read more »

IBM doubles down on software services

IBM is in discussions with its partners to create a prepackaged set of hosted applications, a move that could ultimately create an online analogue to traditional packaged applications and spur market adoption of software services. Read more »

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Create a quiz app with XML and JavaScript

Follow the creation and evolution of a JavaScript-based quiz application as a developer satisfies the specified requirements for a client-side-only solution. Read more »

Flexing some muscle

Macromedia's Flex allows developers to create rich presentation layers for Internet applications using Flash. We'll show you how to get your first Flex application up and running. Read more »

Follow these steps to secure your data layer

A secure data layer is essential for a truly secure application. Learn how to nurture a secure environment for the pivotal Data tier of your application with the correct tools. Read more »

Basic rules for building and managing distributed data services

Take a look at how to build an application composed of multiple services and how to manage data efficiently in a distributed system. Read more »

Simplify .NET SQL queries with the DAAB

Microsoft's Data Access Application Block (DAAB) makes connecting .NET applications to SQL databases easier--if you know how to use it. Read more »

ASP.NET caching strategies

The easiest way to improve the performance of your Web application is through effective caching. Discover how ASP.NET's built-in features make caching a breeze. Read more »

Creating XML from legacy data

This article explains how to transform a nebulous application requirement into a flexible working solution. Read more »

Create ASP.NET pages from XML data

The server control in .NET allows you to insert an XML document into an ASP.NET page. Find out what classes you need to use and how you can try out this approach. Read more »

Deleting data from an ASP.NET DataGrid

Deleting data from the DataGrid takes some work. Find out how to create a delete button for the DataGrid and how to build a pop-up delete confirmation. Read more »

Creating custom Visual Studio 2005 code snippets

Reuse common code blocks in your applications through Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. Read more »

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Do you trust data in the cloud?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? 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 »

DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- There's been plenty of talk about data portability over the past few weeks, what with Facebook taking issue with a Plaxo script that imported user data from one social network to the other. But the news has mostly dealt with tiffing and squabbling -- until now. Read more »

Down to Semantics

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »

Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »

Microsoft's PDC Potpourri

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- While not game-breaking in their own right, these little titbits complete the picture from Microsoft's recent PDC conference at Los Angeles. Read more »

Opera's MAMA offers search to web developers

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Opera has created a new search engine letting web developers discover how web pages are structured. Read more »

How to Lifestream with WordPress

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Lifestreaming is the act of collecting and publishing all of your social networking activities in one stream. Here's the easy way to get started using your own install of WordPress. Read more »

Facebook developers to factor in age, location

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Facebook has announced modifications to its developer application programming interface so that the creators of third-party applications can restrict their reach by demographic -- more specifically, by age or location. Read more »

Install usability practices in your shop with Silverback

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Getting started with usability testing doesn't require an expensive lab full of equipment and science nerds in white coats to poke and prod your users. Cheap and accessible software is readily available to help your team create better software for end-users. Read more »

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Gallery: Jamming it with Web 2.0

"So what is WebJam?" the girl at the bar serving my mate and I a beer asked. She's thinking that maybe there's something to do with music happening tonight, but it's nothing like that. Read more »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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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