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BEA woos nontechies with new software

Facing slowing sales to its traditional customers, BEA Systems is trying a new route: pitching its software to nontechnical businesspeople frustrated by the slow pace of IT change. Read more »

Open source adoption ramps up

Eighty five percent of companies are already using open source software, with most of the remaining 15 per cent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner. Read more »

UNIX group wants money to take on OOXML

A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Read more »

Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps

As Intel prepares for multiple cores in every machine, it is bringing new tools to the table for software developers. Read more »

IBM chides security researchers

Technology giant IBM has taken independent security researchers to task for their role in making information about unpublished computer attacks available in an undisciplined manner. Read more »

IT patent issues simplified for businesses

The revised European Patent Convention updates the original agreement with more flexibility, more legal certainty, simpler procedures and reduced costs. Read more »

Accenture: Embrace Web 2.0 cautiously

IT consultancy Accenture has advised businesses to accept Web 2.0 working practices but to beware of possible impacts on the IT department. Read more »

PHP-based content management programs under threat

Popular free and open source blogging, wiki and content management programs face a security threat in the way PHP programs handle XML commands. Read more »

Most Oracle database admins don't apply patches?

Around 70 percent of Oracle database professionals say they have never applied a security patch, according to database security firm Sentrigo. Read more »

HP rakes in cash from .Net

HP has earned hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two years from consultancy relating to Microsoft's .Net software. Read more »

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MySQL and stored procedures

Some people resisted using MySQL because it had no support for stored procedures. But starting with MySQL 5.0, that changed--now you can do stored procedures in this popular database. Read more »

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 »

Extend the reach of SQL Server with SQLXML classes in .NET

SQL Server 2000 provides XML features called SQLXML classes that are readily available without drastic changes to database design or related stored procedures. Here are a couple of examples of how to use these powerful features. Read more »

Introduction to the Mach-II application framework

Explore the power and flexibility of Mach-II--the first object-oriented application development framework built from the ground up specifically for ColdFusion MX. Read more »

Scalability vs. performance

One of the mental conflicts with building a scalable application is that all of the layers that we add for scalability hurt the performance of the application. Read more »

Mach-II vs Fusebox 4.1 for ColdFusion MX

Examine and compare the features of ColdFusion MX frameworks Mach-II and Fusebox 4.1 to determine which one is best for your style of application development. Read more »

.NET application blocks boost development

The .NET Framework is enhanced by .NET application blocks. Here's how to streamline your development efforts with this new tool. 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 »

How to build secure ASP.NET applications

ASP.NET provides several ways to protect your Web-based app from attack. Here's an overview of authentication, authorisation, and role-based security. Read more »

Handle Web app list data with this simple database function

While converting an aging, off-the-shelf ERP system to a Web-based application, a Builder reader and his team ran into trouble handling list data. See how they implemented a user-defined function to solve the problem. Read more »

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Adobe lead charge for a Java SWT port to Apple's Cocoa

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Reports out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week indicate a port of Java SWT(Standard Widget Toolkit) to Mac OS X Cocoa is being readied. Read more »

The Portal of the Future

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »

Database pros get tools in the know

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Microsoft has just released the eagerly anticipated Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (TEDB) which allows developers to build database applications in a team environment. Read more »

Another day, another patent threat

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Planning on building an AJAX application that will be hosted in the United States? First, you may need to pay for a licence if the latest patent debacle is enforced. 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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