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Red Hat sued over JBoss technology

Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open-source software company. Read more »

Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans

We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level — Google Ocean. Read more »

MS, Adobe war in blogosphere

Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »

Big Blue backs PHP

IBM is to create a bundle including Cloudscape and Zend's PHP development tools, but insists it is still committed to Java. Read more »

Grid gurus launch a start-up

The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing on Monday launched a company to commercialise what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources. Read more »

Allchin to retire amid MS reorganisation

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping reorganisation of the company into three new divisions, a shift that will lead to the retirement of longtime Windows development chief Jim Allchin. Read more »

Microsoft to reveal more Longhorn details

Microsoft is expected next month to disclose more details on Longhorn, its planned upgrade to Windows, as the company looks to drive demand for the forthcoming operating system. Read more »

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Migrating Legacy Applications

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis, takes a closer look at the steps you need to take to successfully migrate legacy applications. 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 »

Take advantage of Microsoft's Application Blocks for .NET

Application Blocks for .NET include source code and sample applications. Take advantage of these tools and get a head start on your next project. 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 »

Do you need an application server?

If you're big on technology trends, you may be considering which application server to put in place. But the first question you should ask is whether you truly need one. Read more »

Visualise your database with treemaps

In this tutorial we show you how to generate a simple treemap to show which tablespaces have low percentages of free space and include a sample PHP script to generate the results in a graph. Read more »

Alpha Five: A prototyping tool to rival Access?

Could the relatively unknown tool, Alpha Five, beat out Microsoft Access as the king of the prototyping world? Check out our review and decide for yourself. Read more »

Use Jet's ShowPlan to write efficient queries

In large databases, an inefficient query can reduce performance to a crawl. The ShowPlan feature of the Access Jet engine lets you plan more efficient queries, optimise your database, and boost performance. 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 »

Desktop RSS with Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is currently in public beta; it allows developers to build dual platform applications for the desktop with existing Web 2.0 technologies including Flash and Ajax. Read more »

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Express Yourself!

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Microsoft has released a community technology preview of the new Expression Web Designer, their new flagship Web development tool and competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Read more »

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