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System.Globalization namespace in .NET

The .NET Framework has built-in support for globalisation in its System.Globalization namespace. This namespace can help you build international support into your applications. Read more »

Enterprise Library updated to .NET Framework 2.0

Microsoft focuses on caching and security with the release of the Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. Read more »

Microsoft releases new Visual Studio and .NET

Microsoft has this week made its top development tool, Visual Studio 2008, available for download to its professional developer subscribers. Read more »

JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together

The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java Read more »

JBoss looks to keep things simple with Seam

The new framework is for creating apps that conform to leading front- and back-end Java standards. Read more »

ClearNova open sources AJAX tools for Java coders

Software company ClearNova said it will open source a toolkit designed to make Java programmers more productive writing AJAX -style Web applications. Read more »

Eclipse jumps from development to runtime

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the creation of a project called Equinox, an expansion for the open source group beyond development tools and into runtime software. 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 »

Oracle warms to Eclipse with open-source project

Oracle has proposed a project to the Eclipse open-source foundation to ease creation of high-end Java applications. Read more »

Oracle joins IBM's Java project

Oracle will join the board of the Eclipse consortium, an IBM-sponsored project to develop an open-source tool for developing Java applications. Read more »

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Setting up and using the Compact .NET Framework

The Compact .NET Framework is designed to help developers create platform-agnostic applications for mobile devices. See what you need to do to begin developing applications within this new arena. Read more »

Secure your .NET smart client apps with CAS

.NET allows code to be downloaded onto several workstations, which increases security concerns. Fortunately, the .NET Framework offers a solution--code access security (CAS). Read more »

Create distributed services with Java's RMI-framework

RMI allows one Java object to make a call to another regardless of where the second object resides. With RMI, you can create transparent distributed services and applications. Find out how to set up an RMI application in your enterprise. Read more »

Easily configure your Struts application

The Struts Framework can help abstract your back-end code from the display layer and keep your code reusable. See how to easily configure Struts. Read more »

Internationalise your Struts application

You may know how the Java-based Struts Framework makes your code easily reusable. Here's how Struts can internationalise your content. Read more »

Pick up the basics of .NET Framework multithreaded programming

Writing multithreaded .NET applications can be tough for beginning programmers. We'll show you how to create threads and how the syntax differs for VB.NET, C++, and C#. Read more »

.NET: A guide for managers

Here's an overview of .NET for managers who may not have had the opportunity to dive into Microsoft's integration framework. Read more »

Debug Web forms easily with the help of VS.NET

Debugging code is never fun. But the .NET Framework and VS.NET can make debugging Web forms as easy as debugging Windows forms. Read more »

Collect metrics in your Java applications

To simplify adding a metric-tracking capability to your applications, ZDNet Australia looks at a set of Java classes that can be added to any project and reference throughout the running code to accumulate data. Read more »

Retrofitting JUnit: Start testing older code

While best practice says that you write your tests at the same time as - or even before - you write your code, you'll probably have a body of code without tests. Here's how you add tests to existing applications. Read more »

Blog (18)

Google Developer Day scheduled in 2008

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has announced that it will host a free new event for developers in 2008 in Sydney. Read more »

Microsoft release Orcas beta and .NET framework 3.5

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- After two community previews Microsoft have released the first beta of their new Visual Studio development tools, code named "Orcas". Read more »

Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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 »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »

What to Expect in Java SE 7

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At the Sun Tech Days Australia Conference last week, I attended Chuk-Munn Lee's presentation "Java SE 6 Top 10 Features and Java SE 7". Here are some features we can expect to see in Java SE 7. Read more »

Adobe previews new Web dev tools

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Want to see what's in store for Adobe CS4? Public betas of Dreamweaver and Fireworks are available for download at Adobe Labs. Read more »

Adobe to set Flex free

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Adobe have announced plans to open source the Flex platform in full under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL) by the end of 2007. Read more »

Google brew Java with Ajax

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- This week Google released a new toolkit for Java developers to make writing AJAX applications easy. Read more »

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. 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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