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Mashups conquer charts at Lotusphere

At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM showed off an early version of Lotus Mashups, a tool designed to let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, quickly assemble Web applications. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

BEA packages Web application tools

BEA Systems released this week a new all-in-one package to help software partners create and install Web applications more quickly. Read more »

Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »

Next NASA mission: Twitter and Facebook

Some executives believe that adoption of Web technologies like Twitter will help the public be more connected to space exploration. Read more »

Australia to get .pro domains?

The organisation behind .pro has received approval to make the top-level domain available to users "anywhere in the world". Read more »

Businesses advised to register .asia domains

Companies with an Asian presence should consider registering .asia domain names to prevent cybersquatting, internet registries have argued Read more »

Domain for mobile devices hits the Web

The domain, .mobi, is designed to spur use of the Internet on mobile devices â€" but some fear it will have the opposite effect. Read more »

Domain registration rules face change amid protests

Australia's Internet domain name regulator is considering changing the rules governing how certain domain names are allocated after reports some companies and individuals may be exploiting the current system. Read more »

Australian domain policy faces radical shakeup

The .au domain administration body (auDA) said last night it planned to sell off previously-prohibited geographically-based domain names in the .com.au and .net.au spaces in AU$500 bundles, as well as implementing a host of other significant changes. Read more »

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Add stability to your ASP.NET applications with AppDomains

This article explains the concept of an application domain within ASP.NET, a security feature of the .NET framework. Read more »

Commonly used architectural patterns in Java applications

This article uses two patterns, layering and partitioning, to illustrate the importance of the relationships between the packages that compose your applications. Read more »

Create powerful Flash applications with shared objects

Learn how to leverage shared objects to create more robust Flash 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 »

Commonly used architectural patterns in Java apps

Properly designing packages promotes the design and development of resilient, robust, and maintainable Java applications. 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 »

Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates. Read more »

Add XML functionality to your Flash movies

You already know that XML enables data to move easily between applications. Now see how you can integrate XML and Flash for some powerful effects. Read more »

Speculation about Microsoft's mysterious X#

Although mentioned as an afterthought, X# has been the subject of much speculation in the XML community, and justifiably so, because it may change the way you create applications. Read more »

Make the most of HTTP headers

By understanding how to take advantage of the information in HTTP headers, you can build more effective Web applications. Here's what you need to know. Read more »

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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 »

Cinergix waves Australian flag

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Just one Australian start-up appears to have made the final cut for the US-based DEMO and TechCrunch50 conferences this week: Melbourne-based firm Cinergix, which has produced an online collaborative process design tool dubbed Creately. Read more »

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 »

Simonyi tells programmers to leave the Dark Ages

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Charles Simonyi -- legendary Microsoft programmer and space tourist -- doesn't have many good things to say about the current state of his own profession, software engineering. Read more »

Programmers in India prefer Google's Orkut

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google's Orkut social network isn't just big in Brazil. It's also popular in India, especially among software developers, according to a new survey. Read more »

Is facesquatting becoming a problem?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Could name squatting on Facebook applications become a new litigious area for the Web? Read more »

Unlocking the Wii's hidden potential

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In a collection of videos, notable for their lucid explanations, Johnny Lee, a Ph.D. graduate student from CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute shows exactly how versatile the "Wiimote" system can be 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

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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 »

    -- 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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