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Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of businesses
Thousands of businesses were left without access to their applications Tuesday after Salesforce.com's servers suffered a service disruption. Read more »
Windows 7 beta: We like it
Windows 7 will be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfils the promise shown by the unofficial beta version we have been testing for the past couple of days. Read more »
DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool. Read more »
Microsoft details PC-as-a-service vision
Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing — a vision which the software giant claims would benefit suppliers and PC users, despite a likely higher cost of ownership to consumers. Read more »
IT security: The trends to watch in 2009
In the arms race between security specialists and threats, it's hard enough keeping up with advisories, warnings of potential problems and new philosophies of safe IT, let alone mixing in the rapidly changing technological and economical implications of the connected environment. Read more »
Microsoft warns of SQL Server vulnerability
Microsoft issued an advisory late Monday confirming a remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line. Read more »
Adobe AIR for Linux exits beta
Adobe this week took the Linux version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime product out of beta, bringing it up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users. Read more »
Avoid using IE if possible: AusCERT
Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) has recommended organisations "consider using a web browser other than Internet Explorer until a patch becomes available" — an option that many large firms cannot seriously consider. Read more »
Microsoft releases its first iPhone app
Engineers in Microsoft's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's iPhone, even before making it available on Window Mobile. Read more »
Zero-day exploit endangers all IE versions
An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicised, Microsoft says. Read more »
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Why 2008 was another great year in web technology
This article offers a look back at web development software updates and new products in 2008, with an eye toward 2009. It discusses SOA, mobile development, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, Python, and more. Read more »
Visualise data with new Microsoft controls
If you ever work on projects that require charting functionality, you'll want to check out the Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET 3.5. This article explains how to get and use this new control. Read more »
What is in your toolbelt?
As a DBA, you probably have several tools to help you in a bad spot. Have you heard of SQL Professional Toolbelt? It can be a handy addition to keep your SQL Server humming. Read more »
Avoid problems by regularly checking site links
During regular site maintenance, you should validate links to make sure users don't experience problems while using the application. Find out about tools to automate this process, and get tips on how to fix broken links and deal with inbound links. Read more »
Turning over the desktop: VDI, Terminals and more
This article talks about some of the reasons you might consider VDI. Here, he'll go over some of the ways by which a VDI implementation takes form. Read more »
Introducing Flash Catalyst
At MAX 2008, Adobe demonstrated and distributed to attendees a preview release of Flash Catalyst, the Rich Internet Application (RIA) interaction design tool formerly known as Thermo. Read more »
MAX 08: Adobe lays out future directions
At Adobe's MAX conference this year -- Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch identified three trends that Adobe will address: client and cloud computing, devices and desktop computing, and social computing. Read more »
Improve MySQL performance with MySQLTuner
This article covers the basics of the MySQL Tuner tool, which analyses your configuration and suggests changes that will boost the performance of your MySQL installation. Read more »
Getting started with Firefox Extensions
No browser is perfect -- eventually enough annoyances will build up to the point that you wish you could do something about it. Thanks to Firefox's extendable architecture and a healthy dose of JavaScript knowledge, you can begin bending the browser to your will. Read more »
Microsoft embraces open source with jQuery
Microsoft plans to integrate the JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET Model View Controller frameworks. This article outlines how jQuery may work within an ASP.NET application. Read more »
Video (32)
Behind the Apple-Google API dustup
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone. What are the implications for developers and for users? Join Charles Cooper and Tom Krazit on the CNET News Daily Debrief. Read more »
How I build cool stuff for government
Diana Mounter's second place-getting presentation is on how to build cool applications for local government (and she's not even a developer). Read more »
TurnTubeList -- Party-mixing Youtube
Mr Speaker was the winner of Webjam8 with TurnTubeList: a web application that allows DJ-like mixing of YouTube tracks. Read more »
Adobe Creative Suite 4
Adobe is updating Photoshop along with more than a dozen tools for editing images, Web sites, animation, movies, desktop applications, and print layouts. Read more »
Performance and large scalable applications
Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, describes the factor that developers should think about when creating large applications that have good scalable performance. Read more »
Avoiding security risks with AIR
Being a native application, AIR needs far more security than a typical Flash application. Mike Downey, principal evangelist, Adobe, discusses the extra steps Adobe had to take with AIR. Read more »
Making Windows Live services more open
Angus Logan describes how Microsoft is opening its web applications with more APIs Read more »
Charney: Customers the biggest hole in Microsoft's security
Microsoft customers need to better authenticate applications they install on their PCs, so the next challenge for Microsoft is to figure out how to provide that information, according to Scott Charney, the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Read more »
Charney: App vendors are the weakest security link
Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Read more »
Blog (190)
Unlocking Android
-- In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »
Is the Web cam the next input device?
-- We've all seen the future of interfaces in movies like Ironman and the Minority report but what can you do today? How about gestures via a Webcam? Read more »
Tools for the Semantic Web
-- This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »
Google faces down Apple
-- What's the point in following Apple's rules on the iPhone SDK if other developers will just flaunt them? We check the answer out and cover the other issues from the week: OLPC, IE, Ballmer and the Internet in space. Read more »
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 »
Adobe briefly considered its own browser
-- Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »
Will Microsoft build native Mac and Linux tools?
-- If the future is in Microsoft's online services why isn't the company building native tools for Mac and Linux developers? Read more »
Be wary of the rip and replace guy
-- Ever come across a consultant, developer, or manager who wants to rip everything up and start fresh? Change may be what your business needs but don't be afraid to question their convictions before embarking on the new plan. Read more »
Down to Semantics
-- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »
The Best of Ballmer
-- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. 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 »
LCA Open Day
Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »
Gnome 2.16 Preview
With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »
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Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.