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JavaScript tips to accelerate a slow Web app

We've got four simple tricks to help squeeze a little extra speed out of your JavaScript. Read more »

Put the Java Reflection API to work in your apps

The Java Reflection API enables you to take advantage of a variety of programming techniques. We'll show you how to inspect objects and work with arrays in the context of this API. Read more »

Tools for building Pocket PC Flash applications

Can you build real world Flash applications for the Pocket PC? You better believe it, and we'll show you the basics. 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 »

Hierarchical menus with JavaScript

Need a menu for your Web app? Builder AU Technical Editor, David McAmis explains hierarchical menus and offers a free code download to get your project started. Read more »

Gather Web server stats with a custom PHP app

You can't always trust the server statistics provided by a third-party hosting company, so developing your own monitoring application is a wise move. See how to use PHP to create a stats-generating app that produces reliable logs. Read more »

Programming for Cell

As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

The Seven Deadly Sins of AJAX application development

The AJAX bandwagon is a good place to be. It takes you to faster, more efficient, more dynamic apps. But it also has pitfalls all its own. Read more »

Interview: The future of mobile development

In the first instalment of our Web Directions South content, we ask mobile business experts Rob Manson and Alex Young where they think the Australian mobile development market is going in the near future. Read more »

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