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Google debuts Gears for Firefox 3

Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon. Read more »

Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser

A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »

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Java Web Start splits the difference between apps and applets

Sun's Web Start offers an easy way to deploy Java applications by adapting the best traits of applets and applications. Find out how Web Start works and how you can roll it out. Read more »

Evaluate the hidden enterprise design tasks before committing to an API

Here are the reasons why the right API choice can make complex enterprise application development run more smoothly. Read more »

Create JSP actions for efficient database access

Web apps are increasingly real-time, often fronting sophisticated server-side systems. This is reflected in database access requirements, which grow ever more complex. Combine JSP with JDBC to give your server-side code a doorway to your databases. Read more »

Install, configure and integrate PHP and MySQL on Windows

PHP and MySQL are a powerful combination when it comes to providing dynamic content to your user base. Get the step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring these products in a Microsoft Windows environment. Read more »

What's new in Windows Vista?

Don't want to take Windows Vista for a test drive until you know what it has to offer? Join Windows expert Deb Shinder for a visual tour of Beta 2 as she points out some of the more dramatic changes and shares her impressions of the new OS. Read more »

Mandrake Linux's libDrakx

Mandrake's libDrakx allows you to create GUI or text interfaces with relative ease, especially if you have some Perl under your belt. We'll work through creating a simple window, as well as a more complex list interface. Read more »

Maintain your Web site data on your Pocket PC using SQL Server CE

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 CE Edition is an enterprise-level DBMS that can be deployed on any Pocket PC device. We'll show you how to administer a SQL Server-driven Web site using a Pocket PC, including replicating data back and forth between servers. Read more »

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When simplifying becomes patronising

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Assumption is the mother of many things, and it allows well-intended simplification to go a step too far 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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