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Google in Australia-wide hunt for top techie talent
Google Australia will this week run recruitment drives in Australian capital cities as the local arm of the software giant searches the nation for new engineering talent. Read more »
Australia attacked: What happened at Cyber Storm II
Communication between the private sector and government has been identified as the key lesson learned from the recent simulated cyberwar, Cyber Storm II. Read more »
Google Maps go embeddable, local in Australia
Google has updated the Australian version of its Maps application, which coincides with the search giant announcing that next week, it will update its global service so that maps can be embedded into any Web page using an iframe. Read more »
Oxer, Waugh retain Linux Australia spots
Incumbents Jon Oxer and Pia Waugh will keep their respective positions as president and vice president of Australia's peak Linux body for another year. Read more »
Google launches local election coverage
Google Australia have launched what they describe as a world-first foray into local elections, with detailed online coverage of the upcoming Australian federal election. Read more »
Linux.conf.au - Australian Special Report
As Perth plays host to Linux.conf.au--one of the world's largest gatherings of technology developers--Builder Australia takes you behind the scenes, in an exclusive special report. Read more »
Microsoft launches Aust .NET developer program
Microsoft Australia has this week launched a new .NET developer recognition program to entice developers to contribute more to the Microsoft development community. Read more »
SCO finalising plans for Aust Linux onslaught
Australia's corporate community will get their first real taste of the SCO Group's campaign for compensation for alleged intellectual property breaches involving Linux before the end of the first quarter. Read more »
AU developers to get MS betas next year
Microsoft is to release to Australian developers next year betas of its new operating system, Longhorn, its next version of SQL Server, Yukon and Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio. Read more »
Apple unleashes Tiger in Australia
Apple Computer said Wednesday in Australia the updated desktop and server versions of its operating system, dubbed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, would be available Friday, 29 April. Read more »
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Linux.conf.au day one: Less hype more code
A sold out Linux.conf.au 2003 started with the cheering of Linux users, hacks and hobbyists when Linus Torvalds was introduced suited up as none other than Tux, the famous Linux icon. Read more »
Ask Chuck: VB.NET and the QueryUnload event
This week Chuck answers a Builder Australia reader's question on the QueryUnload event in VB 6 and how this event is handled in VB.NET. Read more »
Tim Huckaby on TechEd 2003
Tim Huckaby, CEO of InterKnowlogy, MSDN regional director of the year and guest speaker at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Brisbane talks to Builder AU on this years event and life as a CEO on the road. Read more »
Australian Mobile Development Landscape
Slow networks, expensive data charges, and a plethora of technical problems have prevented the mobile phone taking off as a computing platform. Is that about to change? Read more »
James Gosling Q & A
James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Icons in a datagrid column
In this week's column, Chuck responds to a Builder Australia member's question on the easiest way to put icons in a datagrid column. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Displaying graphs in VS.NET
This week Chuck answers a Builder Australia reader's question on displaying graphs of database data on web sites using VS.NET. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Displaying graphs in VS.NET (part two)
As part two of Chuck's answer on displaying graphs with VS.NET, Alan Eldridge takes an alternative answer using Crystal decisions. Read more »
Tech.Ed Australia 2003
Microsoft's Tech.ED 2003 technical conference runs in Brisbane this year from August 10-13. Builder AU will cover the event live in this special report. Read more »
Can Borcon 2002 survive the event industry shake-up?
The IT industry conference circuit has been through tough times recently. Once-powerful trade shows have merged, become dramatically smaller and, in many cases, have disappeared altogether. It is in this uncertain climate that Borland Australia is set to roll the dice, playing host to the company's fifth annual conference, dubbed Borcon 2002, which is being staged in Sydney from July 27-30. Read more »
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Is software development international?
-- A quick glance across the developer agenda for the next couple of months sees a number of our industry favourites hosting the European versions of some of the events and meetings that have been staged stateside this summer. Read more »
Drop in on Builder AU at Open CeBiT 2008
-- Got a question on open source you need answered? Need a way to help convince your boss that open source is the way to go? Or just curious to learn what all the fuss is about?
Then drop in to the Builder AU Open Source Afternoon on Wednesday May 21. Read more »
Google Developer Day scheduled in 2008
-- Google has announced that it will host a free new event for developers in 2008 in Sydney. Read more »
Silicon Beach Australia
-- A group of Australian Web technology thinkers and entrepreneurs have started a new Google Group to build the Down Under version of California's famous high-tech development locality. They call it: Silicon Beach Australia. Read more »
Apple to preview WWDC 2006 to Australia
-- I got an e-mail from Apple's developer relations this morning saying they will be embarking on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in June. The two-hour seminars will take place in most Australian capitals and include information on technology to be released at Apple's World wide Developers Conference (WWDC), held every year in San Francisco. Read more »
Australian twitterati talks malware
-- It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service. Read more »
Google Developer Day yet to fill
-- Past experience would suggest that if Google restricts access then people will clamour for it -- remember GMail invites back in the day? It is therefore surprising that places for Google's Sydney Developer Day have not been snapped up. Read more »
Conference season open for Web developers
-- Are Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight, Google Gears, AJAX, and the semantic Web some of your favourite things? Now's the right time to put in that training request because May and June are full of great local Web developer conferences. Read more »
Schmidt happens in Sydney
-- The scene was set: harbour views from the Sydney Opera House and Eric Schmidt , the Chairman and CEO of Google, was about to front the throng of media assembled. Read more »
LinuxWorld Conference
-- The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is bearing down upon us! Read more »
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Sneak peek at Tech.Ed 06
In this picture gallery we take a look behind the scenes at Tech.Ed 06. Read more »
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Apple to developer: Fart jokes aren't funny
When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »
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Club Builder: Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox
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