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Building quality code, not testing for quality

Involve quality in the entire application development process, instead of concentrating on it only from the software debugging stage, industry watchers have urged companies. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Walker Royce

Walker Royce is the Vice President of IBM's Worldwide Rational Lab Services; he is also the author of Software Project Management, A Unified Framework. Builder AU caught up with him to talk about the process of software development and where we are heading as an industry. Read more »

Microsoft to offer peek at new tools

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse this week of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. Read more »

Microsoft toolset to promote mobile Web services

Microsoft says that desktop developers will be able to transfer their skills to handheld devices using its new toolset. Read more »

Apple's Tiger search set to roar

Apple's latest operating system, which is still in development, is 'ahead of the competition' on search, claims Steve Jobs. Read more »

McAfee automates Google hacking

McAfee has released an update to its tool that uses Google to automatically search for security holes in Web sites. Read more »

SourceLabs creates automated open source support

System designed to speed up problem resolution. Read more »

KDE developers focus on accessibility

Developers behind the next version of KDE, an open-source Linux desktop environment, are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities, a conference has heard. Accessibility is a major theme at the KDE Community World Summit, currently taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany. On 22 and 23 August the summit held a Unix Accessibility Forum, bringing together developers and people with disabilities. Read more »

Gates woos developers for wireless

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday unveiled plans to help developers more easily create applications for mobile devices that use its operating system software. Read more »

Yahoo tool helps Web programmers shrink images

Yahoo, which has considerable expertise in maximising Web site performance, has long offered advice on how to speed up sites up by minimising photo size. Now it's released a tool to help Web programmers automate the process. Read more »

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Software development to become an automated commodity

Into the future, code generation will become more and more entrenched as software development is further automated. Read more »

Automate and extend Firefox with the Chickenfoot add-on

Chickenfoot is a Firefox add-on that allows you to automate user actions within the browser environment. It also lets you extend the browser interface to provide additional features to a Web page. Read more »

Automate routine tasks with Windows Services, part 1

Learn how to use Windows Services (formerly known as NT services) to program and schedule system tasks Read more »

Automate routine tasks with Windows Services, part 2

Find out how the .NET Framework's Windows Services (formerly known as NT services) allows you to program and schedule system tasks. Read more »

Three tools that make Java code review painless

Reviewing and optimising code is a task no developer is too keen on. Use these tools to help automate the process as much as possible. Read more »

How to validate forms with JavaBeans

What if your Web app supports too many forms to validate with hard-coded JavaScript? This server-side strategy can help automate the process. Read more »

What tools assist with your .NET development?

If you work on big projects in .NET you've got to have the right toolset. We all have our favorite applications, but which ones increase productivity and make our job easier? Read more »

Using Agile Software Development, part two

We've seen how Agile Development affects each developer individually, so now we'll look at how the whole development team adopts Agile practises. Read more »

Do you use wizards in your programming work?

Wizards are common development tools--but is that a good thing? We're looking for your feedback on this topic. Do you use wizards or avoid them? Read more »

Test Driven Development explained

This month Steve Hayes introduces Test Driven Development and its importance in agile development projects. Read more »

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Commidisation & automation of software

At the recent Gartner Symposium, we caught up with Daryl Plummer, Gartner fellow, who spoke about how software development will change into the future. Read more »

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You shall be replaced by a small shell script

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's roundup covers OSDC, Google's attempt to get school kids into open source, the roel of automation in software development, why we hate salespeople and more. Read more »

Database pros get tools in the know

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Microsoft has just released the eagerly anticipated Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (TEDB) which allows developers to build database applications in a team environment. Read more »

The last of the codeslingers?

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Is programming a transient job that's experiencing its last days of the Wild West? 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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