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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 »

Major browsers bitten by security bugs

What do Internet Explorer, Mozilla's browsers, and Opera all have in common? Bugs. Read more »

Mozilla puts bounty on bugs

A string of high-profile flaws in browser software prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce on Monday that it would offer US$500 for every serious bug found by security researchers. Read more »

Study: Few bugs in MySQL database

A source-code analysis of the MySQL database, a popular open-source program at the heart of many Web sites, revealed few bugs compared with the number found in commercial code, testing company Coverity said Friday. Read more »

No security silver bullet for Vista: Microsoft

Despite extensive security auditing and development of Vista, the new operating system will not be free of bugs, Microsoft general manager of product security, George Stathakopoulos, concedes. Read more »

Critical flaws squashed in Firefox update

Mozilla has released an update to its Firefox Web browser that repairs a dozen security vulnerabilities, five of which are deemed "critical." Read more »

Development pressures compromising online security

The pressure to get e-commerce sites up and running by market-led deadlines means that security often gets overlooked in the development process, according to one expert. Read more »

Developers fast to fix open-source bugs

Developers have quickly fixed many bugs in popular open-source packages that were flagged as part of a US government-sponsored bug hunt. Read more »

Developer tool sheds light on Vista bugs

Microsoft is crafting a tool that will call out potential software conflicts with a security feature in Windows Vista that lets people run the operating system with fewer user privileges. Read more »

A banner year for security bugs

It isn't over yet, but 2006 is already a record year when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Read more »

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Diagnose Perl CGI bugs

Capturing and replaying Web transactions with Perl is an ideal way to trap and diagnose weird data problems that occasionally happen. ZDNet Australia examines what this technique entails and introduces a small module that shows some ways to put it to work. Read more »

Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET

In the wake of the recent PDC and TechEd developer events, Microsoft has decided to put some of its key executives out on the road to explain the innovations that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 have in store. Read more »

Configuring the corporate development environment

Builder.com looks at the three key elements of every .NET development environmentâ€"development workstations, development servers, and development procedures. Read more »

Gosling looks down Sun's open road

James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop. Read more »

Reliable software--"Mission Impossible"?

Sustainable computing may sound like a slogan out of the pages of a New Age manual, but there's nothing crunchy about the people behind it. Read more »

Ruby on Rails Explained

There are plenty of frameworks around but Ruby on Rails is a new breed, focused on productivity not language. Simon Jackson explains what makes it different. Read more »

Open source systems make business sense

Open source may not be right for every dev platform, but you should compare it with paid licence options. Here are pros and cons of using open source. Read more »

PHP, ASP or ASP.NET?

Local tech commentator Daniel Winter looks beyond the hype and FUD slinging to show you where and when to use PHP, ASP and ASP.NET for your Web apps. Read more »

Clickjacking: Potentially harmful web browser exploit

Clickjacking has the potential to redirect unknowing users to malicious websites or even spy on them. We all need to be aware of clickjacking and how to avoid its trappings. Read more »

Go to jail

Have you ever written buggy code or code that is not 100 percent safe? Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Read more »

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XO to run XP

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »

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