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Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability

Safari users are at risk of littering their desktops with malicious software because the browser does not ask for user permission when downloading files. Read more »

IT services giants face slowing growth

But smaller and India-based players on the up. Read more »

OO pioneer Alan Kay hit by HP cull

HP has slashed four projects and is preparing to say goodbye to Alan Kay, who developed Smalltalk. Read more »

Lotus flaw reported - but IBM's unfazed

A flaw in IBM's Lotus Domino Server could be used to crash systems, a security company has warned, but Big Blue is shrugging off the report. Read more »

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How do I assign permissions to users to see SQL Agent Jobs?

You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server. Read more »

Mono 2.0: .NET goes non-Windows

We interview Miguel de Icaza, VP of Development Platforms and a founder of Mono to find out what is and is not included in the latest release. Read more »

Avoid problems when redirecting via drop-down lists

One of the most important skills a developer needs is the ability to debug and fix problematic code whether it is their own or another developer's handiwork. This article shows how to solve a problem involving redirection and drop-down lists. Read more »

Why traditionalists should take Web developers seriously

There used to be a sharp distinction between application developers and Web developers. This made sense when technologies such as Perl/CGI, classic ASP, standard JSP, and PHP ruled the Web development roost. But this distinction is becoming less relevant. Read more »

HTTP and HTML: The paradox of dominance

The saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail," makes me think of the mess that we're in when it comes to the dominance of HTML and HTTP. Read more »

Detect intruders on your network with Snort

Snort is a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), which can view and analyse packets on a network to determine whether or not a system is being attacked by remote. Read more »

Troubleshoot Apache with these tips

The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »

J2EE Servers Stink

Our project is behind schedule. My other projects are now way behind schedule. And it's all because of the complexity and low quality of J2EE servers. Read more »

Sourceforge Community Choice Award winners are....

Sourceforge has been running a community-driven awards process over the last month, trying to discover the top open source projects. The ones selected say a lot about those who frequent Sourceforge. 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 »

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Conference season open for Web developers

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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 »

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    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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