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Brisbane hosts TechEd 2003
Code cutters around Australia have gathered in Brisbane for Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd Conference, to be staged from 10-13 August. Read more »
Judge halts Defcon hacking speech
A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system. Read more »
Expert: Hold developers liable for flaws
Software developers should be held personally accountable for the security of the code they write, said Howard Schmidt, a former White House cybersecurity adviser. Read more »
Leading the Web: not just for academics
WWW2006: Attendees at the Edinburgh conference were full of praise for the new balance between pure research and business applications of the Web. Read more »
Software should defend itself: Oracle CSO
Applications will have to defend themselves from attack in the future, according to Oracle's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson. Read more »
Microsoft--forget PR, clean up the code
Have you noticed that Microsoft is on the offensive? After countless months of reading press clippings about the pathetic state of Windows security, the folks in Redmond have decided to fight back with one of their strongest weapons--public relations. Read more »
That isn't lovely code, it's an ugly monkey
It is possible to develop secure code but only if vendors use a robust software development process and aren't afraid to call a monkey when they see a monkey, according to the retired chief scientist of the National Security Agency (NSA). Read more »
Microsoft Splitting Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft has announced they will be splitting their flagship developer toolset into multiple products when Visual Studio 2005 is released early next year. Read more »
Microsoft claims secure development success
A program placing strict controls on developers to ensure they build secure code is showing early signs of success, according to a senior executive from the software giant. Read more »
Microsoft criticises third party code for Windows crashes
Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code. Read more »
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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 »
Security in the Web 2.0 Era
At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Damian Conway
Builder AU recently caught up with the Australian Perl guru to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl, PHP, and the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne. Read more »
All about Longhorn
COMMENTARY -- Longhorn will be immensely popular once it is released, because Longhorn is revolutionary technology that makes desktop computing better. Read more »
How the Mac was born, and other tales
Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. 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 »
What hackers can teach you about security
He's probably the most infamous hacker of all time. Which is why we should listen when Kevin Mitnick says that traditional network security tools aren't enough to keep our information safe. Read more »
Secure your ASP.NET applications
Despite improvements over previous standards, ASP.NET still has its fair share of vulnerabilities. Use these tips from Builder.com to help secure your ASP.NET applications Read more »
ASP.NET security holes
Learn about the recently discovered holes in ASP.NET, and ponder who should be responsible for security. Read more »
The open-source techie who means business
Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »
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It's not lovely code, it's an ugly monkey
At the AusCERT 2008 conference in the Gold Coast, ex-NSA staffer Brian Snow, told ZDNet.com.au that software can be secure -- but only if vendors overhaul their development processes. Read more »
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Lets Shindig!
-- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »
Azure: A matter of trust
-- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »
The future remains yesterday
-- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
Virtualisation -- threat or menace?
-- It sounds like VMware's Rosenblum has this opportunity figured out, and I suspect that Microsoft's Virtual PC managers do too. It'll be interesting to watch this market develop over time. Read more »
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A first look at Windows 7 betaIn 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's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?
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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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.