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Vista security to be 'obliterated' at Black Hat

An IBM X-Force security researcher has promised to exploit massive holes in Windows Vista's defences at the upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Read more »

Harvard University researcher punished for finding bugs

French security expert Guillaume Tena has lost an appeal and been fined in a closely watched case which could have widespread ramifications for the way security researchers publish information about flaws in products. Read more »

Microsoft boxes up Vista

Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer. Read more »

Eclipse lights up Java crowd

A little more than a year ago, detractors painted the Eclipse open-source project as nothing more than a ploy by IBM to sell its own software. Today, by most accounts, it's the center of innovation in the Java tools industry. Read more »

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Return resources to the system to improve .NET performance

A common problem in the .NET platform is the consumption of system and database resources when developers fail to clean up after themselves when working with a database. Read more »

Make managed code work with .NET's CAS

Developers and administrators can set permission and trust levels with code access security (CAS), while allowing the code to execute effectively. Read more »

Randomise your RSS feeds with ColdFusion

Learn some neat things you can do with RSS, including how you can use randomisation code to show a random selection of news stories from a random sampling of RSS feeds. Read more »

Managed code in SQL Server Yukon: a big deal?

One of the big features of Microsoft's next release of SQL Server is the ability to run managed code. How does it work, and is it a good idea? Read more »

Process the command line with CLI

Still writing code to parse command line arguments? In this article we look at using the Command Line Interface to get the job done. Read more »

Debug Web forms easily with the help of VS.NET

Debugging code is never fun. But the .NET Framework and VS.NET can make debugging Web forms as easy as debugging Windows forms. Read more »

The flash ROM boot loader

The flash ROM boot loader handles a number of key tasks for embedded devices that use nonvolatile reprogrammable flash ROM for their program code. Here's a look at the various boot loader actions you need to understand. Read more »

Gain SSL functionality in JDK 1.3

If you want to add SSL to your Java 1.3 applications, you'll need to work with some external packages to support it. Here's a look at the setup, along with the server-side code. Read more »

Review: Total .NET Developer Suite

Properly managing code production can make an application project. Total .NET Developer Suite is a third-party add-in for Visual Studio .NET that can give you an edge when it comes to creating reusable code. Read more »

Create wrapper classes with dynamic proxies

With dynamic proxies, you can create wrappers on the fly to prevent malfunctions and save tedious code repetition. Find out how you can use them. Read more »

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Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

Application Threat Modeling v2

[blogs:] -- Threat Modeling has become one of the most important ways to increase the security of your application development projects. It allows you to understand the threats you will face, and implement countermeasure in a consistent, reliable way. If you only do one thing to improve yoru development processes, Threat Modeling should be it. Now with the new ACE Threat Modeling methodology and tools, it's easy to do as well! Read more »

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  • Staff A first look at Windows 7 beta

    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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  • Staff 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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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    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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