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A new event in programming?
A spinoff from California Institute of Technology thinks that software engineers--already awash in development tools--need another programming language. Read more »
Macromedia's Renaissance man
Kevin Lynch claims that when it comes to interactivity, Web application design is still in the Dark Ages - but there are innovations coming through which promise to drag web development into the 21st century. Read more »
Mozilla: Hackers control bug disclosure
Software makers are at the mercy of bug hunters when it comes to flaw disclosure, Mozilla's security chief said on Saturday. Read more »
Visiting CIO argues for more employee security controls
Staff disabling virus protection and not bothering to change their passwords are security threats too great to let slide, according to one leading CIO. Read more »
Inside Microsoft's new mobile browser
Microsoft still isn't quite ready to release its new mobile browser, but I did get an advance look at Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Mobile at a Microsoft event on Wednesday night. Read more »
Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free
Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. Read more »
Understand the ASP.NET DataGrid control
Need to get up to speed on the ASP.NET DataGrid control features? Try this introduction article on for size. 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 »
Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft
If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »
Australia attacked: What happened at Cyber Storm II
Communication between the private sector and government has been identified as the key lesson learned from the recent simulated cyberwar, Cyber Storm II. Read more »
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Sharing the event logic between controls in VB.NET
Whenever you write the code logic that may be used for more than one control, it makes sense to try to save time by creating only one procedure that will handle the event and perform that logic. Read more »
Extend ASP.NET with HTTP modules
While HTTP modules have been a part of ASP.NET since its inception, I still encounter developers with no idea of their existence or usage. HTTP modules allow you to process incoming requests and outgoing responses to and from an ASP.NET application. Read more »
Build reusable ASP.NET controls using events
One of the key improvements in ASP.NET its ability to build server-side controls and add events to these controls. Discover how to accomplish this using reusable, event-driven controls. Read more »
Use ASP.NET's Literal control to its full potential
One option of placing text on an ASP.Net Web form is the Literal Web control, which allows you to place and easily manipulate text within a page. Read more »
ASP.NET basics: Working with the TextBox control
Developers often overlook basic programming options in favor of new or cool ways to deliver results. This is true for many of the standard ASP.NET features. A good example is the TextBox Web control, which offers plenty of options for building applications. Read more »
Implement custom paging with SQL Server 2005
In previous columns, I covered the basics of using the .NET 3.5 ListView control and explained how to pair it with the DataPager control. Now I'll show you how to use these controls with a SQL Server 2005 backend to implement custom paging, in which only a subset of the data is retrieved for display. Read more »
Putting VB.NET's MonthCalendar control to use
Visual Studio .NET provides the MonthCalendar control, which allows you to select dates or a range of dates. The control is a convenient way to allow users to make a date selection. Read more »
Learn how to use the DateTimePicker control in VB.NET
Visual Studio .NET's DateTimePicker control offers a convenient way for users to make a date/time selection. We demonstrate an example which uses the control. Read more »
Using the ASP.NET Calendar control
Learn to use ASP.NET's Calendar control to easily build applications to display and manipulate dates, months, and years. We'll show you how. Read more »
Create a VB6 grid control your users can modify
You don't have to create special input screens to modify grid data. We'll show you an easier way and toss in the code too. Read more »
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Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5
-- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
Calling all testers
-- If testing is your thing and you have a Friday night or Saturday to spare, there's a free conference in Sydney that may interest you. Read more »
It's the hallway meetings that count
-- I was able to spend a bit of time at webDU here in Sydney last week, attending a keynote and presenting a session as well. This internet technology conference started it's life off in 2003 as MXDU and while originally Macromedia focussed it's grown quite a bit over time with sessions this year including, CSS, JavaScript, source control and Ruby on Rails. Read more »
Live Aussie Vista Launch
-- Live Blogging from the Australian launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the MCA in Sydney. Read more »
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Microsoft prescribes more RESTDetails have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »
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With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »
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Spellr.us needs a new dictionaryOne of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
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