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Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps
As Intel prepares for multiple cores in every machine, it is bringing new tools to the table for software developers. Read more »
Laptop laws easier on US flights
Some travellers in the US will now not have to unpack their laptops when going through airline security, according to new guidelines released last week. Read more »
VMware apologises for licensing bug
VMware's chief executive has apologised for the disruption caused by a licensing issue which resulted in the company's latest hypervisors, ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2, not powering on after being turned off. Read more »
VMware Australia plays down bug
VMware's Australia and New Zealand division today said the local impact was small from a botched software patch that had left some customers unable to start their virtualised environments. Read more »
IBM chides security researchers
Technology giant IBM has taken independent security researchers to task for their role in making information about unpublished computer attacks available in an undisciplined manner. Read more »
Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »
UNIX group wants money to take on OOXML
A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Read more »
NASA hacker in final bid to fight US extradition
Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into NASA systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday. Read more »
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four. Read more »
Brazil joins OOXML appeal conga line
Brazil is to appeal the International Organisation for Standardisation decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500. Read more »
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Microsoft unveils the F# programming language
This article kicks the tyres on the September 2008 Community Technology Preview of F#. Read this brief overview of the programming language's features and environment. Read more »
Move SQL Tuning Sets between Oracle instances
SQL Tuning Sets (STS) capture the workload of an Oracle instance. Starting in Oracle 10g Release 2, these tuning sets can be transported from one instance to another to facilitate testing. Read more »
Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API
Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »
Moving the Tempdb and Master Database in SQL Server
This article walks you through the process of moving the Master and Tempdb databases to different drives. Read more »
Capturing SQL Server 2005 database file size information
It's very important to capture trends of the sizes of your SQL Server 2005 database because it allows you to plan for future space needs, notice types of problems, and plan for time periods of heavy volume. I'll show you the simple method that I use to capture this information. Read more »
Inside the San Fran network lockout
A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears. Read more »
Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »
Iterating through tables and databases in SQL Server
We look at two very useful stored procedures that live in the master database but are not mentioned in SQL Server Books Online. These system procedures come in very handy for jobs such as determining the space used, the number of rows, the indexes on the user tables, and so on. Read more »
Implementing the callback pattern in Java
A callback in programming is executable code that is passed as an argument to other code. The higher-level code usually starts by calling a function within the lower-level function, passing to it a pointer, or handle to another function. Read more »
Java security: Policies and permission management
This article explores three areas of Java security: security managers, access controllers, and access permissions. Read more »
Blog (13)
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 »
The Portal of the Future
-- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
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 »
Adobe lead charge for a Java SWT port to Apple's Cocoa
-- Reports out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week indicate a port of Java SWT(Standard Widget Toolkit) to Mac OS X Cocoa is being readied. Read more »
Daylight saving changes are standard procedure
-- Timezone data changes all the time, it's what governments do -- probably to keep the populace on their toes -- and yet we still survive. This time will be no different. Read more »
Getting extensions working in Firefox 3
-- If you've had the extensions disabled in Firefox 3, there is a way to get them going again. Read more »
How Microsoft dealt with GPLv3
-- The easiest way for Microsoft to avoid the snare of the Free Software Foundation is to step around GPLv3 and leave it to their partners -- this is certainly the case for Silverlight. Read more »
OS X + NFSv4 == SSHFS + open bitterness
-- Has anyone, who isn't a die-hard Darwin fanatic, ever tried to recompile their kernel in OS X? If you answered yes then you are among a rare breed of user indeed. Read more »
Google destroys Security Through Obscurity
-- Google Labs' new Code Search makes it easier for hackers to find database
username and password details by entering strings that are commonly used
within configuration files. Read more »
InAccess: Querying .Net
-- INAccess: Tales of woe revolving around the Access Database system Read more »
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Opera's MAMA offers search to web developers
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Mozilla fans can now play with the anticipated speedier JavaScript engine in the first beta for Firefox 3.1, as well as explore improvements to the Smart Location Bar and a slick interface for hotkey tab switchi Read more »
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CSI Tracing, Ballmer hunting and Bobcats -- Club Builder
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