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JobWatch: What goes up is now coming down

The sharp rise in demand for IT skills throughout 2007 is well and truly in retreat according to the latest figures from the Olivier Job Index. Read more »

Java eyes Longhorn look

Sun Microsystems announced today the next version of Java will be Longhorn-ready. Read more »

Aust political party Web sites still not good enough: Hiser

Two weeks before the end of the campaign period, six of the major Australian political parties Web sites are still missing opportunities to attract swinging voters to their cause, according to interface designing company Hiser Group. Read more »

GNOME: We've overtaken Windows, bring on Apple

An upgraded GNOME desktop environment for Linux and Unix is due for release this Wednesday, with its authors pitching enhanced features for end-users and a commitment to make hardware "just work". Read more »

IBM strikes at SCO claims

IBM has taken another swing at the SCO Group's faltering attack on Linux, filing a motion seeking dismissal of SCO's contract claims. Read more »

AUUG claims conference boost

The Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) has come out swinging after conceding its membership is in decline, announcing significant increases in sponsorship and registrations for its annual national conference next month. Read more »

Sun's McNealy swings at rivals

Scott McNealy, the Sun Microsystems chief executive who has become something of a punching bag as his company fights back to profitability, threw some punches of his own on Tuesday. Read more »

Sun tinkers with its programming tools

Sun Microsystems is seeking to build momentum in its programming tools business with updates to its different products. Read more »

IBM donates code to Eclipse

IBM has donated source code to an open-source project in an effort to create more sophisticated development tools for building graphical interfaces. Read more »

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Asia's open source hangup

One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. 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 »

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 »

Sanity check: Five reasons to centralise your IT department

This article takes a look at the top five arguments for centralisation of your IT department. Read more »

Process multimedia with the Java Media Framework API

The Java Media Framework (JMF) API allows developers to process media in many different ways. It deals with real-time multimedia presentations and effects processing. Read more »

How to start using the features in Java OpenGL

This article offers an overview of the main features of JOGL and provides some insight about how to use them. See the image below, which is a screenshot of OpenGL rendering using JOGL. This is a demonstration of refraction and mirroring effects. Read more »

10 Perl modules all Java developers should know

Just like Perl , Java has been around for a while. However, Perl is a scripting language and Java is a true object-oriented language ... which perhaps explains why Java and Perl programmers don't usually hang out at the same bars. Read more »

10 ways to be more persuasive and win your case

This article shows 10 tips on how you can persuade people. Read more »

Introducing JavaFX: Sun's new family of Java-based products

JavaFX is a new family of products and technologies from Sun Microsystems that you can use to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). JavaFX currently consists of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile; other JavaFX products are planned for release in the future. Read more »

JRuby: An Introduction

JRuby is a 100 percent Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, and while it does not have all the features of Ruby it does have most of built-in classes of the language. Read more »

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AusCERT 2008: Behind the scenes

ZDNet.com.au's Matt Oxley takes you behind the scenes at Australia's largest security conference. Find out why Microsoft's head of product security was afraid of being arrested, watch delegates swing at sheep on the driving range and discover who thinks security is like being chased by a bear — or is it a dog? Read more »

Blog (9)

Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

Sun's JavaFX RIA platform MIA?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Adobe and Microsoft have taken the early lead in the RIA market but Sun is still waiting to get out of the starting blocks with JavaFX. Is Sun too late to the party? Read more »

Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. Read more »

Adobe lead charge for a Java SWT port to Apple's Cocoa

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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 »

Dealing with the ego elephant in the room

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Egomaniacs, swell-heads, know-it-alls, showboats, show ponies, narcissists, ego-trippers, big heads, and peacocks – work with one of these? Read more »

How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »

What to Expect in Java SE 7

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At the Sun Tech Days Australia Conference last week, I attended Chuk-Munn Lee's presentation "Java SE 6 Top 10 Features and Java SE 7". Here are some features we can expect to see in Java SE 7. Read more »

Tech.Ed 06 looking good

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I've been down at Microsoft's Tech.Ed 06 conference this week, where 2600 devotees are wandering around, attending sessions and getting up to speed on the latest from Redmond. Oh, and playing a bit of Xbox 360 while they're there. Read more »

Keeping up with the Joneses

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- Microsoft has opened up its Virtual Server 2005 R2 software to run Linux. But why? Read more »

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