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Novell promises long-term NetWare support
NetWare and GroupWise will continue to be supported until 2010 and beyond 'unless market conditions determine otherwise'. Read more »
Novell, Red Hat ready Linux servers
Novell's NetWare-SuSE Linux combination is slated for completion next month. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is also due this summer. Read more »
Microsoft kicks off TechEd
Developers from around Australia have gathered in our nation's capital for Microsoft's eleventh annual TechEd Conference. Read more »
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 »
Mono-man brings .NET to Linux
Novell's Miguel de Icaza is working on a technology that he says can replicate Microsoft's vaunted software development platform on Linux. Read more »
Sourceforge hits 100,000 projects
The open source code repository has racked up 100,000 projects, thanks in part to the visibility of projects posted by 'leading organisations such as Microsoft'. Read more »
Windows 2007 server to omit WinFS
As test versions of the new WinFS file system were released this week, Microsoft said the technology would not be ready for the so-called "Longhorn Server" release, due in 2007. Read more »
Microsoft looks to students for TechEd
Microsoft is encouraging students to attend this week's TechEd 2005 conference on the Gold Coast by offering free tickets to the August 30 opening day. Read more »
Novell brands its own open-source religion
Novell is readying two major product launches meant to make its open-source software more palatable to corporate customers. Read more »
Builder's August Top Ten
Have you missed any of the hottest technology development stories published in the past month? ZDNet Australia's Builder channel can help you keep in touch with the top ten stories of August. Read more »
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Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs
Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »
Developing an Intranet with ASP.NET 2.0
In this two-part tutorial we investigate how to build a modular Intranet site with Microsoft's brand new ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Designer 2005. Read more »
First Look: ChartFX for .NET
Builder AU Technical Editor, David McAmis takes a fresh look at the new ChartFX tool for enhanced charting and graphing capabilities for .NET developers. Read more »
Developing Office 2003 solutions with .NET
Getting Office applications to talk to each other used to mean writing some VBA code. This sample VB.NET application shows you how to get started with .NET. Read more »
Ask Chuck: VB.NET and the QueryUnload event
This week Chuck answers a Builder Australia reader's question on the QueryUnload event in VB 6 and how this event is handled in VB.NET. Read more »
Client-side programming with Atlas
In this column, we survey the Atlas architecture to get a better understanding of how you may use it in your development work. Read more »
Creating custom Visual Studio 2005 code snippets
Reuse common code blocks in your applications through Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. Read more »
Avoiding Microsoft SQL Server 2005 deployment pitfalls
This tutorial shows you how to properly install Microsoft's SQL Server 2005, avoiding the pitfalls of an unsuccessful deployment. Read more »
Why VB6 still matters
Visual Basic 6 code is something Microsoft needs to take another look at if it wants legacy applications to play nice with .NET Read more »
Windows XP SP2 -- test your applications
Learn about the plethora of security enhancements included in Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as how these security features could impair the functionality of some applications. Read more »
Blog (20)
InAccess: Querying .Net
-- INAccess: Tales of woe revolving around the Access Database system Read more »
.NET doesn't have to mean VB.NET or C#
-- It’s funny... when people think about the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) they tend to think in terms of either VB.NET or C#. Read more »
Wireless theft -- what's the harm?
-- Hand up if you have logged in to use some poor schmuck's unprotected wireless connection to overcome a bandwidth drought? Read more »
Warning: ads to get more annoying
-- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »
Express Yourself!
-- Microsoft has released a community technology preview of the new Expression Web Designer, their new flagship Web development tool and competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Read more »
Certification Nation
-- Is a lack of certification really a hole in a developers resume? Are certificates become part of the way of life for software developers, or are we beginning to see the light? Read more »
Mono a Mano
-- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. Read more »
Website defacement and spam together at last
-- Fresh off the wires from IT Security firm Sophos this morning comes word of the hottest new trend in online pharmaceutical spam: linking to innocent, but hacked, websites which redirect to an on-line store. Read more »
Microsoft imagines a better world.
-- Fresh off the wires from Microsoft comes reassuring news that their international student software design and programming competition, the Imagine Cup, is heating up. Read more »
Worth getting out of bed for!
-- There some mornings I don’t want to get out of bed... Read more »
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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.