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Microsoft launches Aust .NET developer program
Microsoft Australia has this week launched a new .NET developer recognition program to entice developers to contribute more to the Microsoft development community. Read more »
Microsoft exec: Wooing away Java developers
Microsoft's John Montgomery is out to persuade developers to embrace .Net. But the task promises to be a chore in light of recent legal wrangling between Microsoft and archrival Sun. Read more »
Taronga Zoo .NETting its menagerie
Behind the scenes at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, a small but determined group of IT specialists are working to use Web services to streamline the flow of many core business processes. Read more »
Guinness awards download record to Firefox 3
The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox. Read more »
Firefox 3 goes for Guinness, Australia declares love
The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, achieving a final tally of 8,290,545, and a six percent share of the total browser market Read more »
Aussie entrepreneur jackpots in Fujitsu sale
Australian entrepreneur John Orrock has sold his CRM systems integration business Okere to the US arm of Fujitsu Consulting in a multi-million dollar deal. Read more »
Bash + cmd = Powershell?
CommentaryMicrosoft's PowerShell looks to be a revolution that envelopes the advantages of both bash and cmd as well as adding a powerful new dimension to scripting in general. Read more »
Windows update prompts Skype outage
Skype has come clean on the outage which made its service almost unusable for two days last week, claiming the disruption was the result of a restart which stemmed from a routine Windows update. Read more »
Australian court rules against MP3 link site
Judges say now-defunct MP3s4free.net violated the law by linking to copyright music, even though it didn't host any MP3s itself. Read more »
Sun tries again with consumer-flavoured Java
The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development. Read more »
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Achieve pure .NET development with VB.NET
Are you confused by the choice of C# or VB.NET for .NET development? Most, mistakenly, think C# is the only viable choice. Read more »
Achieve common ASP.NET page functionality
In this article we take a look at ASP.NET 2.0's template page feature and how you might create base pages with inheritance. Read more »
What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud
In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »
How do I ... convert images to greyscale and sepia tone using C#?
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides developers with many different libraries that enable them to create and modify images. This article demonstrates two methods for converting an image to grayscale and sepia-tone using built-in .NET Framework functionality from C#. Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
Create a date/time value from date parts in VB.NET
When you need to put together a full date/time value from a combination of its specific parts, you can overload the Date object's constructors and assign the necessary date/time value parts to it. This tip shows how to perform the functionality. Read more »
The next generation of .NET certification
Microsoft's next round of certifications for the release of .NET 2.0 and related tools promises to better gauge an IT pro's experience as well as knowledge. Which is the right Microsoft certification path for you? 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 »
Exploring alternatives to Visual Studio.NET
Visual Studio .NET is powerful tool, yet it's often too pricey if you're in a smaller shop or working on a smaller project. Thankfully, there are a myriad of alternative tools available. Read more »
Understand how .NET can talk to OCI
To fine-tune performance, it's useful to understand how .NET can talk directly to the Oracle Call Interface (OCI). Learn how to speed up your app with this tip. Read more »
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Tools for the Semantic Web
-- This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »
Flash in the pan
-- So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. Read more »
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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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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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In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
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.