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Microsoft reaches out beyond .Net
The software giant has announced the .Net Framework Developer Center portal to help educate non-.Net developers in its technologies Read more »
System.Globalization namespace in .NET
The .NET Framework has built-in support for globalisation in its System.Globalization namespace. This namespace can help you build international support into your applications. Read more »
Novell ship version 1.0 of Mono
Company's open-source project aims bring easy-to-use .Net tools to Linux and other operating systems. Read more »
Ballmer: Nothing's rotten in Denmark
Steve Ballmer says there is a simple way to turn around Microsoft's money-losing enterprise applications business--make the whole world like Denmark. Read more »
Europe extends open-source resource
The European Commission is launching a resource for public sector organizations to share open-source code and applications. Read more »
Aussie IT jobs market still buoyant
There is still plenty of local work for skilled IT staff despite a global financial crisis, according to one of Australia's largest technology staff recruiters, but not much room to move in terms of higher salaries. Read more »
NetBSD makes cash plea
Developers of the highly portable operating system have made a plea for users to donate "cold, hard cash" to the open source project. Read more »
Cyberattack alert service helps Aussies Stay Smart
The Federal government has launched a new security alert service for small business and home users, aimed at helping Australians protect themselves from cyberattack. Read more »
Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 expected in June
Firefox fans looking for a major update to the open-source Web browser probably will get a final version of it next month. 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 »
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Cleaning up your ADO.NET mess
Although .NET eases the burden of managing system resources, you're not totally disconnected from the process. Take care to free your database resources! Read more »
W3C standards: The relationship between RDF and Topic Maps
In this article we analyse the background of both the the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Topic Maps standards and their interoperability. Read more »
Creating a Community with DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke is an open source CMS based on ASP.NET. Builder AU Technical editor, David McAmis introduces DotNetNuke and how to get it up and running in no time. Read more »
Architecting Windows CE applications using .NET
Will the .NET Compact Framework fuel an explosion of CE applications much as Visual Basic did with Windows? Find out what you need to start developing a CE app. Read more »
Return resources to the system to improve .NET performance
A common problem in the .NET platform is the consumption of system and database resources when developers fail to clean up after themselves when working with a database. 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 »
Analyse your managed .NET code with FxCop
Check your .NET code for bugs and compare it against Microsoft's design guidelines via the freely available FxCop. Learn more about this code analysis tool. Read more »
How do I ... publish a custom application performance counter in C#?
Since performance counters are a standard system function they are an ideal method for tracking the performance your applications. Luckily, Microsoft has provided several classes within the .NET Framework to publish custom performance counters. Read more »
Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class
The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »
Develop a fully functional site with DotNetNuke
The open source DotNetNuke framework allows you to create a powerful Web application using an out-of-the-box solution. Read more »
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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 »
Down to Semantics
-- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". 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 »
Newbie guide to Google's Android
-- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »
Mixed Emotions
-- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »
CodeGear Q&A
-- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »
The Team of One
-- Looking to implement Visual Studio.NET 2005 Team System? Before you get too far into training and implementing a new tool set, you might want to take a look at the development team itself. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.