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Upstart could shake up networked storage
First came Fibre Channel, then iSCSI. Now, for the increasingly popular idea of using a network to connect storage to servers, there's a third option called ATA over Ethernet. Read more »
Microsoft brings .Net to Silverlight
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, has introduced a video-streaming service and .Net development tool support for Silverlight, its cross-platform Web browser plug-in. Read more »
Microsoft's "online" future a step closer?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pledged to open up Web services this year, however, full details are still up in the clouds. Read more »
Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET strategy has come to a standstill, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google. 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 »
NetApp files patent suit against Sun
Network Appliance alleges Sun Microsystems' ZFS storage software violates seven of its patents, seeks permanent injunction. Read more »
Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?
The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware. Read more »
HP and SAP to expand partnership
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced that it is expanding its partnership with SAP around new services with NetWeaver and service-oriented architecture, and that it has new enterprise solutions in development. Read more »
Sun and Quantum settle patent suit
Quantum has agreed to pay Sun Microsystems US$25 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Storage Technology, a tape storage company Sun acquired in 2005. Read more »
Sun, EMC ink development agreement
EMC and Sun Microsystems have agreed to a number of development projects aimed at ensuring the compatibility of their products, the latest joint effort in a longstanding partnership between the companies. Read more »
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ASP.NET caching strategies
The easiest way to improve the performance of your Web application is through effective caching. Discover how ASP.NET's built-in features make caching a breeze. Read more »
A primer on array-based and network-based replication
Replication helps protect your data and files by producing a duplicate copy at a second site, server, or storage array. I covered host-based replication in a previous blog. Read more »
What is '.NET' anyway?
Are you little confused about what .NET really is? You're not the only one. This article from Builder.com sheds some light on what .NET is and isn't. Read more »
Encrypting configuration data in ASP.NET 2.0
Learn how to protect data stored in a configuration file via encryption and describe new features available in ASP.NET 2.0. We'll begin with an overview of the encryption options and continue with the actual encryption of data values in a configuration file. Read more »
Create a temp file with VB.NET
Temp files are generally used for temporary storage and data manipulation. This is often necessary for storing user data, user preferences, session information, application cache, and many other types of information. Read more »
Simplify data caching with the .NET Caching Application Block
The Caching Application Block can save time and resources by caching Web services data for your distributed apps. It also offers a system for data security, expiration and scavenging, and a variety of storage options. See what the CAB has to offer. Read more »
Manipulate the Windows registry with .NET
Tony Patton shows how interacting with the Windows registry can be used to store application data for any custom applications you may develop. Read more »
.Net standards
The .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. ZDNet Australia looks at the structures of these environment assets and how they may be modified. Read more »
Practical .NET SOAP
Microsoft may be hyping SOAP as the next big thing, but it's really just a bit of XML. We'll show you how to work with SOAP to store anything from data structures to full-blown objects, all in VB.NET. Read more »
Architectural standards in a .NET environment
One of the most challenging aspects of being an architect is implementing your architectural designs in the development environment. Luckily, the .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. Read more »
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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 »
The most interesting Web OS experiment yet
-- I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS. 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 6.5Despite 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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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
2008/11/21 10:32:55
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
2008/11/20 10:58:20
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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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.

