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Microsoft to patch critical Windows, Office flaws

Microsoft plans to issue nearly a dozen security patches on Tuesday, including critical fixes for Windows and Office. Read more »

Firefox 3: New front in the browser war

Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »

Salesforce.com ditched Zoho for Google

Months before Saleforce.com and Google integrated their Web applications, Salesforce.com offered to buy Zoho, a direct competitor of Google Apps. Read more »

Microsoft plugs Windows worm holes

Microsoft on Tuesday in the US provided fixes for eight flaws related to Windows, including three that could be used to compromise a system without any user interaction. Read more »

IBM taps open source to improve patent quality

IBM this week is expected to announce that it won more U.S. patents than any other company and that it will participate in three initiatives to improve patent quality. Read more »

Apache generates J2EE buzz with Beehive 1.0

The open source Web application framework project, started from donated code, has achieved its first production-strength release. Read more »

Sybase sees RFID as saviour

The database firm wants to manage information sent in by remote devices. Read more »

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 »

Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in

Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »

Xamlon looks to beat Microsoft to the punch

Software engineer and entrepreneur Paul Colton thinks he can beat Microsoft by taking a page from its play book--literally. Read more »

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First impressions of ASP.NET's MVC framework

Find out why you may want to use Microsoft's Model View Controller (MVC) framework instead of Web Forms. Read more »

Why migrating Java apps to .NET may not be smart

Migrating from Java to .NET is not easy, and you might be better off with your exisiting application. Here are five reasons for sticking with Java. 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 »

Getting familiar with Regular Expressions

Within the .NET framework, Regular Expressions offer consultants powerful capabilities for their application development clients. Here's a look at Regular Expressions and how you can apply them to your work. Read more »

Ask Chuck:.NET user controls

This week Chuck takes another look at a Builder AU reader's question on user controls, this time focusing on Windows form controls in the browser. Read more »

Ask Chuck: Background colours of an ASP.NET web form

This week Chuck answers a Builder AU reader's question on the difficulty of getting a background colour to work on an ASP.NET web form. Read more »

.Net develops advantages over Java

Developers have a number of reasons for favouring one programming environment over another. For those attracted by good technology, .NET is worth a look. Read more »

Utilise client-side code in ASP.NET pages

In this article we'll explore the basics of client-side code usage and why it may be necessary. Read more »

Learn to read and write XML with .NET

Lamont Adams wrote a sample application to explain how to use the XmlTextReader and XmlTextW classes to work with XML documents. Read more »

Control presentation with ASP.NET 2.0's FormView control

ASP.NET 2.0's FormView control resembles the DetailsView control in that it facilitates the display of single records from a backend data source. Read more »

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Top 25 open source projects at Microsoft

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has consistently lowered the bar for developers, and Codeplex seems to be doing a good job of doing the same thing for open-source development on the Microsoft platform. Read more »

Down to Semantics

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    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 »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase 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 »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending 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 »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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