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Enhance applications with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

While the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions from Microsoft provides you with basic AJAX support, the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit extends this support by offering more controls and by allowing you to create controls. Read more »

Adding AJAX to Java with DWR

Making web-based Java applications more interactive doesn't need to be difficult. The Direct Web Remoting toolkit takes much of the hassle out of AJAX Read more »

Multidimensional arrays in Javascript

Javascript has no inbuilt support for multidimensional arrays, however the language is flexible enough that you can emulate this behaviour easily by populating your arrays with separate arrays, creating a multi-level structure. Read more »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »

The Web as a platform

As a gross over-generalisation, software developers don't care much for the latest trends in fashion. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. 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 »

Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

What are you worth?

What are the skills you need to keep in demand? We asked employers, recruitment agencies and training companies what skills will be in demand for 2006 and beyond. Read more »

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Helper Monkey to JavaScript's rescue?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- A new project by Sun Microsystems is looking to tackle the problem of maintaining and debugging JavaScript code by bringing DTrace's tracing framework to the Web 2.0 table. Read more »

Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »

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  • 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

  • Staff Adobe briefly considered its own browser

    Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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