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Rich media Web delivery patented
A patent for the design and creation of rich media services over the Internet, potentially covering Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax and XAML has been granted to America's Balthaser. Read more »
Microsoft readies Atlas AJAX tooling
By the end of the year Microsoft plans to release a commercial-grade tool for building AJAX-style Web applications. Read more »
Microsoft gets hip to AJAX
Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called AJAX applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics. Read more »
Software turns .Net to Flash
The race to build more-powerful Web-based applications could accelerate with the addition of software that lets Windows developers create Flash applications without knowing Flash. Read more »
Gartner: Web 2.0 to make waves in enterprise
AJAX, mashups, location-aware software and sensor mesh networking are among the key emerging technologies set to have a significant impact on businesses over the next 10 years, Gartner says. 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 »
AJAX gives software a fresh look
An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications. Read more »
OpenOffice gets business intelligence boost
Business intelligence software from Pentaho is to be integrated into the next version of OpenOffice, the open-source application suite. Read more »
Microsoft's CodePlex joins the online collaboration game
CodePlex will provide programmers with access to the source code of Microsoft's products. Read more »
Adobe plots its path on the Web
Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business. Read more »
Features (11)
Client-side programming with Atlas
In this column, we survey the Atlas architecture to get a better understanding of how you may use it in your development work. Read more »
AJAX and the Microsoft approach
Let's take a closer look at the AJAX revolution, including Microsoft's involvement and approach. 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 »
Special report: Tech.Ed 2005
This year Builder AU will be updating all the latest news, blogs, and interviews from Tech.Ed 2005 live from the Gold Coast. Read more »
Is Java getting better with age?
Scripting languages are catching on with developers, but Sun's James Gosling sees plenty of kick left in Java. Read more »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
Initial impressions of Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2008 was recently released to MSDN subscribers, and it's slated to be available to the general public soon. These recent developments spurred me to take a closer look at the latest version of Microsoft's flagship IDE. 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 »
Building on top of osCommerce
By choosing to modify an existing open source e-retailing system, Damian Hickey was able to accelerate the development process, but also took on board a score of additional problems. Read more »
Interview: Iain McDonald
Born and bred in Australia, Iain McDonald works at Redmond as director of the Windows Server Group. We caught up with McDonald briefly before TechEd 2005 to talk about the future of Microsoft's platforms. Read more »
Blog (16)
Google brew Java with Ajax
-- This week Google released a new toolkit for Java developers to make writing AJAX applications easy. Read more »
Digging deeper into AJAX
-- Lately I've been doing some further reading into how all this AJAX technology works. Read more »
The Adobe lab's abode
-- You may want to take a look inside some of the latest releases from the Adobe Lab. Read more »
XSS fun with Howard: Liberal Party says no
-- Political parties have no sense of humour. Far from being a revelation, it was merely reinforced yet again as both the major parties in this country had their sites fall victim to XSS. Read more »
This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+
-- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »
Has Google Crippled Gmail for Safari?
-- One of the true failings of Ajax is that it's a mashup of a number of technologies that relies on various versions of code to support various browsers - that it's not complimented by a single cross-platform runtime like the Flash Player. Google's popular Gmail is likely to be the most used Ajax application today, and it like other Ajax applications it suffers from the inability to offer true cross browser support, especially for Safari. Read more »
Geocode your photos
-- Flickr added geocoding to their photo sharing service this week, leveraging the mapping services of parent Yahoo!. After finding a location by either searching or navigating a map, users drag a photograph onto it's map location from within the online Organizr tool that Flickr provides free of charge. Read more »
And this one time at code camp...
-- Attention Java Developers. At ease. Sun Microsystems are putting on one of the biggest developer days in Australia since I can remember. Better still, it's free! Read more »
If the Riya RIA had a Flash UI, you wouldn't need this
-- A video piece on Cnet got my interest - a search engine that could recognise faces and text in images. When I decided to check it out I discovered that because the developers had chosen Ajax for their UI there were issues with cross browser/OS compatibility - Safari users need not apply right now. Read more »
Another day, another patent threat
-- Planning on building an AJAX application that will be hosted in the United States? First, you may need to pay for a licence if the latest patent debacle is enforced. Read more »
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