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BEA snaps up small data-access company
BEA Systems has snapped up SolarMetric, a small privately held company that sells database development tools, marking its fifth acquisition in the past several months. Read more »
Security guru wants access to bug databases
Security expert Ross Anderson has called for empirical research to be conducted into whether open source or closed source software is more secure, and into the impact that development practices such as extreme programming (XP) have on code quality. Read more »
Google follows Yahoo lead into geo-search
Google has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information. Read more »
IBM pilot ad-hoc Java tools
IBM this week launched new software development tools available for free on the alphaWorks Web site for emerging technologies. Read more »
Transgrid embarks on key software project
Electricity supplier TransGrid has embarked on a major redevelopment of its outage management system, which plans the maintenance of electricity lines throughout NSW. Read more »
Oracle joins Microsoft developer program
Oracle has pledged to make its database software work better with Microsoft's development tools. Read more »
Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »
Oracle beefs up PHP driver
Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP. Read more »
Microsoft readies embedded database
Microsoft is set to release an embedded database for small devices, taking its first step in a plan to bring updates to its flagship SQL Server database every two to three years. Read more »
Oracle announces Database 11g beta
Company says beta includes 482 new features designed to add flexibility to database administration. Read more »
Features (316)
An alternative to inline SQL for ADO developers
Inline SQL statements make writing data access code easy but don't offer top performance. Stored procedures can slow development. Here's an alternative. Read more »
Is LINQ the future of database development?
The LINQ (.NET Language Integrated Query) Project is a Microsoft initiative to standardise data access across not only data sources but also development. Will it revolutionise database development? Read more »
The LAMP development toolkit
Need to dust up your Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL (LAMP) software stack skills? Our LAMP development toolkit is just what you need. Read more »
Upsizing an existing Microsoft Access database
The Upsizing Wizard in Microsoft's Access database software makes transforming to SQL Server mostly painless. But even the wizard needs fine-tuning for a smooth transition. Find out how to overcome some of the limitations. Read more »
Create JSP actions for efficient database access
Web apps are increasingly real-time, often fronting sophisticated server-side systems. This is reflected in database access requirements, which grow ever more complex. Combine JSP with JDBC to give your server-side code a doorway to your databases. Read more »
Grant Web servers secure database access
Allowing Web clients to access a database is a delicate matter that should not be attempted lightly or without careful consideration. Read more »
Supersize me-- Access to SQL
Access developers who have ambitions to upsize to SQL Server face several problems. The problem that's the most difficult to surmount is dynamic SQL. Read more »
SQL Server CE vs. Access CE
Looking for a robust database for your handheld or mobile device? Edmond Woychowsky takes a closer look at SQL Server CE and Access CE head-to-head. Read more »
Alpha Five: A prototyping tool to rival Access?
Could the relatively unknown tool, Alpha Five, beat out Microsoft Access as the king of the prototyping world? Check out our review and decide for yourself. Read more »
Use Jet's ShowPlan to write efficient queries
In large databases, an inefficient query can reduce performance to a crawl. The ShowPlan feature of the Access Jet engine lets you plan more efficient queries, optimise your database, and boost performance. Read more »
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Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers
-- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
Lets Shindig!
-- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »
How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2
-- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »
Salesforce's new AIR toolkit
-- Following the announcement that Salesforce will provide a free toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR development on its Force.com platform, I spoke to the company’s Doug Farber, the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific about its functionality and other issues surrounding the toolkit. Read more »
Adobe to set Flex free
-- Adobe have announced plans to open source the Flex platform in full under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL) by the end of 2007. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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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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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 »
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ZDNet.com.au chases Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer around Sydney during his recent visit Down Under.