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MySpace launches Facebook-like app platform

In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night. Read more »

Borland gets personal with new tools

Borland's Core SDP suite has analyst, architect, developer and tester modules to help cater for different aspects of application development. Read more »

Sun's Tiger aims to tame Java programming

Sun Microsystems has released an early edition of software that will form the underpinnings of future Java applications for desktop computers. Read more »

Microsoft pretties Office for business apps

Office Business Applications is meant to encourage third-party application providers to write code that will integrate closely with Microsoft Office 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 »

IBM spiffs up its dashboard

IBM is developing software designed to give office workers a window into corporate strategy, from the CEO on down the organisation chart. Read more »

Windows Live offers Microsoft a quicker turnaround

Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the next version of Windows, the software maker seems to crank out a new Windows Live service every five minutes. Read more »

Simplify your life with PEAR classes

Most PHP Web developers have heard of PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, but very few of them actually use it on a regular basis. Here are 10 reasons to get started today. Read more »

BEA woos nontechies with new software

Facing slowing sales to its traditional customers, BEA Systems is trying a new route: pitching its software to nontechnical businesspeople frustrated by the slow pace of IT change. Read more »

Google crawls into source code search

Google is taking its search expertise to one of its favorite audiences: software developers. Read more »

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Who owns your application code?

A company can get burned when it comes to deciding who owns the code to an application. Outside developers could cause trouble if the details aren't ironed out in the beginning. Read more »

Windows Application Verifier can help you build better code

If you're building an application, it's likely that you'll want it to play nice with Windows. Microsoft's Windows Application Verifier can ensure that your application will work with current and future versions of Windows. Read more »

Develop secure software at the application level

Protect your application from input overflow and underflow attacks, and from other common tactics with these development techniques. Read more »

Retrofitting JUnit: Start testing older code

While best practice says that you write your tests at the same time as - or even before - you write your code, you'll probably have a body of code without tests. Here's how you add tests to existing applications. Read more »

Getting .NET class info with Reflection

In this article, Builder.com walks you through two example programsââ,¬"a run-time class information reporter and a convoluted Hello World applicationââ,¬"that illustrate late-bound method invocation. Read more »

Improve site speed by preloading content

A key aspect of Web application performance is site response time. Here's how to boost performance by using DHTML and JavaScript to preload data. Read more »

Implementing taxonomy during development

Knowing that you need information taxonomy is one thing. Knowing how to build it is another. These tips will help you build a profitable Web site. Read more »

Easily configure your Struts application

The Struts Framework can help abstract your back-end code from the display layer and keep your code reusable. See how to easily configure Struts. Read more »

Collect metrics in your Java applications

To simplify adding a metric-tracking capability to your applications, ZDNet Australia looks at a set of Java classes that can be added to any project and reference throughout the running code to accumulate data. Read more »

Make your C# code more readable with comments

Application developers enjoy solving problems and churning out line after line of code, but the mere mention of documentation sends them running for the exit. Here are some tips for comments using C#. Read more »

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AJAX applications and security

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them. Read more »

Application Threat Modeling v2

[blogs:] -- Threat Modeling has become one of the most important ways to increase the security of your application development projects. It allows you to understand the threats you will face, and implement countermeasure in a consistent, reliable way. If you only do one thing to improve yoru development processes, Threat Modeling should be it. Now with the new ACE Threat Modeling methodology and tools, it's easy to do as well! Read more »

CodeGear ready Ruby release

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear have announced this week they will be releasing an integrated development environment(IDE) for Ruby on Rails developers in the second half of 2007. Read more »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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 »

Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- 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 »

Firefox 3 add-ons to make you a better Web developer

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Firefox might be a fast browser but it's extensions can transform it into a powerful development tool for Web developers and designers. Here are 10 of the best to get you started. Read more »

Google Developer Day scheduled in 2008

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has announced that it will host a free new event for developers in 2008 in Sydney. Read more »

The Portal of the Future

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »

Microsoft's Surface goes to Vegas

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This might not be what Bill Gates originally envisioned with his "information at your fingertips" concept, but in Las Vegas, the Rio hotel will unveil a new Surface computer application called Flirt, that will let bar patrons "interact" with each other through video cameras and text messages. Read more »

What to Expect in Java SE 7

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At the Sun Tech Days Australia Conference last week, I attended Chuk-Munn Lee's presentation "Java SE 6 Top 10 Features and Java SE 7". Here are some features we can expect to see in Java SE 7. Read more »

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Gnome 2.16 Preview

With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »

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