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ICANN's custom TLD will be a 'nightmare'
The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned. Read more »
Microsoft patches may break Web sites
Two Microsoft security updates for Internet Explorer can break the functionality of Web sites that use certain custom applications. Read more »
Facebook to 'punish' bad apps
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a change in the social networking company's approach to its application platform when he took the stage at the F8 conference in the US today. Read more »
Microsoft gears up Web apps for big business
Microsoft detailed on Tuesday its road map and pricing for Web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Read more »
SMEs fuel AU enterprise applications market - IDC
Small and medium-sized enterprises are pushing the Australian Enterprise applications market up with rising demand for low-cost, integrated and functional application software. 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 »
Oracle updates application server, Java tool
Oracle said on Friday that a new version of its Java application server and development tool are available with enhancements designed to ease back-end and AJAX-style Web development. Read more »
US$100m Apple iFund: Widgets need not apply
Venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) placed a US$100 million bet on Apple's iPhone on Thursday by creating the iFund. KPCB partner Matt Murphy talks about the iFund and the type of big ideas the fund is seeking. Read more »
Gates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application
Developers will be able to create collaborative applications based on Office products, which Bill Gates claims will make them easier and more familiar for end users. Read more »
EDS embraces newest Siebel applications
Siebel Systems will announce Monday that the first company to complete installation of its latest customer relationship management system is IT services giant Electronic Data Systems. Read more »
Features (574)
Creating custom Visual Studio 2005 code snippets
Reuse common code blocks in your applications through Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. Read more »
Store .NET application settings in custom XML .config files
Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. ZDNet Australia provides these tips. Read more »
Using custom configuration settings in .NET
The .NET Framework makes configuration settings a breeze with XML-based configurations. Read more »
Gather Web server stats with a custom PHP app
You can't always trust the server statistics provided by a third-party hosting company, so developing your own monitoring application is a wise move. See how to use PHP to create a stats-generating app that produces reliable logs. Read more »
First Look: ChartFX for .NET
Builder AU Technical Editor, David McAmis takes a fresh look at the new ChartFX tool for enhanced charting and graphing capabilities for .NET developers. Read more »
How do I ... publish a custom application performance counter in C#?
Since performance counters are a standard system function they are an ideal method for tracking the performance your applications. Luckily, Microsoft has provided several classes within the .NET Framework to publish custom performance counters. Read more »
Application Lifecycle Management Overview
If you have a group of programmers, their managers and your customers, each with their own way of tracking where a project is up to and whether milestones have been met -- chances are you need software to enforce efficient processes and reporting. This is where application lifecycle management (ALM) products fill their niche. Read more »
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 »
Extend ASP.NET with HTTP modules
While HTTP modules have been a part of ASP.NET since its inception, I still encounter developers with no idea of their existence or usage. HTTP modules allow you to process incoming requests and outgoing responses to and from an ASP.NET application. Read more »
Scalability vs. performance
One of the mental conflicts with building a scalable application is that all of the layers that we add for scalability hurt the performance of the application. Read more »
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Charney: Customers the biggest hole in Microsoft's security
Microsoft customers need to better authenticate applications they install on their PCs, so the next challenge for Microsoft is to figure out how to provide that information, according to Scott Charney, the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Read more »
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The audience is the application
-- In a near-perfect feedback loop, the audience for software developers is now becoming part of the process, a primary development tool able to feed back its wishes and bend the outcome of developers’ efforts to better suit to its needs. Read more »
Application Threat Modeling v2
-- 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 »
The Best of Ballmer
-- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. Read more »
Be wary of the rip and replace guy
-- Ever come across a consultant, developer, or manager who wants to rip everything up and start fresh? Change may be what your business needs but don't be afraid to question their convictions before embarking on the new plan. Read more »
NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB
-- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »
Going the extra step but not the extra mile
-- I've always been a big fan of going the extra mile with error messages, it's a good way to show that you actually care about the product to take the time to customise it even when things are amiss -- and yes, things will go wrong, you will not create the perfect application. Read more »
Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5
-- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »
Facebook gives developers more detailed analytics
-- Facebook is announcing later on a complete revamp of the analytics system it offers to developers for measuring the performance of their applications on its platform. 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 »
Microsoft's Surface goes to Vegas
-- 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 »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the vision
A successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.