News (10)

Google sets Bigtable for free life in the cloud

Web developers will soon be able to host their applications on Google's infrastructure for free — up to a point. Read more »

Developers want Ballmer to show money

Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »

Is Google's App Engine a lock-in honeypot?

Some developers fear that Google is aiming to lock them into to the App Engine platform — Google's application hosting service — but Google refutes any claim it has evil intentions. Read more »

Coder links Yahoo search, Google App Engine

The goliaths of the Internet are dangling an ever-larger supply of bootstraps for folks who want to try new ideas for the Web. Read more »

Google open sources XML-alternative Protocol Buffers

XML, it seems, has run out of steam for Google. Google said Monday that it has created an open source project for a data interchange format called Protocol Buffers. Read more »

Google courts open-source developers

Google has launched a new site intended to serve as a central resource for developers working on applications related to the popular search engine. Read more »

Silverlight update fights back against Adobe's AIR

On Monday, Adobe released the long-awaited AIR download for running Web applications offline, but Microsoft is readying an update to its Silverlight platform that it hopes will keep Web developers in its camp. Read more »

The History of Builder AU

Builder AU has turned five and it's time to look back and see how we got here. Read more »

Sydney duo plot end of Post-it notes

After more than a year in development, two Sydney-based developers have launched their online solution to the paper-based 'to-do' list using advanced Web development techniques. Read more »

Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming

Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? Read more »

Features (5)

Using Google as an application platform

Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »

Java on Google App Engine? Not yet

Reports out of a Google developer conference in India indicated that Google was primed to add support for Java programs running on its presently Python-only Google App Engine. Read more »

A Quick Start to Python

With the final release of Python 2.5 we thought it was about time Builder AU gave our readers an overview of the popular programming language. Builder AU's Nick Gibson has stepped up to the plate to write this introductory article for beginners. Read more »

One virtual machine to rule them all

The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language -- it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby, Python with PHP to follow shortly. Read more »

A look inside Google's open source kitchen

Google's Chris DiBona says the search giant has a lot of involvement in open source, but is also a firm believer in proprietary software. Read more »

Blog (8)

AppEngine: Google's Python boost

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- I'm sure I am not the only person who will be learning a thing or three about Python due to AppEngine curiosity -- for that, Python should give Google thanks. Read more »

Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project. Read more »

OpenAndroid: a Google geek's delight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Between OpenSocial and Android, did anyone manage not to hear about Google this week? Read more »

How useful is OpenSocial?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's coverage was all over the local MySpace developer launch, we took a look at Google's AppEngine, had more videos than we knew what to do with and can someone put us out of our misery buy Yahoo already! Read more »

How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »

Google App Engine meets Amazon EC2

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- What do you get when you cross Amazon's EC2 on-demand cloud computing infrastructure with Google's new App Exchange foundation for Web applications? Read more »

Azure: A matter of trust

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »

Do you trust data in the cloud?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »

Log in


Sign up | Forgot your password?

Blogs

RSS feed

What's on?