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Business apps giant SAP gets Web 2.0 bug

Business software companies are looking to the consumer Web for product inspiration -- and potentially profit. Read more »

Google woos Web developers with Universal Gadgets

Search giant Google has announced it is opening up its Gadgets framework to Web developers, allowing you to add their Universal Gadgets to your pages. 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 »

JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together

The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java 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 »

Yahoo acquires 'widget' engine

Yahoo has acquired software "widget" engine Konfabulator in a move to spur third-party developers to devise new applications for the Internet giant's services. Read more »

Apple: Widget writers wanted

Apple Computer is hoping the possibility of winning a free iPod will prompt developers to start writing widgets--small Mac programs that will run in the next version of Mac OS X. Read more »

Widget security worries dog Apple

Though Apple Computer updated its latest OS last week to solve a security problem with widgets, worries persist that the small applications still pose a potentially serious risk. Read more »

Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone

Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called oneConnect that can centralise communications and social-networking activity. Read more »

Jobs says oops on MobileMe launch

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has admitted it was a "mistake" to roll out the company's MobileMe service at the same time it launched the iPhone 3G and other big products, tech news site Ars Technica has reported Read more »

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Partial function application in Python

Python is not an inherently functional language, but with the help of the functools library you can write some programs in a functional style. One of the key tools do to writing functional code is partial function application, which is available through the functools module. Read more »

A Quickstart to building GUI based applications in Python

Nick Gibson will show you how Python's emphasis on simplicity can get you up and running on your graphical application in no time. Read more »

Developing Applications for Intel-based Macs

A new processor architecture has massively boosted Mac power and capabilities, but what does it mean for developers? Stephen Withers investigates how to port your Mac apps. Read more »

Build complex GUI applications with Gtk2-Perl

You can create an effective GUI for a Perl-based application by taking advantage of Gtk2-Perl. We'll walk you through a pair of examples to get you started. Read more »

Conflict between Rich Internet Apps and SOA? Say it isn't so

This article says the issues between Rich Internet Applications (and mashups) and the ServiceOriented Architecture-based infrastructure need to be resolved because these issues represent the path of least resistance to service orientation. Read more »

Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world

Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »

Getting started with Delphi for PHP

This article guides you through a brief tour of CodeGear's Delphi for PHP, a visual IDE for developing applications in PHP. Read more »

HTTP and HTML: The paradox of dominance

The saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail," makes me think of the mess that we're in when it comes to the dominance of HTML and HTTP. Read more »

Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit

At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »

Why qooxdoo falls short on its goal of simplification

The days of building Web applications from scratch are over, as a variety of JavaScript libraries are freely available to provide a solid foundation. Qooxdoo is an open source AJAX Framework that simplifies building Web user interfaces. Read more »

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Widgets - Revenge of the shiny things

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- In a world without widgets, would you start up separate applications for the weather, a dictionary, a screen ruler, a gmail peeker and an app that checks your favourite web comic everytime your machine boots up? Read more »

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 »

Opera Widget SDK released

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Opera has announced the release of Opera Widgets SDK beta, that allows Web developers to create Web applications capable of running on all devices. Read more »

Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. Read more »

Facebook's portal for the masses

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »

The most interesting Web OS experiment yet

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS. Read more »

Adobe lead charge for a Java SWT port to Apple's Cocoa

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Reports out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week indicate a port of Java SWT(Standard Widget Toolkit) to Mac OS X Cocoa is being readied. Read more »

DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- There's been plenty of talk about data portability over the past few weeks, what with Facebook taking issue with a Plaxo script that imported user data from one social network to the other. But the news has mostly dealt with tiffing and squabbling -- until now. Read more »

Google: Don't give up on OpenSocial

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web. But is the search king already too late to the party? Read more »

Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »

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