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Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.com.au on Thursday in a video interview. Read more »
Nasa hacker loses legal challenge
UK resident Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the US to face charges of hacking Nasa and military installations. Read more »
Google Code reverses open source licence ban
Google has undone an earlier ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open source projects hosted at its Google Code site. Read more »
Google's Android gets app market
Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system. Read more »
Building quality code, not testing for quality
Involve quality in the entire application development process, instead of concentrating on it only from the software debugging stage, industry watchers have urged companies. Read more »
ASCII: An artful way around spam filters
An old computer art form is making a comeback as a newer way to evade spam filters. Read more »
Space virus infects orbiting laptops
At least two laptops on-board the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth have been infected with a virus. Read more »
Google's math == FAIL!
Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number. Read more »
Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1
Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »
Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps
As Intel prepares for multiple cores in every machine, it is bringing new tools to the table for software developers. Read more »
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Build Web applications without writing code
This article gives an overview of Iceberg -- a tool for building Web application without writing code. Read more »
Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API
Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »
JavaScript -- a Flash competitor?
Open source software has its problems when it's trying to keep up with proprietary software, but when it does what it's good at -- creating ideas and developing them very quickly in public -- it can be revolutionary. Read more »
Asia's open source hangup
One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. Read more »
Why would anyone choose Windows over Linux?
Why would anyone choose Windows over Linux? This article lists some of the advantages of Linux over Windows. Read more »
How do I ... make C# or .NET Framework applications accessible in the system tray?
A great way to insure that your program is easily accessible to the user is by putting an icon for your application in the system tray. This article shows you how to use the system tray with C# and the .NET Framework. Read more »
Get your Shoes on and go dance with code
Shoes is a Ruby-based toolkit which has the evangelical mission of letting non-programmers get their mice wet without having to go through all the tribal initiation rituals that today's computing environments demand. Read more »
Getting to grips with parallelism
Although parallelism may be a new concept for many programmers, there are some for whom the concept is a part of their daily responsibilities. Read more »
Multi-core state of play
It promises to be the biggest revolution in programming since object orientation -- but it remains virtually unheard of to most developers. Thanks to the development and uptake of multi-core CPUs, developers must begin to consider truly programming in parallel. Read more »
A Beginners Guide to Threading
The golden age for programmers is over. For a decade we have been able to get away with writing slow code, knowing that the hardware would pick up the slack. Not so any more, hardware developers have decided that software developers need to raise their game, and get ready for a generation of multi-core processors. Read more »
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Animal Euphemisms and Robot Musicians -- Club Builder
In this episode we look at an Aussie clarinet robot, Linus Torvalds insults monkeys and walruses, what's it take to make a good mobile app, and the UK gets totalitarian Read more »
Performance and large scalable applications
Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, describes the factor that developers should think about when creating large applications that have good scalable performance. Read more »
Avoiding security risks with AIR
Being a native application, AIR needs far more security than a typical Flash application. Mike Downey, principal evangelist, Adobe, discusses the extra steps Adobe had to take with AIR. Read more »
Does AIR move the focus off the web?
With Adobe pushing their AIR product, does the development focus return to the desktop? Mike Downey, principal evangelist, Adobe, answers this question. Read more »
Making Windows Live services more open
Angus Logan describes how Microsoft is opening its web applications with more APIs Read more »
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 »
Charney: App vendors are the weakest security link
Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Read more »
CERN demos giant 3D digital camera
At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid... Read more »
Motorola: The evolving mobile Internet
At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Thursday, Motorola executive Christy Wyatt explains the various stages of the mobile Internet and the importance of giving users the ability to download and use many different applications to create a unique experience. Read more »
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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 »
Facebook developers to factor in age, location
-- Facebook has announced modifications to its developer application programming interface so that the creators of third-party applications can restrict their reach by demographic -- more specifically, by age or location. Read more »
How to Lifestream with WordPress
-- Lifestreaming is the act of collecting and publishing all of your social networking activities in one stream. Here's the easy way to get started using your own install of WordPress. Read more »
Confirmation: Vista is about nothing
-- The man who has made a career from making humourous observations on the mundane things in life, is bringing his skills to promoting a slighted OS. It looked good on paper: get Jerry Seinfeld, one of the world's most successful clean comedians, to promote Vista. But was it really thought through? Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
VMware shows how not to do it
-- As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. 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 »
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 »
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 »
The best news Linux could ever receive: LinuxWorld's a bust
-- The latest proof that Linux has conquered the corporate data center crowd: LinuxWorld is a dud. Read more »
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Gallery: Jamming it with Web 2.0
"So what is WebJam?" the girl at the bar serving my mate and I a beer asked. She's thinking that maybe there's something to do with music happening tonight, but it's nothing like that. Read more »
LCA Open Day
Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »
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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The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »
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Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »
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MyPerfect.com.au has potentialVictorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
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Club Builder: Seinfeld, Wiimotes and Woz
On this episode of Club Builder: Jerry Seinfeld is the new face of Vista, we learn how to make a cheap whiteboard, and Woz talks about Steve Jobs.
