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Google Android's new battleground: Developers
Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices. 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 »
Step aside, Chrome, for Squirrelfish Extreme
Just about every browser out there now is trying to grab the crown for fastest performance for running JavaScript, the programming language that powers many increasingly sophisticated Web-based 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 »
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 »
Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force
Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »
Sun: JavaFX can take on Flash
This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight. Read more »
Microsoft releases new Visual Studio and .NET
Microsoft has this week made its top development tool, Visual Studio 2008, available for download to its professional developer subscribers. Read more »
Oracle joins IBM's Java project
Oracle will join the board of the Eclipse consortium, an IBM-sponsored project to develop an open-source tool for developing Java applications. Read more »
Apple Web app opens doors to others
A new version of Apple Computer's Web application development software, released on Tuesday, aims to be more compatible with emerging Web services standards. Read more »
Features (493)
The benefits of the Web ontology language in Web applications
To reach the visionary goal of a Semantic Web, the W3C must develop a Web ontology language. Get an overview of this farsighted concept and contemplate the various use cases that make this language vital to the future of the Web. Read more »
Secure your .NET smart client apps with CAS
.NET allows code to be downloaded onto several workstations, which increases security concerns. Fortunately, the .NET Framework offers a solution--code access security (CAS). Read more »
Add XML functionality to your Flash movies
You already know that XML enables data to move easily between applications. Now see how you can integrate XML and Flash for some powerful effects. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Creating a global development framework
The CLR is an integral part of the .NET Framework that promises to let developers employ their cross-language skills in one master architecture. Read more »
Migrating Legacy Applications
Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis, takes a closer look at the steps you need to take to successfully migrate legacy applications. Read more »
Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X applications
You can easily build applications that use the Aqua UI and interact with other applications on your Mac. We'll show you how. Read more »
Platform migration with COBOL applications
Many organisations are faced with the reality of having to port applications written in COBOL to new platforms. Use these planning tips from Builder Australia. Read more »
Build next-generation applications
Reduce time to market and meet the requirements of Web-aware applications by adopting one or both of the new virtual machine standards. Read more »
SQL Server applications
Get the most out of your application development efforts by familiarising yourself with SQL Server. Follow these guidelines to build better applications. Read more »
Blog (29)
Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers
-- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »
Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
-- Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. 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 »
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 »
Railo to go open source with JBoss
-- Railo have announced they will be open sourcing their alternative engine for the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). Read more »
Social Skills
-- With Facebook usage on the decline, is OpenSocial the next big thing? Read more »
Simonyi tells programmers to leave the Dark Ages
-- Charles Simonyi -- legendary Microsoft programmer and space tourist -- doesn't have many good things to say about the current state of his own profession, software engineering. Read more »
How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2
-- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »
What to Expect in Java SE 7
-- 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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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.