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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 »
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Learn the basics of Interface Definition Language
Interface Definition Language is an often unseen part of component-based development. Take this guided tour of IDL to find out how you can put it to work for you. Read more »
XML Web services need a firewall
With business imperatives driving an increasing need for cross-organisation integration, this challenge is getting ever more complex. Read more »
Wed Java to Web services with JWSDP
The Java Web Services Developer Pack allows you to create Web services apps with Java code. See our sample implementations in action. Read more »
Porting to .NET: Style at the sake of speed?
Sometimes we automatically assume that the latest platform or tool is the universal best. Read about two situations where the old approaches worked better. Read more »
WSDL for B2B: Part 2
WSDL may offer the most economical framework for passive B2B integration yet. Here's how to take advantage of Web services and WSDL when integrating apps. Read more »
Maximise DataSnap efficiency in Delphi
Delphi's DataSnap technology, formerly known as MIDAS, enables you to construct multitier applications. See how to get the DataSnap Server and the DataSetProvider components to work together. 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 »
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 »
Is LINQ the future of database development?
The LINQ (.NET Language Integrated Query) Project is a Microsoft initiative to standardise data access across not only data sources but also development. Will it revolutionise database development? Read more »
Web services B2B implementation demonstration: Part 4
In the fourth article of our series on Web services B2B implementation, we implement business logic and Web services associated with John's business tier. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA 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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What's the point in following Apple's rules on the iPhone SDK if other developers will just flaunt them? We check the answer out and cover the other issues from the week: OLPC, IE, Ballmer and the Internet in space. Read more »
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Five things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution
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Cyber-terrorism 'a big threat'
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Behind the Apple-Google API dustup
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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.