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Original Mac designers reunite
The Mac's original design team gives Steve Jobs a public beating, but on the show floor, the CEO still wins praise from die-hards. Read more »
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development. Read more »
Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »
Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft
For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »
Is Microsoft rigging OOXML standards vote?
The Free Software Foundation Europe has accused Microsoft of "stuffing the ballot boxes" in a vote designed to establish Office Open XML as a recognised industry standard. Read more »
It's Adobe's game to lose, CEO says
Bruce Chizen discusses open source, the importance of video and increasing competition from the likes of Google. Read more »
System.Globalization namespace in .NET
The .NET Framework has built-in support for globalisation in its System.Globalization namespace. This namespace can help you build international support into your applications. Read more »
Chuck D lays down the law on DRM
'Just a lot of fucked-up shit' says rapper on consumer experience of DRM. Read more »
Microsoft rejects Visual Studio delay request
Microsoft has rejected a request from developers to push back delivery of Visual Studio 2005 in order to fix bugs. Read more »
Chills at Microsoft's security huddle
Microsoft likes to keep its friends close -- and now that security companies are its foes, it may well want to keep those even closer. Read more »
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Ask Chuck:.NET user controls
This week Chuck takes another look at a Builder AU reader's question on user controls, this time focusing on Windows form controls in the browser. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Application Design
This week Chuck responds to a Builder Australia member's question on suggested application design in a .NET environment. Read more »
Hiring a Web designer
When you're interviewing candidates for a Web designer position, you should carefully assess their skill set. Here's a list of technologies to look for and some questions to ask. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Background colours of an ASP.NET web form
This week Chuck answers a Builder AU reader's question on the difficulty of getting a background colour to work on an ASP.NET web form. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Displaying graphs in VS.NET (part two)
As part two of Chuck's answer on displaying graphs with VS.NET, Alan Eldridge takes an alternative answer using Crystal decisions. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Creating Windows apps without a remote database
This week Chuck answers a Builder AU reader's question on creating Windows applications that users can edit without having to connect to a remote database. Read more »
Eight UI tips for better Web forms
How do you keep a user interested in completing a Web form? The following tips are a sure-fire way to help you get the most out of your Web forms. Read more »
Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)
In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »
The evolution of a design
As developers, we're always striving to produce modular, easily extended designs. Unfortunately, we often don't know whether we've succeeded until the implementation is complete and we're asked to change something. Read more »
13 Design rules that every Web site designer should know about
If you regard yourself as a professional Web site designer, then you need to be aware of, and then follow, these 13 design rules for building effective Web sites. Read more »
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Australian twitterati talks malware
-- It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service. Read more »
No, you can't have private attributes in Python
-- Is the lack of privacy a real shortcoming of the language, or is our judgment clouded by the old conventions of C++ and Java? Why do we need private variables anyway -- at what point does defensive programming become paranoia? 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.