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Open source licence victory in model-railway case
A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions. Read more »
Kernel coding no picnic, says Torvalds
Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel. Read more »
Microsoft prepares for final OOXML battle
Weeks out from a crucial ISO vote in Geneva on the ratification of Microsoft's proposed Open XML standard, Microsoft is engaged in a last ditch campaign to convince the wider industry that its endeavours are in the best interests of users. Read more »
Tech wages booming in Qld and WA
IT wages continue to rise by an average of three to six percent a year, according to the 2007 Hays Information Technology Salary survey -- with IT workers in Queensland and Western Australia starting to command wages as high as their counterparts in Sydney and Melbourne. Read more »
Torvalds takes bite of Mac mini
Linus Torvalds has picked up one of Apple's new Intel-based Mac minis to play with, but the Linux creator continues to prefer Apple's old PowerPC architecture for his primary desktop machine. Read more »
Microsoft backpedals on programming patent
Microsoft plans to withdraw an attempt to patent technology already used in a free Java programming project called BlueJ, the company said Sunday. Read more »
Microsoft's CTO envisions a Web-savvy clipboard
Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie has proposed a way to bring the equivalent of a PC's text clipboard to the Web, a move he said will spur more user-driven "mashups." Read more »
OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'
The data format standard has the potential to transform the world just as the Web did, according to a senior Sun executive. Read more »
Sun CTO: 'The world needs only five computers'
Industry lore likely is wrong to attribute to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson the famous misjudgment that there's a world market for five computers. But Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually. Read more »
Black Hat with a Vista twist
Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering this year as Windows Vista and IE7 come under the spotlight. Read more »
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Designing for application quality
Quality is such a ubiquitous goal in software engineering. Scott Withrow takes identifies a number of primary quality attributes for consideration in your project. 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 »
Design more cohesively with XML and XSLT
Find out how XML and XSLT transformations can help you bring together your site's design. Read more »
Working toward more realistic design goals
Web developers often try and restrict users on exactly how a Web page should look. Usability expert, Michael Meadhra says that developers need to be more flexible in their design. Read more »
Abandon tables, simplify design with CSS
HTML developers often use tables to create page layouts. But Cascading Style Sheets offer a more nimble alternative. This quick tutorial shows you the way. Read more »
Realistic UI design
No Web page looks exactly the same on different platforms, even though Developers go to great lengths to do so. Michael Meadhra says Web sites need to be more flexible. Read more »
Flex: The new face of design and development
Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »
Web design: Web accessibility design guidelines
As a Web developer you should consider user disabilities when developing a site. Here are some accessibility guidelines. Read more »
Designing a search-friendly Web site
By controlling the search engine indexing of your Web site, you can ensure that users trying to find your information get there easily. Read more »
Ease Web site navigation by implementing ASP.NET's SiteMapPath control
The ASP.NET Site Map Web server control allows you to easily set up and define a Web application's logical structure. It is designed to work with ASP.NET 2.0's Menu, SiteMapPath, and TreeView navigation controls. This article describes how to implement user-friendly Web site navigation with the SiteMapPath control. Read more »
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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 »
Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table
-- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
Oracle's Agile PLM gains popularity
-- I recently spoke to Oracle about their Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, an integrated tool for managing information about a product throughout its lifecycle. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite 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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.