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OOXML result: Will it matter in Australia?
Microsoft's OOXML document format has accrued enough votes for recognition as an international standard, but one observer believes the change will make little difference to users in Australia. Read more »
Microsoft launches Aust .NET developer program
Microsoft Australia has this week launched a new .NET developer recognition program to entice developers to contribute more to the Microsoft development community. Read more »
AU developers to get MS betas next year
Microsoft is to release to Australian developers next year betas of its new operating system, Longhorn, its next version of SQL Server, Yukon and Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio. Read more »
Firefox vulnerable to spoofing flaw
Vulnerabilities discovered in Mozilla's Firefox browser last week could be exploited to steal usernames and passwords. Read more »
Developers flock to Sydney for codefest
Over 2600 developers from around Australia have gathered in Sydney for Microsoft's thirteenth annual Tech.Ed conference. Read more »
Borland set to release JBuilder 2005
Borland Australia announced today the release of JBuilder 2005, an upgrade to the existing IDE for Java developers. Read more »
Reboot your body
For many reasons, some people are reluctant to exercise at a gym. There is now a viable alternative, and that's to take up an online fitness training course. ZDNet Australia examines a leading online fitness alternative. Read more »
Features (19)
Profile: Sydney .NET User Group
The Sydney .NET User Group meets every month to learn about Microsoft .NET technologies, XML, new products, and legal issues that affect software development. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Displaying graphs in VS.NET
This week Chuck answers a Builder Australia reader's question on displaying graphs of database data on web sites using VS.NET. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Support for DirectX
In this week's Column Chuck answers a Builder Australia reader question on .NET products and their native support for DirectX. Read more »
Ask Oracle: Using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA
In this article our Builder AU reader has a problem using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA. Oracle expert Richard Rendell gives his advice. Read more »
MAX 2006 Report
Max 2006 was staged in Las Vegas on 23rd - 26th October, Andrew Muller was there for Builder AU. Read more »
Ask Oracle: How do I set up a Virtual Private Database?
Want to set up a virtual private database? Oracle guru Richard Rendell answers our Builder AU reader's question that will get your database up and running in no time. Read more »
Microformats and Mapping
We begin by looking at what a microformat is and how they are useful, then progress to introducing the Google Maps API and finally putting it all together to produce the user group map Read more »
Wanted: cowboy developers
Talk in the industry is that there are too many "cowboy developers" who don't follow proven processes or methods, undermining the software engineering industry. Read more »
MySQL or PostgreSQL?
What is a better open source alternative--MySQL or PostgreSQL? Australian commentator Con Zymaris answers this Builder Australia reader's question. Read more »
Blog (8)
LCA Opening Day
-- Distro chairs, gentoo, solar cars plus Jonathon Oxer. And that's before things really get going! Read more »
Google Maps discovers Australia
-- Aussies have missed out on much of the mash-up madness with Google being slow to deliver Australian maps to its popular mapping service. However, local developers will have to wait no longer, GoogleGoogle have launched Google Maps with Australian maps.
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Apple to preview WWDC 2006 to Australia
-- I got an e-mail from Apple's developer relations this morning saying they will be embarking on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in June. The two-hour seminars will take place in most Australian capitals and include information on technology to be released at Apple's World wide Developers Conference (WWDC), held every year in San Francisco. Read more »
Conference season open for Web developers
-- Are Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight, Google Gears, AJAX, and the semantic Web some of your favourite things? Now's the right time to put in that training request because May and June are full of great local Web developer conferences. Read more »
Google Developer Day scheduled in 2008
-- Google has announced that it will host a free new event for developers in 2008 in Sydney. Read more »
Aussie software pros code for the Fred Hollows Foundation
-- Software professionals in Australia have coded together a blitz Web-based charity campaign to raise money for the Fred Hollows Foundation -- donations are now open. Read more »
Aussies bringing Ruby to .NET
-- Developers at the Queensland University of Technology are currently working on an innovative project to create a compiler for the Ruby language that runs on the .NET Common Language Runtime. Read more »
Be a hero, get a Meego: IT Fund for kids competition.
-- Support the IT Fund for kids and you could win from an entertainment pack worth over $1,000! 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 6.5
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 »
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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
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.