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SourceLabs creates automated open source support
System designed to speed up problem resolution. Read more »
Oracle updates application server, Java tool
Oracle said on Friday that a new version of its Java application server and development tool are available with enhancements designed to ease back-end and AJAX-style Web development. Read more »
Microsoft launches long-awaited updates
After a number of delays, Microsoft on Monday launched long-awaited updates to its flagship database programs and developer tools. Read more »
McAfee automates Google hacking
McAfee has released an update to its tool that uses Google to automatically search for security holes in Web sites. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Walker Royce
Walker Royce is the Vice President of IBM's Worldwide Rational Lab Services; he is also the author of Software Project Management, A Unified Framework. Builder AU caught up with him to talk about the process of software development and where we are heading as an industry. Read more »
KDE developers focus on accessibility
Developers behind the next version of KDE, an open-source Linux desktop environment, are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities, a conference has heard. Accessibility is a major theme at the KDE Community World Summit, currently taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany. On 22 and 23 August the summit held a Unix Accessibility Forum, bringing together developers and people with disabilities. Read more »
Gates woos developers for wireless
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday unveiled plans to help developers more easily create applications for mobile devices that use its operating system software. Read more »
Yahoo tool helps Web programmers shrink images
Yahoo, which has considerable expertise in maximising Web site performance, has long offered advice on how to speed up sites up by minimising photo size. Now it's released a tool to help Web programmers automate the process. Read more »
Building quality code, not testing for quality
Involve quality in the entire application development process, instead of concentrating on it only from the software debugging stage, industry watchers have urged companies. Read more »
Google plans 'Chrome' browser
Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project. Read more »
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Automate your Java testing with Agitator 3.0
The latest version of Agitar's automatic testing tool aims to make test generation of your Java code automatic. In this review we take the latest version of Agitator out for a spin. Read more »
Build your own automated response system in Perl
The ability to automatically read and respond to e-mail with appropriate commands helps you monitor enterprise apps. Here's how. Read more »
Improve code confidence with these three .NET code review tools
Automated code tools can help developers locate potential problem points in their code before it ever leaves their machines. Here's a look at three tools that can help you with automated code review. Read more »
Software development to become an automated commodity
Into the future, code generation will become more and more entrenched as software development is further automated. Read more »
Visual Studio 2008 offers developers more testing options
Unit testing has evolved from a fringe activity to an industry-accepted way to develop software. This change in attitude was aided by the introduction of numerous freely available testing frameworks. Read more »
Using Agile Software Development, part two
We've seen how Agile Development affects each developer individually, so now we'll look at how the whole development team adopts Agile practises. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Kent Beck
Kent Beck is one of the three creators of the agile process extreme programming (XP), and author of JUnit. Builder magazine caught up with Beck to talk agile methods and his future plans with software company Agitar. Read more »
Using Agile Software Development, part three
In our final article for this series, we see how the development team interacts with the customer, and how to get them involved in the process. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Jakob Nielsen
Builder AU recently caught up with usability guru Jakob Nielsen to talk about the Web, open source software, the future of 3D interfaces and mobile devices. Read more »
Digging code: Software archaeology
At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. Read more »
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Commidisation & automation of software
At the recent Gartner Symposium, we caught up with Daryl Plummer, Gartner fellow, who spoke about how software development will change into the future. Read more »
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You shall be replaced by a small shell script
-- This week's roundup covers OSDC, Google's attempt to get school kids into open source, the roel of automation in software development, why we hate salespeople and more. Read more »
Database pros get tools in the know
-- Microsoft has just released the eagerly anticipated Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (TEDB) which allows developers to build database applications in a team environment. Read more »
The last of the codeslingers?
-- Is programming a transient job that's experiencing its last days of the Wild West? 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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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.