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Wikia search goes live, fails to find a match

An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative. Read more »

Microsoft to 'open the doors' of Linux labs

Microsoft will launch a Web site to share the activities of its internal Linux laboratories, an effort to sample feedback from customers who combine Microsoft and open-source software. Read more »

Microsoft SharePoint goes wild for wikis

Microsoft has jumped on the Web 2.0 express with the launch of an add-on for SharePoint server that enables businesses to make use of popular "community" collaboration features such as wikis and blogs. Read more »

Windows Live program manager quits 'paralysed' division

The departure of a Windows Live program manager has highlighted concern within Microsoft about the strategic direction of the company. Read more »

Microsoft to release more source code?

Microsoft is considering the release of source code for a popular tool used to build Windows programs. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

Google reduces cookie lifespan by 30 years

Google has tipped its hand to privacy advocates and agreed to cut the lifespan of user cookies by up to 30 years -- instead, the search giant will implement a rolling two-year auto-renew policy. Read more »

Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial

Microsoft asked for references to free software to be removed from a document presented at the recent United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the software giant admitted on Friday. Read more »

Microsoft's mysterious Windows 7 communiqué

Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a press release, which is not uncommon. What is uncommon is to get one unconnected with a product launch, an event or some major change in strategy. Read more »

Windows chief opens up on '7'

Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to keep silent about new products, but now in an exclusive interview, he spills the beans on Windows 7. Read more »

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Features (10)

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

Customise your Web browsing experience with Greasemonkey

Discover how you can use Greasemonkey to extend and customise the Web browsing experience. Read more »

Develop a fully functional site with DotNetNuke

The open source DotNetNuke framework allows you to create a powerful Web application using an out-of-the-box solution. Read more »

Location-based publishing and services

Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »

IE is evolving, but is it enough?

Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser is in the process of getting its first significant update in two years this week, as part of the company's overhaul of its operating system. Read more »

What can enterprise coders learn from Web 2.0?

You may think that Web 2.0 has not place in your business, but you may be able to learn something from the methodology behind the techniques. Read more »

The LAMP development toolkit

Need to dust up your Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL (LAMP) software stack skills? Our LAMP development toolkit is just what you need. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Geoff Bowers

Builder AU recently caught up with Geoff Bowers to talk about Web services, surviving the dot com crash, and the decision to open source Daemon's flagship content management system. Read more »

Faster XML ahead?

The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from mobile phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military. Read more »

Blog (7)

10 PR 2.0 tips for startups

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- You’ve got a great product and spent much of your budget on developing your software or service and now you’re left with a marginal budget for marketing and PR. Sound familiar? Read more »

Welcome to the new look Builder AU

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- After many late nights, mountains of pizza and bottomless cups of coffee, we're extremely proud to announce the new Builder AU. Read more »

A new coat of varnish

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week featured plenty of coverage from the various conferences occurring around the country. All the while Builder's design gnomes were busy give the site a touch-up. Read more »

Does Wall Street understand open source?

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I've been attending the Sun JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, where the big news is Sun's ongoing commitment to release all its products under open source licences. Read more »

The audience is the application

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- In a near-perfect feedback loop, the audience for software developers is now becoming part of the process, a primary development tool able to feed back its wishes and bend the outcome of developers’ efforts to better suit to its needs. Read more »

Moving on

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Well readers, the time has come to move on... Read more »

Here's to the next step!

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- By now you can probably see the new look Builder AU Web site. Not bad, don't you think? Read more »

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