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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 »

Mitnick cleared after customs scare

Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago. Read more »

Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal

Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. Read more »

Facebook on the decline as 'virus' apps take hold

Privacy problems and propagation of "virus-like" applications has led to a marked decline in the use of Facebook's developer platform, according to industry analysts Ovum. Read more »

Firefox 3: New front in the browser war

Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »

Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone 3G

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the second generation iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference and details some of the improvements over the original iPhone. Read more »

US$100m Apple iFund: Widgets need not apply

Venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) placed a US$100 million bet on Apple's iPhone on Thursday by creating the iFund. KPCB partner Matt Murphy talks about the iFund and the type of big ideas the fund is seeking. Read more »

The boss's iPhone: Your worst security nightmare

As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices. Read more »

Solving Yahoo's identity crisis

The troubled Web giant used to be known for its innovative ways. To find a way to a brighter future, it could benefit from looking at its past. Read more »

With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed

Mozilla officially released Firefox 2, adding security features and a new interface. Read more »

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Handling multiple submits in a single form with PHP

Processing form data in PHP is significantly simpler than most other Web programming languages. This simplicity and ease of use makes it possible to do some fairly complex things with forms, including multiple submit buttons in the same form. Read more »

Browse ListView data with .NET's DataPager control

This article explains how you can use the DataPager control to page through ListView data. Read more »

Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class

The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »

Deleting data from an ASP.NET DataGrid

Deleting data from the DataGrid takes some work. Find out how to create a delete button for the DataGrid and how to build a pop-up delete confirmation. Read more »

Create data structures with JavaScript arrays

The JavaScript array object provides powerful support for assigning multiple data values to one variable, but you can also use it to utilise stack and queue data structures in an application. Get more information about JavaScript stacks and queues. Read more »

Bind HTML data elements to XML data islands

XML provides a universal medium for delivering data. One of the functions available in IE 5.0+ is the ability to bind HTML elements to data sources, specifically, XML data islands. Read more »

Ensure data integrity with validation

The many languages available for working with the .NET Framework make it easy to develop code that validates data. Find out what type of data checks you need to perform to ensure data integrity. Read more »

Cookieless data persistence is possible

Cookies are a common way to store retrievable user information, such as authentication data. But what if you need a non-cookie solution? Read more »

Diving into the data grid: Page changing and deleting

If you want to combine paging and deleting in an ASP.NET DataGrid, you may run into trouble. We'll show you the code that will enable you to get these commands to work together. Read more »

Transferring data with SQL Server 2000

Transferring data between SQL Server and other systems is common. Microsoft provides various tools to do it, but DTS is the most user-friendly. Read more »

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StartupCamp Melbourne: The review

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0. Read more »

What to expect from Rich Internet Applications

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I had a look this week at what the developers claim to be the world's largest Adobe Flex application. Read more »

Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »

Introduction to Infocard

[blogs:] -- Identity provisioning is a hot topic in the Internet right now. Microsoft is behind a new version called Infocard. Here is a brief introduction to what Infocard is. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    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 »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase 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 »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending 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 »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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