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Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »

The History of Builder AU

Builder AU has turned five and it's time to look back and see how we got here. Read more »

Q&A: Borland's latest saviour

In the course of its 22 years in Silicon Valley, Borland Software has lived through its share of ups and downs. Read more »

Take browsers to the limit: Google

The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding edge features in browser software, the creator of Google Maps says. Read more »

Inside Microsoft's Linux lab

As Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf spends half his time trying to figure out ways Windows can work better with Linux and the other half trying to outflank the open-source rival. Read more »

Blending the human genome with art

"What is the nature of life?" and "Who am I?" are questions that cut across science, religion, art, philosophy and even computer science. Read more »

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Conference savvy for the IT pro

Conferences may be a budget line-item you're willing to cut, but they can be a professional boon if you make the most of your opportunities. Read more »

10 things you can do to get a promotion

Very few people hire on with any company or organisation with the intention of remaining indefinitely at the position for which they were hired. The thought of asking for advancement is usually pretty frightening, but these tips will help you be more prepared. Read more »

Local game studios face skill shortage

The Australian game development industry is now worth $130 million, employs around 2000 people -- and there has never been a better time to break into it. Read more »

Raise your external profile

The payoff of raising your external profile can be huge in terms of future career opportunities. Follow these tips from Builder.com to get you started. Read more »

Improve performance reviews with these tips

Performance reviews are rarely comfortable for the employee or the manager, but you can make them more positive by watching what you say. Read more »

So many conferences, so little time

Project management events are a good way to learn about new tools and connect with your peers. Here's how to select the most beneficial conference. Read more »

Tim Huckaby on TechEd 2003

Tim Huckaby, CEO of InterKnowlogy, MSDN regional director of the year and guest speaker at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Brisbane talks to Builder AU on this years event and life as a CEO on the road. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Damian Conway

Builder AU recently caught up with the Australian Perl guru to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl, PHP, and the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne. Read more »

Games development: a real career choice?

The recent spotlight on poor working conditions in the games industry has an all too familiar ring to it for local games developers. Read more »

An adventure in IT consulting

An outside consultant can provide the voice of disinterested honesty. If the client doesn't like what you have to say, the most you lose is the engagement. If they listen to you and it doesn't work, things could get ugly. You're not part of the protected herd of employees who will be all too happy to blame you. Read more »

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Confirmation: Vista is about nothing

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The man who has made a career from making humourous observations on the mundane things in life, is bringing his skills to promoting a slighted OS. It looked good on paper: get Jerry Seinfeld, one of the world's most successful clean comedians, to promote Vista. But was it really thought through? 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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