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E-forms standard finalised

The main standards body for the Web released the final specification this week for XForms, a standard that will compete in the growing market for electronic forms. Read more »

Firefox 2 support to be cut off

The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. Read more »

IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs

IBM has launched its latest attack on Microsoft in the enterprise, forming an alliance with three top Linux distributors to promote Microsoft-free PCs around the world. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

SAP and Microsoft tune up for Duet

SAP and Microsoft on Tuesday announced "Duet" as the name for a joint project to bring their respective flagship products closer. Read more »

IBM pilot ad-hoc Java tools

IBM this week launched new software development tools available for free on the alphaWorks Web site for emerging technologies. Read more »

Simplify your life with PEAR classes

Most PHP Web developers have heard of PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, but very few of them actually use it on a regular basis. Here are 10 reasons to get started today. Read more »

'Office 2.0' start-ups knock on business doors

Attempts to unseat Microsoft Office look more likely to come from an army of ants than from one giant foe. Read more »

SOA-capable WebSphere expands to mainframes

IBM brings portal software that integrates service oriented architectures to its mainframe and midrange server lines. Read more »

Vista feature exposes beta machines

Windows Vista beta testers have stumbled upon a networking feature in the operating system that could pose a security risk to them, but they say they're not worried. Read more »

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The evolution of a design

As developers, we're always striving to produce modular, easily extended designs. Unfortunately, we often don't know whether we've succeeded until the implementation is complete and we're asked to change something. Read more »

Creating sites that meet users' expectations

While working on a client Web site, Michael Meadhra was reminded of how easy it is to lose sight of such usability basics. He shares his lessons relearned. Read more »

Migrating Legacy Applications

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis, takes a closer look at the steps you need to take to successfully migrate legacy applications. Read more »

Prepare for the transition from HTML forms to XForms

XForms are an XML-based replacement for conventional HTML Web forms. Learn about the basic elements of XForms and see how to implement them in a standard Web form. Read more »

Ask Chuck:.NET user controls

This week Chuck takes another look at a Builder AU reader's question on user controls, this time focusing on Windows form controls in the browser. Read more »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 1)

Windows Presentation Foundation is one of the most interesting new developments in .NET 3.0, we sat down with WPF trainer and author Ian Griffiths to talk WPF, Silverlight and what Microsoft has over the competition. Read more »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »

Designing databases for reporting brings clients higher ROI

Reports can be the most important part of the database apps you design for clients. The ability to create queries and reports on the fly extends the power of reporting information and creates added value for your clients. Read more »

Update DTC list boxes with this client-side solution

Follow this easy client-side technique to modify a list box's contents when they're dependent on the selection in another list box. Read more »

Troubleshoot Apache with these tips

The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »

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Confessions of an accessibility sadist

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- If your mouse dies because of a software update, most people would rollback the update -- a small minority will continue to move forward regardless. All in the name of science and testing the world of accessibility. 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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