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Write your name in the Firefox code
The Mozilla Foundation is offering to "immortalise" people's names in the code of Firefox, if they manage to persuade a friend to download its Web browser before September 15. Read more »
Solaris engineers offer personalised source-code tours
Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet. Read more »
Sun reluctant to make Java open source
The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. Read more »
Microsoft to reveal more Longhorn details
Microsoft is expected next month to disclose more details on Longhorn, its planned upgrade to Windows, as the company looks to drive demand for the forthcoming operating system. Read more »
Borland segues from coding to lifecycle management
The company that created many famous names in software development is quitting the coding tools market and will concentrate purely on the process of software creation, backed by its purchase of Segue Software. Read more »
Microsoft criticises third party code for Windows crashes
Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code. Read more »
BrainAcademy 2006 seeks coding stars
The UK's programming competition is back, and this time overseas coders and school students can join in. Read more »
Google announces Chrome OS
Google this afternoon announced the creation of the Google Chrome Operating System project, with the goal to build a Linux-based OS available for purchase on netbooks in the second half of 2010. Read more »
Rapid app development hits Delphi for PHP 2.0
CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive Web applications. Read more »
Europe extends open-source resource
The European Commission is launching a resource for public sector organizations to share open-source code and applications. Read more »
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Doxygen: A breath of fresh air for documentation
Although it's part of your job, creating documentation isn't nearly as much fun as writing code. Check out this open source tool that automates the creation of your docs. Read more »
Use DOM to create data-driven HTML documents
The Document Object Model can be a powerful object-oriented tool for creating data-driven HTML documents. See how DOM can be used in conjunction with XML data islands to increase the efficiency of your Web applications. Read more »
Exposing product information via Web services
The .NET Framework simplifies the Web service creation process. Learn how to create a Web service that interfaces with SQL Server and returns the applicable information from the Northwind database. Read more »
How to avert the big don'ts in creating a white paper
Knowing from the outset what can kill a white paper's value is critical to making sure the development effort isn't misguided. Find out how to avoid the most common mistakes. Read more »
Take advantage of code snippets in Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 brings auto-complete for code snippets to C#, J#, and XML, as well as additional features for Visual Basic. Read more »
Creating custom Visual Studio 2005 code snippets
Reuse common code blocks in your applications through Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. 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 »
Measure progress by counting lines of code
One developer explains why he believes that counting lines of code can yield useful information, and he shares an app to automate the process. Read more »
Make managed code work with .NET's CAS
Developers and administrators can set permission and trust levels with code access security (CAS), while allowing the code to execute effectively. Read more »
Comprehend the SAP Authorisation concept with these code samples
Whether you're a developer, a consultant, or the user of a SAP system, you'll eventually come across issues related to authorisation. This article provides some handy code samples to help you get acquainted with authorisation in SAP. Read more »
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If PHP then goto is the future
-- Few things can spark more religious fervour amongst programmers than the mention of a goto statement. Read more »
Chrome gets extensions
-- In this week's Roundup we look at the release of Chrome for Mac and Linux and its support for extensions, a security flaw in Safari, popularity of SaaS and more. Read more »
AJAX applications and security
-- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them. Read more »
The Portal of the Future
-- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
Schoolgirl builds SecondLife Web app
-- A new web application AjaxLife allows interaction with the online virtual world
SecondLife. The cool part? It was developed in just a week by a fifteen year old English schoolgirl. Read more »
Helper Monkey to JavaScript's rescue?
-- A new project by Sun Microsystems is looking to tackle the problem of maintaining and debugging JavaScript code by bringing DTrace's tracing framework to the Web 2.0 table. Read more »
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Gnome 2.16 Preview
With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »
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