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Google woos Web developers with Universal Gadgets
Search giant Google has announced it is opening up its Gadgets framework to Web developers, allowing you to add their Universal Gadgets to your pages. Read more »
Yahoo acquires 'widget' engine
Yahoo has acquired software "widget" engine Konfabulator in a move to spur third-party developers to devise new applications for the Internet giant's services. Read more »
IBM donates code to Eclipse
IBM has donated source code to an open-source project in an effort to create more sophisticated development tools for building graphical interfaces. Read more »
Opera mobile gets Symbian support
There's been a lot of activity recently in the world of mobile browsers. Read more »
Microsoft Popfly service does mashups
Microsoft on Friday introduced a Web mashup builder for the rest of us. Read more »
Latest Mono release brings .NET on Linux closer
An autoconfiguration system for the project's ASP.NET implementation should make the open source .NET implementation easier to deploy. Read more »
Microsoft opens Popfly beta
Microsoft has opened the beta program for its new mash-up building system Popfly, unveiling the consumer-orientated tool to the world at last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Read more »
Mac developer looks to Windows to escape Tiger
With Apple Computer threatening to push his product aside, longtime Mac developer Arlo Rose has moved his Konfabulator over to Windows. Read more »
Mozilla plans major facelift for Firefox 3
Mozilla is hoping the next version of its Firefox browser will look familiar -- regardless of which operating system you use. Read more »
JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together
The Seam project provides an open source framework for Web 2.0 applications written in Java Read more »
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Review: Total .NET Developer Suite
Properly managing code production can make an application project. Total .NET Developer Suite is a third-party add-in for Visual Studio .NET that can give you an edge when it comes to creating reusable code. Read more »
Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world
Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »
Getting started with Delphi for PHP
This article guides you through a brief tour of CodeGear's Delphi for PHP, a visual IDE for developing applications in PHP. Read more »
Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit
At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »
GUI scripting with Zenity
Meet Zenity, a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Read more »
Learn how to use the YUI Library Calendar control
We look at the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library's Calendar control. Read more »
Starting with Spry
Spry is intended to be a way of easily implementing Ajax; designers with entry level HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience should find Spry an easy way to integrate content. Read more »
Why qooxdoo falls short on its goal of simplification
The days of building Web applications from scratch are over, as a variety of JavaScript libraries are freely available to provide a solid foundation. Qooxdoo is an open source AJAX Framework that simplifies building Web user interfaces. Read more »
Free framework looks to simplify Ajax development
Adobe's Spry framework for Ajax is meant primarily for users who are Web design professionals or advanced nonprofessional Web designers. Here's a look into obtaining and using it. Read more »
Partial function application in Python
Python is not an inherently functional language, but with the help of the functools library you can write some programs in a functional style. One of the key tools do to writing functional code is partial function application, which is available through the functools module. Read more »
Blog (10)
iPhone Web development guide released
-- Apple has released it's Web development guide for iPhone. Is your Web application Safari compatible? Read more »
Opera Widget SDK released
-- Opera has announced the release of Opera Widgets SDK beta, that allows Web developers to create Web applications capable of running on all devices. 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 »
Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps
-- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
10 PR 2.0 tips for startups
-- 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 »
Adobe lead charge for a Java SWT port to Apple's Cocoa
-- Reports out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week indicate a port of Java SWT(Standard Widget Toolkit) to Mac OS X Cocoa is being readied. Read more »
A new coat of varnish
-- 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 »
Google: Don't give up on OpenSocial
-- When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web.
But is the search king already too late to the party? Read more »
Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote
-- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.