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Developer defies MS demands to kill .NET debug tool
UK developer Jamie Cansdale seems to have ignored calls from Microsoft that he remove a free tool called TestDriven.NET from his Web site, despite legal demands that the tool be removed by June 1 -- because it breaches licensing conditions. Read more »
Building quality code, not testing for quality
Involve quality in the entire application development process, instead of concentrating on it only from the software debugging stage, industry watchers have urged companies. 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 »
Developers get .NET source -- look but don't touch
Microsoft intends to release parts of the .NET 3.5 source code in the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008. Read more »
Oracle gives SQL developers a helping hand
The release of the database giant's free development tool could make designing and debugging database code much faster and easier, but only for those using recent versions. Read more »
Oracle joins Microsoft developer program
Oracle has pledged to make its database software work better with Microsoft's development tools. Read more »
OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle
A project to create a Swahili version of OpenOffice.org has found that Microsoft's licensing structure can hamper open source development. Read more »
Developer aims for Dtrace on FreeBSD
One of the most useful tidbits from the basket of code released into the public domain this year by Sun Microsystems is likely to make it to the FreeBSD platform. Read more »
DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool. Read more »
Red Hat opens Linux development process
Red Hat released a new test version of its Linux operating system on Monday along with a new development process designed to include outside programmers. Read more »
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Debug your Java code with ease using JPDA
The Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) helps developers debug a running Java application in all situations. Peter V. Mikhalenko explains how this technology works and discusses some practical aspects of its usage. Read more »
Visual Studio 2008 simplifies JavaScript debugging
One of the more cumbersome development tasks is debugging client-side JavaScript code. Tools such as Firebug are helpful, but in the case of Firebug, you're forced to use Firefox. Thankfully, Visual Studio 2008 provides a robust and developer-friendly environment for debugging JavaScript. Read more »
Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2008
If you often have to track down bugs in an application installed on another machine, you should check out Microsoft's remote debugger tool with Visual Studio 2008. This article takes a look at its set-up and usage. Read more »
Debug JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with Firebug
Firebug is a great development add-on for Firefox. It provides an integrated tool for monitoring and debugging JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Here's a look at Firebug's features and benefits. Read more »
Getting to grips with parallelism
Although parallelism may be a new concept for many programmers, there are some for whom the concept is a part of their daily responsibilities. Read more »
Debug an application remotely
Debugging can often be handled on a developer's local machine, but some problems exist solely in a test or production environment. This article shows how to debug remotely. Read more »
Borland retools JBuilder 8
The Java tools market leader releases JBuilder 8, which is designed to offer better support for Web services and to make code management and debugging easier. Read more »
VS.NET Debugging Made Easy, Part 2
In the second part of this series on debugging in Visual Studio, Nick Wienholt explores some more advanced features to help debug your .NET code. Read more »
VS.NET Debugging Made Easy, Part 1
In this first installment on debugging in Visual Studio .NET, Australian tech writer Nick Wienholt shows you how cut down the debugging blues. Read more »
Debug Web forms easily with the help of VS.NET
Debugging code is never fun. But the .NET Framework and VS.NET can make debugging Web forms as easy as debugging Windows forms. Read more »
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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 »
CodeGear ready Ruby release
-- CodeGear have announced this week they will be releasing an integrated development environment(IDE) for Ruby on Rails developers in the second half of 2007. Read more »
iPhone Web development guide released
-- Apple has released it's Web development guide for iPhone. Is your Web application Safari compatible? Read more »
CodeGear Q&A
-- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »
Windows Azure: New windows, same tools
-- Microsoft was at pains to stress that it will be creating an environment that developers feel familiar towards for Windows Azure development. 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 »
Try… Catch… Win!
-- As a .NET developer, there are a few “best practices” that you should always consider. And one of the biggest is that every application you write should include error trapping to trap critical and non-critical errors that may occur. And the .NET framework makes it easy to use “Try… Catch” statements to intercept any errors that occur and allow you to handle the exception. Read more »
Introducing IE8: The Ocho
-- Over in Las Vegas the MIX conference is underway and that means only one thing: Microsoft announcements and plenty of them. Read more »
Adobe MAX conference: Sneak Peaks, Sound Treats
-- To close MAX 2006 Adobe gave delegates at the conference a sneak peek at some upcoming technologies and products. Read more »
Aussies bringing Ruby to .NET
-- Developers at the Queensland University of Technology are currently working on an innovative project to create a compiler for the Ruby language that runs on the .NET Common Language Runtime. 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.