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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 »
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
The World Wide Web Consortium is planning a celebration to mark 10 years of setting specs for the Web - prompting the question, when did the Internet begin? Read more »
Macromedia readies ColdFusion update
Macromedia plans to wade into the growing electronic forms market with the next version of its ColdFusion Web application server. Read more »
Google reveals Android source code
A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »
Microsoft to release more source code?
Microsoft is considering the release of source code for a popular tool used to build Windows programs. Read more »
Microsoft to hand out early code
Looking to drive demand for a wave of forthcoming products, Microsoft will fill the pockets of developers this week with early versions of several programs, including the latest "build" of Windows Vista. 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 »
Debian preps for December code release
Developers of the popular Debian Linux distribution are ramping up coding efforts as they plan to release the next version of their operating system in December this year. Read more »
Microsoft simplifies code-sharing plan
Microsoft has simplified its program for sharing source code in an effort to work better with third parties. Read more »
Microsoft may offer peek at SQL Server code
Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft's turf? Read more »
Features (533)
Work around XForms' lack of browser support
XForms offers a way to implement Web forms, but most browsers don't support it. Use the Java Framework and Chiba to process server side XForms. Read more »
Avoid bad form data with a little CGI validation code
Validating data from a Web form with a CGI script is a standard practice. Find out how to tweak your form validation code using regular expressions. Read more »
Opening form instances in C#
In this article Let's we'll work through the general pattern in C# .NET for recalling a specific instance of a Form class. Read more »
Manipulate instances of Windows forms in C#
This article is the first in a series that's intended to ease the learning curve and help you get started working productively with C#. Read more »
Simplify coding and maintenance with class libraries
You use class libraries when you're developing any type of .NET application in order to manipulate the file system, access databases, serialise objects, and launch and synchronise multiple threads of execution. Read more »
Documenting code is worth the hassle
The problem with documenting code is that if you do it too early, it's just another thing to keep updated along with the code. And if you wait until the end, then you have no time or inclination to add comments. An easy way is to document your code as you go. Here's how it's done. Read more »
Combining JavaScript with ASP.NET Web forms
JavaScript provides an alternative for many tasks that negates the need to go to the server. Let's take a closer look at combining the power of JavaScript with ASP.NET. Read more »
VB.NET visual inheritance
VB.NET offers full-blown object-oriented support, including inheritance. Find out how inheritance can ease some of the hassles of form development. Read more »
Build a page framework in ASP.NET
ASP.NET enables you to create an object-oriented page framework to build Web sites. Find out how to put this handy capability to work. Read more »
Forms authentication in .NET: Using a database
Storing forms authentication information in Web.config has serious limitations. See how to work around them by storing this information in a database. Read more »
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Code lean and keep it green?
-- Being green doesn't mean waiting for efficient hardware. When every wasted CPU cycle counts is it time to re-evaluate efficient coding techniques? Read more »
The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computers
-- Ever wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »
What's new in CSS 3?
-- At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney on Friday, Jina Bolton presented "Creating Sexy Style Sheets", which gave an insight into some of the new features in CSS 3. Read more »
NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB
-- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?
-- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »
How to manage a team of geniuses
-- Hiring a team of developers and techies that are smarter than you is inevitable. As a manager how do you cope with this and keep things on track? 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 »
Wireless theft -- what's the harm?
-- Hand up if you have logged in to use some poor schmuck's unprotected wireless connection to overcome a bandwidth drought? Read more »
No, you can't have private attributes in Python
-- Is the lack of privacy a real shortcoming of the language, or is our judgment clouded by the old conventions of C++ and Java? Why do we need private variables anyway -- at what point does defensive programming become paranoia? Read more »
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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.