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Unveiling Apple's iPad: Live blog
After months of rumors and speculation about a slate-like device, Apple has had its say. See the train of events in this blog from the high-profile press event which kicked off in San Francisco at 10am PST — 5am Sydney time. Read more »
Google Squared gets more data, better filters
Google has released a few enhancements to Google Squared, its attempt to build spreadsheets out of search results. Read more »
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
The PostgreSQL project has released version 8.4 of the open source database management software, with more than 290 additions and changes to features. Read more »
Google readying microblog search?
About a month after saying it was taking real-time search seriously, Google seems to be preparing a microblogging search tool. Read more »
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts
Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. Read more »
Microsoft patents 'Page Up' and 'Page Down'
Microsoft has been granted a patent on 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keystrokes. Read more »
Tech greats bid farewell to Gates
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »
Fighting Office with open source
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology. Read more »
Mozilla gets social bug with The Coop
The Mozilla Foundation's Labs has started a project to add social-networking features to the Firefox browser. Read more »
Office 2008 for Mac to come this year
Putting lingering questions about update timing to rest, Microsoft has announced that the new version of Office for Mac will arrive in the second half of this year. Read more »
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Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications
Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »
Code concepts: LINQ's expression trees
In this overview about LINQ's expression trees, we show how you might use expression objects in your projects. Read more »
Hands-on programming: Create a function library from an external configuration
This article incorporates information from his T4 templates and lambda expressions columns into this tutorial on creating a function library. Read more »
Preparing for Exchange Server 2010's hardware and software requirements
Exchange 2010 is out and about and ready to deploy. This article provides you with some assistance on getting prepared for this latest release in the Exchange line. Read more »
Code concepts: Database normalisation and de-normalisation
This article provides an overview of the basics of normalisation and de-normalisation, with an emphasis on the Third Normal Form. Read more »
Comparing cursor vs. WHILE loop performance in SQL Server 2008
This article discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation. Read more »
Workflow Patterns
In this serialisation of Chapter 15 from the book Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, we look at some of the more complex, yet common use cases and how these can be addressed in a relatively straightforward fashion by the Workflow Service. Read more »
Linux botnet discovery points to lazy administrators
Recently, a Russian security researcher discovered a 100-node Linux "cluster" that was running a botnet which was, in turn, connected to a group of desktop machines. Altogether these machines were serving up malware. Read more »
Code concepts: .NET's lambdas
This article provides an overview of what lambdas in .NET are and explains how to use them. Read more »
OutSystems' Agile Platform: The IDE of my dreams
Get in-depth details about OutSystems' Agile Platform, including information about deployment, security, data binding, project management, and more. Read more »
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Facebook changes coming in response to user complaints
-- Facebook users haven't exactly been reticent about their dislike for Facebook's recent redesign. And Facebook staff want you to know they're listening. 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 »
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 developer features
-- The latest Firefox alpha release -- 3.1 alpha 2 is more significant for developers than end-users. Read more »
Design websites with Dreamweaver CS3 layouts
-- Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts. 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 »
Outsourcing made wrong
-- Outsourcing is hot! Every major corporation around the globe is outsourcing all or part of their software development -- and unfortunately the result is lots of unsuccessful projects. Read more »
Confessions of an accessibility sadist
-- 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 »
You need to be smart
-- One of the most popular buzzwords in software development agile. Today everyone
wants to be agile. That is good! However, being agile is not enough. Read more »
Clusters bucking Microsoft's desktop dominance
-- The latest TOP500 shows that you can takes Microsoft's percentage in the desktop space, invert it and you have the percentage of supercomputers using Windows. 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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