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Twitter rival Pownce acquired, closed
Pownce, a would-be Twitter rival that was heavily hyped due to the involvement of Digg co-founder Kevin Rose, will close its doors in two weeks after being acquired. Read more »
Google admits breaking App Store rules
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge. Read more »
OLPC giveaway program hits Oz
The Australian subsidiary of the non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation is about to commence a "Give 1, Get 1" program on November 30 that deliver the machines to both geeks and disadvantaged children. Read more »
Microsoft: IE 8 won't be done until 2009
Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday. Read more »
Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source
It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it's releasing BrowserPlus software as open source software. Read more »
Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs
Sun Microsystems late last week announced plans to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs. Read more »
Video: Conroy defends internet filter
In this video, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asks Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to justify his comments that other coutries have internet filtering systems similar to the one proposed for Australia. Read more »
Sun releases MySQL 5.1
Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications. Read more »
Developers want Ballmer to show money
Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »
Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism
Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same notions. Read more »
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Save time in Java when coding IEEE floating point numbers
Does your Java project need to create floating point numbers from a series of bits or create a sequence of bits from a floating point number? Then check out how the Float class can do the work for you. Read more »
Protect your JavaScript with obfuscation
This article takes a closer look at the concept of code obfuscation and provides a sampling of obfuscator tools that will help you protect your JavaScript code. Read more »
The benefits of agile development
I recently spoke to Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, Rational Software from IBM about the benefits of the agile development method. Read more »
Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome
Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »
Security in the Web 2.0 Era
At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »
Maintaining state in ASP.NET: Know your options
Maintaining state is a problem that all Web developers face regardless of the platform. ASP.NET adds four options on top of the standard approaches on the Web. This article drills down on these options. Read more »
The 7 most important communication skills an IT leader should have
Everyone wants to tell IT pros that they need to develop people skills, but no one really tells what those skills are. Here are the most important skills an IT leader should have and how to develop them. Read more »
LINQ for next Java query API?
LINQ could become the next query API for Java, after the majority agreed at a recent meeting of the Object Database Technology Working Group (ODBTWG), as well as the ICOODB conference in Berlin that it was the optimal solution. Read more »
Patent ruling good or bad for tech?
Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that abstract processes, or business methods, cannot be patented, it's important to look at how this could affect the tech industry. Read more »
Raphael JavaScript library simplifies creating graphics
This article explains how to use the Raphael JavaScript library and describes the various options that are available in it. Read more »
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Developer community is saturated with technology
The rate of change has surpassed the rate of adoption, therefore people and organisations are skipping versions in order to keep up. Read more »
Should standards be imposed?
Juval Lowy discusses the trade-off of using a highly structured protocol standard for communication instead of a fast and unreliable protocol. Read more »
Sun: We screwed up on open source
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up". Read more »
Open source is not a zero-sum game
Simon Phipps, chief open source officer, Sun Microsystems says rather than be worried about IBM, he hopes that they will participate further with the open source community Read more »
Will Web users flock to Flock?
On "Working Webware," ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin to find out about the company's social media browser, its role in the open-source community, and how it plans to compete against rivals Microsoft and Mozilla. Farber and Needleman also analyze the company's odds for success and Flock's fate in the next-generation browser wars. Read more »
Rusty's message to C++ programmers
Rusty Russell presents a community service announcement to all C++ programmers Read more »
Discussing IronPython
IronPython is an implementation of Python on the .NET platform. Lead Program Manager, Mahesh Prakiya talks about the future of IronPython and how they work with the Python community. Read more »
Microsoft battles to win over 'sceptical' designers
Microsoft is far better known for its relationship with developers than with designers but as the software giant begins to step on Adobe's toes with its design tools, it has started hiring "user design evangelists" to help spread the word -- both to the design community as well as within it’s own campus. One of the first designers to be recruited into this new role was Shane Morris, who joined Microsoft at the start of 2007. Read more »
Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and unspecified patents is akin to "patent terrorism", according to a local executive for Sun Microsystems. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the vision
-- A successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
Social news start-up Streem shuts down
-- Sydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue
-- Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
SMB bug gets seven-year itch
-- This week's roundup looks at the Great Firewall of Australia, seven year-old security holes, Android's big bug and we chase Steve Ballmer around Sydney. Read more »
Sun's JavaFX RIA platform MIA?
-- Adobe and Microsoft have taken the early lead in the RIA market but Sun is still waiting to get out of the starting blocks with JavaFX. Is Sun too late to the party? Read more »
Microsoft's new identity tools
-- One of the topics at this year's PDC in Los Angeles was identity management. Microsoft has taken steps to ensure easier user authentication by announcing new tools for managing identities and the support for OpenID. 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 »
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 »
.NET looks to REST
-- With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »
Spellr.us needs a new dictionary
-- One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
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Mini-Confs Day 2
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007. 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.