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Microsoft IE9 preview released
Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a prototype that's designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the web as it exists today and support for new web technologies that are coming right now. Read more »
Elements of Firefox overhaul arrive for testing
Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox. Read more »
New Google Web Toolkit reveals web-app speed
Just as Microsoft advanced the state of the art for programming on Windows, Google is trying to do the same with web-based software. Its latest move: the release of Google Web Toolkit 2.0. Read more »
WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D web
When it comes to built-in support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, WebGL is being built into Firefox and the browser project behind Safari, and now Chrome is following suit. Read more »
MonoTouch lets .NET coders build iPhone apps
Novell on Monday introduced MonoTouch 1.0, a development framework for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that uses Microsoft's .NET with C# and other programming languages. Read more »
Snow Leopard benefits to be longer term
Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge well afterward. Read more »
Open source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears
If you are using a GSM phone -- the 2G standard used by the majority of the world's mobiles -- you are likely to have just a few more months before it will be easy for practically anyone to spy on your communications. Read more »
Developers: Are you spreading malware when you code?
Researchers said on Tuesday they are seeing something unusual in the malware world -- a virus that targets a development environment. Read more »
Java gets new maths know-how
Apache Commons developers have released a major update to the Apache Commons Math project, which is designed to extend Java with specialised mathematical and statistical components. Read more »
Linux exploit gets around security barrier
A security researcher has released zero-day code for a flaw in the Linux kernel, saying that it bypasses security protections in the operating system. Read more »
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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 »
Get the most out of your yearly performance review
What you say in your performance review is not all that different than what you would include in your resume. Here are some tips. Read more »
Code concepts: Visual Studio's T4 templates
The T4 templating system is used to programmatically generate artefacts. Here's an overview about why the templates are useful and how to work with them. 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 »
Making the case for dynamic languages
This article presents reasons why developers should consider using dynamic languages. We also discuss how these languages trip up some developers. 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 »
Code concepts: C#'s extension methods
C#’s extension methods are a way of adding additional functionality to an existing class without subclassing it or having access to the source code. Programmers should definitely add extension methods to their toolkit. Read more »
C#'s var keyword
Today, we take a closer look at C#’s var keyword, which was introduced in C# 3.0 Read more »
Code Contracts makes validation easy and accurate
Code Contracts allows developers to create validation logic within their methods and classes without needing to write a lot of if/then statements. This article recommends .NET programmers take a little time to learn this extremely useful new framework. Read more »
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Valarray
In this five minute video we look at the Intel compiler's automative optimisation of one dimensional Valarray data structures. Read more »
Source Checking
In this four minute video we look at the Intel C++ compiler which is a part of Intel Parallel Studio, and see how easy it is to switch between the Microsoft and Intel compilers as well as find additional source code errors with the Intel compiler that otherwise would have gone undetected. Read more »
Advanced diagnostics
In this three minute video we see how Intel Parallel Composer is able to increase the diagnostic levels above the usual Microsoft compiler levels by using the Intel C++ compiler. Read more »
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Facebook gets its groove on with HipHop for PHP
-- Facebook has released a source code transformer aimed to increase the performance of PHP, while Office 2010 entered the release candidate stage this week. Read more »
Aussie creates iPhone virus
-- An Aussie hacker has created a worm that places a background picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones that have SSH enabled, and released its source code. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Apple can give but can't take
-- Apple has complained about Microsoft's laptop ads, a hacker has defaced the RAAF website and Firefox 3.5 users could fall victim to drive-by attacks. Read more »
The Best of Ballmer
-- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. 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 »
Java pioneer joins Microsoft
-- Neal Gafter, one of the leading developers who influenced the Java language has left Google to work on the .NET platform. Read more »
LCA09 Calls, OpenMoko and a little Gentoo
-- It's a little weekend roundup of Linux related news that may have slipped under your radar. LCA2009's call for papers, OpenMoko is available for purchase from the States and Gentoo has another release. Read more »
Railo to go open source with JBoss
-- Railo have announced they will be open sourcing their alternative engine for the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). Read more »
WebKit's SquirrelFish canes Tamarin
-- The next generation of Javascript interpreter for WebKit, called SquirrelFish, has been announced and is already beating the competition from Mozilla and Adobe's Tamarin project. Read more »
Google's Secret Sauce
-- A new Googler has offered a rare glimpse into the process by which the search giant turns ideas into products. Read more »
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Mini-Confs Day 1
Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering a range of topics Read more »
Gnome 2.16 Preview
With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »
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