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Macromedia aligns with Eclipse
Macromedia is to join the Eclipse Foundation and plans to create Zorn, an IDE based on Eclipse. Read more »
Adobe drops LiveMotion software
Adobe has announced that it will stop shipping LiveMotion, the company's product for creating vector graphics like Macromedia's Flash software. Read more »
Opera brings AJAX to mobiles
A beta version of the Opera Platform SDK allows interactive Web applications on smartphones. Read more »
Microsoft release Xbox developer tools
The software giant has released XNA studio, based on Visual Studio 2005 Team System, which should ease game design across multiple platforms. Read more »
Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming
Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? Read more »
eBay sold on Web services
eBay has expanded its Web services program to bring its propriety technology to all its affiliates--not just the Web sites and programmers that were initially invited to join the effort. Read more »
End of the line for HP's Alpha
Hewlett-Packard will release its final Alpha processor on Monday, the beginning of the end for a chip dynasty that never was. Read more »
Liberty Alliance launches new standards
The launch of ID-WSF 2.0 extends support to SAML 2.0, and should allow easier communication between secure Web services based upon other open standards. Read more »
Microsoft releases 'critical' patches
Microsoft released a higher-than-usual number of monthly updates, more than half of which were given the software company's highest rating of "critical." Read more »
Rescuing recordings
The aged wax cylinder in Carl Haber's hands was cracked and spotted with greenish mold, too fragile now to be played with a record needle, as it was intended. Read more »
Features (7)
Create graphics on the fly using PHP
Ever wonder how sites like Yahoo!Finance generate those dynamic bar charts as stock prices change throughout the day? It's not magic--free tools like PHP make generating on-demand graphics a cinch. Read more »
DIY image gallery in PHP
Image galleries make it easy to browse a photo collection. This handy open source tool, written in PHP, makes setting up your own photo gallery a snap. Read more »
Ruby on Rails: The importance of being 1.0
We speak to David Heinemeier Hansson about the merits of open source, why Ruby on Rails should really be at 2.0 by now and how logic should keep out of the database. Read more »
SOA do's and don'ts
SOA is commonly acknowledged as the most cost-effective and efficient way to integrate disparate information systems together. Here are some tips from Builder AU to get you started. Read more »
Five tips on managing consultants
An outside consultant can offer the expertise that makes the difference between a winning project and a loser. Before your external code guru starts cranking out lines of code, make sure your in-house staff doesn't revolt. Read more »
Sophisticated open source ad serving with phpAdsNew
A full-featured, sophisticated ad management system doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. This well-documented and powerful ad-serving system might just be right for you. Read more »
How to keep your team focused on results
Here are tips for ensuring that your team members stay focused on their tasks amid myriad distractions. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite 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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending 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 »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
2008/11/21 10:32:55
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.

