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Exploit tool reveals inner working of the iPhone
An iPhone debugging tool has been released that reveals the inner workings of Apple's popular gadget. Read more »
Symbian expects Android to get forked
Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood. Read more »
Opera Dragonfly sets out to catch bugs
Opera has released Dragonfly — a set of Web development tools for debugging Web pages. Read more »
Rapid app development hits Delphi for PHP 2.0
CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive Web applications. Read more »
Linux fanboy hacks Beeb iPlayer again
Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. Read more »
Google to improve image text recognition?
Google has filed a patent for the recognition and use of text contained in images and videos. Read more »
Sony slashes PS3 development kit cost
Sony announces an almost 50 percent price cut to the cost of its development kit hardware. Read more »
Visual Studio 2008 release this month
Microsoft will release the latest version of its flagship development tool Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November. Read more »
Developers get .NET source -- look but don't touch
Microsoft intends to release parts of the .NET 3.5 source code in the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008. Read more »
Intel + Linux = iPhone killer?
Intel is looking to succeed where others including Noka and Palm have failed to set the world alight, and deliver a Linux-based Internet device by 2010, which could challenge the success of the iPhone. Read more »
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Getting to grips with parallelism
Although parallelism may be a new concept for many programmers, there are some for whom the concept is a part of their daily responsibilities. Read more »
Programming for Cell
As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »
Visual Studio 2008 simplifies JavaScript debugging
One of the more cumbersome development tasks is debugging client-side JavaScript code. Tools such as Firebug are helpful, but in the case of Firebug, you're forced to use Firefox. Thankfully, Visual Studio 2008 provides a robust and developer-friendly environment for debugging JavaScript. Read more »
Easily test Web services with soapUI
The soapUI tool makes it much easier to test Web services during development. It's also useful for interacting with third-party Web services to get a better idea of what to expect (and what to include) in the response. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2008
If you often have to track down bugs in an application installed on another machine, you should check out Microsoft's remote debugger tool with Visual Studio 2008. This article takes a look at its set-up and usage. Read more »
Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit
At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »
Log Linux services with runit
Each supervised service is controlled via a run script, similar to an init script for a system service. This run script does one thing: prepares for and starts a service. Read more »
Generate dynamic SQL statements in SQL Server
When you need to solve a tricky database problem, the ability to generate SQL statements is a powerful tool -- although you must be careful when using it. This article explores how you can use this functionality to generate SQL statements on the fly. Read more »
Developing real-time applications with Java RTS 2.0
Java Real-Time System (RTS) 2.0 is Sun's fully compliant implementation of the industry standard set of extensions for the Java platform. It helps you set process priorities according to importance (this is typically not supported in Java software applications). Read more »
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Opera Widget SDK released
-- Opera has announced the release of Opera Widgets SDK beta, that allows Web developers to create Web applications capable of running on all devices. 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 »
Adobe bashes open source alternatives
-- Adobe Systems has embraced open source software for some products, but its core Creative Suite line looks like it'll remain proprietary. Read more »
iPhone Web development guide released
-- Apple has released it's Web development guide for iPhone. Is your Web application Safari compatible? Read more »
Mixed Emotions
-- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »
CodeGear ready Ruby release
-- CodeGear have announced this week they will be releasing an integrated development environment(IDE) for Ruby on Rails developers in the second half of 2007. Read more »
Live Blog: MIX 07 Keynote
-- Live blog from the MIX 07 Keynote. Will we see an announcement regarding Silverlight? It certainly appears so. Read more »
Get more out of Safari with Debug mode
-- Safari's debug mode can open up a few nice features like a JavaScript consol and mask Safari as Internet Explorer. Read more »
Aussies bringing Ruby to .NET
-- Developers at the Queensland University of Technology are currently working on an innovative project to create a compiler for the Ruby language that runs on the .NET Common Language Runtime. Read more »
CodeGear Q&A
-- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »
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Share a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »
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Android devs less than gruntled
Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »
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As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »
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Club Builder: Captain Obvious vs the Crackpots
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference.
