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Microsoft planning IE privacy mode
For many, privacy on the Web is a concern. And for Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, privacy is a feature. Read more »
25-year-old BSD bug found and fixed
A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at least 25 years old. Read more »
Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner
A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months — a far cry from what most companies currently do. Read more »
YouTube opens APIs, gets tough on terms of service
YouTube has released application programming interfaces allowing its content to be embedded into other Web sites, desktop applications, video games and mobile devices. Read more »
Archiving software leaks Gmail passwords to author
A US programmer has uncovered an e-mail address hard-coded into an archiving program that is designed to capture username and password information from users of the software.. Read more »
Wikipedia's neutrality is a 'facade'
An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries. Read more »
Microsoft patch Tuesday brings security twosome
Microsoft on Tuesday released its January 2008 security bulletin, which includes only two updates: One is designated as "critical" by the software giant and the second one is deemed "important". Read more »
Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims
Microsoft denies abusing its market position, claims IE supports a "wide range of Web standards" and says it has no intention of unbundling IE and Windows. Read more »
Control your search with new Google experiment
Google is experimenting with a new Web search interface that allows people to influence the results they get by indicating whether or not they like particular results. Read more »
Leopard stumbles over file transfers
A flaw has been identified in the way Apple's operating system Leopard moves files between storage volumes which deletes the source file if the transfer is disrupted. Read more »
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Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API
Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »
Moving the Tempdb and Master Database in SQL Server
This article walks you through the process of moving the Master and Tempdb databases to different drives. Read more »
Scripting out DHCP reservations in Windows Server 2008 with Netsh
Scripting out DHCP reservations can save a lot of time for large pools of reservations. See how the Windows Server 2008 Netsh tool can help out in this regard. 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 »
Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »
See how the Java API for XML Registries works
Web application developers must deal with a number of distributed registries, each with its own API or protocol. The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) aims to unify these approaches so that each may be used as needed in an automatic fashion. Read more »
Defining cascading referential integrity constraints in SQL Server
By using cascading referential integrity constraints, you can define the actions that SQL Server 2005 takes when a user tries to delete or update a key to which existing foreign keys point. Read more »
Interview: Simplifying Web app design
Following the Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne, we interviewed Robert Hoekman Jr in an email on his presentation -- "Essential elements of great Web application design". Read more »
Java security: Policies and permission management
This article explores three areas of Java security: security managers, access controllers, and access permissions. Read more »
Easily manipulate data with LINQ
The buzz around .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is hard to ignore, especially since Microsoft is embracing it with the latest release of the .NET platform (beginning with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0) and Visual Studio 2008. Read more »
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Sending the Inbox into receivership
-- If you've got an e-mail inbox with thousands of e-mails just sitting there, chances are you are living inside your inbox and that you are a slave to mail notifications. To overcome this problem and get on top of your e-mail rather than vice versa, here are a couple of techniques. Read more »
No, you can't have private attributes in Python
-- Is the lack of privacy a real shortcoming of the language, or is our judgment clouded by the old conventions of C++ and Java? Why do we need private variables anyway -- at what point does defensive programming become paranoia? 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 »
Scratching an Itch
-- In the wonderful world of software it is unlikely that your next big idea is original. In the modern world of collaborative development over the Web it's also likely that someone has belted out some code for it too. Read more »
Will OLPC change Linux?
-- If OLPC is successful then the next generation of programmers will come from an environment that is a vast change from the fringe desktop that we live in today. Read more »
Worth getting out of bed for!
-- There some mornings I don’t want to get out of bed... Read more »
ATTN Google, Spam is Spam!
-- I just don't understand it, my Google Mail (Gmail) spam folder overflows. What you say, lots of it - well, their spam filters must be working. While that may be true, I'm expecting more for what they have to offer. Read more »
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Apple to developer: Fart jokes aren't funnyWhen Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »
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Chrome is just another browserHands up if you missed the Chrome release -- didn't think anyone did. Google's browser arrived with all the fanfare and hype that only Google can produce. Read more »
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Club Builder: Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox
In this episode of Club Builder: a new Firefox plug-in makes browsing more powerful, computer viruses enter orbit, and Microsoft gets a three-way serve of soapboxing.

