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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 »

Sun, Microsoft to flesh out pact

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday plan to provide details about their six-month-old alliance for the first time. 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 »

Xandros debuts free desktop Linux

Xandros, a start-up focused on desktop Linux, has begun offering a stripped-down version of its product. The desktop OS comes with a version of Opera. Read more »

Small business to fuel Web services explosion

Midsize and small businesses will drive a tenfold spike in spending on Web services software in the next four years, IDC analysts predict. 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 »

Tablet PCs find niches not riches

A new report says tablet PCs are catching on in some areas but haven't yet made it with most businesses and consumers. Read more »

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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 »

Use project metrics to improve processes and declare success

Gathering metrics (measurements) on a project is one of the more sophisticated project management processes and can be the hardest to implement. Read more »

Laying out elements with the CSS box model

The CSS2 specification uses the box model as the basis for describing everything displayed on a Web page. This concept will require some rethinking by developers, but the flexibility of the design will pay off in the end. 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 »

Use Oracle 10g Single-Sign-On with .NET applications

Configure Oracle 10g Single Sign-On to work with Microsoft .NET applications and achieve better integration. 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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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    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 »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite 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 »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay 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 »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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