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Can bundling help Silverlight trash Flash?
When Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight, he is usually having one of two types of conversations. Read more »
Adobe to take Flash videos to desktop
Adobe Media Player, set for release later this year, can play back downloaded video files, rather than browser-based video streams. Read more »
Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival
Looking to dethrone Adobe's Web video tool, Redmond to unveil a browser plug-in called Silverlight. Read more »
Adobe ponies up for Apollo
Adobe to invest part of $100 million venture fund the downloadable player that lets Web applications appear as desktop programs. Read more »
AOL opens video search engine to developers
AOL has opened up its video search engine to developers in an effort to get more people to integrate its service into Web sites and blogs. Read more »
Bring some 'bling' to your Web site
Want your Web site to rank higher? Make sure search engines can link to all your pages, use specific keywords when tagging content, promote popular products prominently and use software to track visitor traffic. Read more »
Microsoft offers development tools for Mac, Web
Even as its steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for the Mac OS and the Web. Read more »
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Build an AIR application for your website
Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »
Desktop RSS with Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is currently in public beta; it allows developers to build dual platform applications for the desktop with existing Web 2.0 technologies including Flash and Ajax. Read more »
Add XML functionality to your Flash movies
You already know that XML enables data to move easily between applications. Now see how you can integrate XML and Flash for some powerful effects. Read more »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. 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 »
Special report: MXDU 2005
MXDU 2005, happening on February 17 and 18, is an annual event for developers wanting to learn the latest hints, tips, and ideas on using Macromedia MX technology to build and deliver the best experiences on the web. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Geoff Bowers
Builder AU recently caught up with Geoff Bowers to talk about Web services, surviving the dot com crash, and the decision to open source Daemon's flagship content management system. Read more »
Windows Vista Beta 2 Slideshow
We take a detailed look at the features of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which include improved security options, "gadgets" and integrated search. Read more »
Developing components: Namespacing and code organisation
Managing code and namespaces is an important aspect of application development that doesn't always get proper attention. See how one company uses Workspaces to their advantage. Read more »
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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 »
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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
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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.

