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Linux Australia votes in first female president

Linux Australia's new president, Pia Smith, says it's time for Linux Australia to get serious. ZDNet Australia talks to her about the organisation's plans for 2003. Read more »

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How to be a proactive project manager

There are three types of project managers--accidental ones, good ones, and proactive ones. Which one are you? Read more »

A beginner's guide to Tomcat 4/JSP

Take a step-by-step journey through a Tomcat installation, and then discuss creating Web applications using some key Tomcat 4/JSP features. Read more »

Make your C# code more readable with comments

Application developers enjoy solving problems and churning out line after line of code, but the mere mention of documentation sends them running for the exit. Here are some tips for comments using C#. Read more »

How to work with nebulous RFPs

Vague RFPs are a fact of development life, so you need a strategy to deal with them. These tips will help you create a plan to keep your clients happy. Read more »

Tips on optimising your SQL Server indexes

Proper indexing is a major factor in performance tuning your SQL Server database. Follow these tips to get your applications in tiptop shape. Read more »

New Oracle10g SQL optimizer hints

With the introduction of Oracle 10g, there are many new optimizer hints available to control optimizer behavior. Take a quick tour of these powerful new hints. Read more »

SQL joins made easy

If you're new to SQL, joins can be a daunting concept. There are many different types of joins and seemingly little information available that explains and compares them. But after you digest a few basic concepts, the practice of joins actually isn't very difficult. Read more »

JavaMail puts messaging power at your fingertips

The JavaMail API is a messaging framework for e-mail messaging that provides protocol-independent access to mail infrastructure. We'll show you how you can use it in your Java programs. Read more »

Understanding your mental models can help sharpen PM skills

Becoming more aware of your mental models, or preconceptions, can help you become a more nimble project manager. See how to make your mental models more conscious and explainable and learn how they relate to the discipline of personal mastery. Read more »

Java, annotated

Annotations can eliminate boilerplate code, make source code more readable and provide additional levels of error checking. They're used everywhere from EJB3 to JUnit4. Here's how you go about using them. 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

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    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

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    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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