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Microsoft walks VB tightrope

Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. Read more »

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Technology saturation affects developers and organisations

Juval Lowy, a member of Microsoft's internal design review team for .NET, has said that there is no doubt that the average developer and average organisation are completely saturated by an avalanche of technologies. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Inside .NET with Juval Lowy

Builder AU caught up with Lowy during his masterclass in Sydney and discussed what is in .NET 3.0, the design review process and how developers can better learn. Read more »

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The doldrums of Visual Studio

We are currently in the doldrums of Visual Studio, as the design tools are not fully ready for WCF. Juval Lowy claims that this will be remedied in the next Visual Studio release. Read more »

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Developers are technicians, architects are actual engineers.

Juval Lowy says that the software industry has suffered from an inflation in titles -- a software architect would be an engineer in another discipline, and a developer would be a technician. Read more »

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Unrealised potential within WCF

Juval Lowy discusses how WCF is a long way away from reaching its full potential. Read more »

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Developer community is saturated with technology

The rate of change has surpassed the rate of adoption, therefore people and organisations are skipping versions in order to keep up. Read more »

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Should standards be imposed?

Juval Lowy discusses the trade-off of using a highly structured protocol standard for communication instead of a fast and unreliable protocol. Read more »

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Microsoft's Sphere in action

Like Microsoft's tabletop Surface computer, the touch-controlled Sphere can sense multiple, simultaneous contacts, allowing a number of people to use it at the same time. The system works by projecting an image onto the inside of the sphere, while infrared technology senses the touch input 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 »

    -- 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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    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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