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Google urges web adoption of vector graphics

Some seeds for overhauling web browser graphics were planted more than a decade ago, and Google believes now is the time for them to bear fruit. Read more »

Snow Leopard benefits to be longer term

Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge well afterward. Read more »

Bing, Wolfram Alpha agree licensing deal

Microsoft's Bing search engine and Wolfram Alpha have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialised scientific and computational content that Wolfram Alpha generates, according to a source familiar with the deal. Read more »

Java gets new maths know-how

Apache Commons developers have released a major update to the Apache Commons Math project, which is designed to extend Java with specialised mathematical and statistical components. Read more »

Q&A: Sun open-source officer Simon Phipps

As the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems, Simon Phipps spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the MySQL acquisition, and community engagement on OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris. Read more »

Google's math == FAIL!

Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number. Read more »

Google's one trillion page crawling task

In a blog posting on Friday, Google shared some detail about the challenges of one aspect of its search operation, the Web indexing and processing that must take place before the results are delivered to users. The short version: Google has no choice but to think big. Read more »

Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank

Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. Read more »

Google's changes rely on guinea pig users

Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website — both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces. Read more »

Will Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo backfire?

Microsoft's US$44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo could backfire if not executed properly, according to analysts -- but the phenomenal price may be worth paying to fend off the challenge from Google. Read more »

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Raphael JavaScript library simplifies creating graphics

This article explains how to use the Raphael JavaScript library and describes the various options that are available in it. Read more »

Parse mathematical expressions with JEP

JEP is a Java mathematical expression parser. This means that you can pass JEP a string of mathematical operations (which may also contain variables) to perform and get back an answer. Read more »

Aussie IT unions rise from the dead

Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around. Read more »

How do I ... reject alpha characters in a SQL Server character column?

Enforcing your data's integrity is probably the single most important issue you face when designing a database. Validating user input is one way of keeping bad data from making its way into your analyses and reports. Read more »

A Quickstart to Haskell

Haskell is a functional programming language, in some ways similiar to ML or Erlang. Programming in functional languages can be a bit of a challenge to people used to standard, imperative methods. Don't fret, Builder AU's got you covered with this short quick start to Haskell. Read more »

Seven habits of effective developers

Sun engineer Lee Chuk Munn says writing applications is like writing a book -- keep it clean and keep it simple. Read more »

Understand the inner workings of generics in Java

Generics, an advanced feature of Java 1.5, allow type checking to make sure you fill your Collections and ArrayLists with only the types of Object you intend. Read more »

Performing mathematical functions in VB.NET

To perform mathematical operations in VB.NET you can utilise the System.Math class. In this tip, we will look at a simple way of working with math-related functions in VB.NET. Read more »

80% of software is no brain work: Ivar Jacobson

Efficiency, Code Reuse and Artificial Intelligence -- we sat down with one of the inventors of UML and the RUP to talk about how the software industry has to change in the next five years. Read more »

A Quickstart to Common Lisp

Common Lisp is one of the most powerful and efficient languages out there, but it's still widely misunderstood. It's predecessor Lisp is almost fifty years old and projects are still being started using it -- get the basics under your belt with this quick start. Read more »

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