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Q&A: Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield

In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant. Read more »

Q&A: Debian leader on not being in it for the money

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system continues to generate interest from developers around the world, keen to sign up and contribute code to the open-source project now in its 15th year. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Q&A: Inside Window Server 2008

With Microsoft set to officially launch Windows Server 2008 this week, ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com sat down with Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business to talk about what to expect. Read more »

Yahoo hyped on Digg-alike Buzz tool

Although Yahoo executives speaking at an online ad conference on Monday were mum on Microsoft's takeover attempt, they were quick to tease a new feature -- due out this week -- on their home page which could be their rumoured competitor to social news aggregator Digg. Read more »

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee

A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence. Read more »

Q&A: Borland's latest saviour

In the course of its 22 years in Silicon Valley, Borland Software has lived through its share of ups and downs. Read more »

Father of Java labels patent case atrocious

The father of Java -- James Gosling -- has called the recent court case between Sun Microsystems and Eastman Kodak over patents "a complete atrocity". Read more »

Father of Java set for Australian tour

The original designer of the Java programming language, James Gosling, is planning to visit Australia early in 2005 for two capital city seminars aimed at local developers. Read more »

Think proprietary, government tells open source

Open-source developers keen to impress potential government buyers should take some pages from the practices of proprietary software vendors, a senior government procurement officer told attendees at the AUUG 2004 conference in Melbourne. Read more »

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First impressions of ASP.NET's MVC framework

Find out why you may want to use Microsoft's Model View Controller (MVC) framework instead of Web Forms. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

James Gosling Q & A

James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »

Where do developers turn to for help?

Have you hit a wall in your project and want to know where to find the answers? Local tech commentator Tony Stevenson asked some seasoned developers their tips to finding help. Read more »

Googling at the future

In this Q&A Google's CTO Craig Silverstein claims the future of search technology will see science fiction become science fact, but in the meantime, the best option is to fake it. Read more »

UNIX programming and open source Q&A

Eric Raymond's upcoming book on UNIX Programming discusses the principles that guide UNIX development. Find out what his thoughts are on the state of UNIX programming and other issues that face the open source community. Read more »

Q&A: Steve Mann

Professor Steve Mann just may be the world's first cyborg rights activist. It is a future, he says, that is no longer the exclusive preserve of science fiction. Read more »

Beating the software blues

Tealeaf Technology founder Robert Wenig says that the quality of software applications continues to plague the computer industry. Read more »

Q&A: Windows Server 2003 kernel guru

Windows core technology guru Rob Short explains how hackers were involved in Windows Server 2003 development, and why not all NT4 applications will run on it. Read more »

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Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »

Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »

Schmidt happens in Sydney

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The scene was set: harbour views from the Sydney Opera House and Eric Schmidt , the Chairman and CEO of Google, was about to front the throng of media assembled. Read more »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

Open source Java imminent

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- It's finally happening, Sun are releasing Java ME and SE under an open source licence -- the GPL. Read more »

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Gallery: Jamming it with Web 2.0

"So what is WebJam?" the girl at the bar serving my mate and I a beer asked. She's thinking that maybe there's something to do with music happening tonight, but it's nothing like that. 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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