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Mozilla refreshes its open-source backbone
Ten years on, Mozilla has concluded that its open-source underpinnings are due for a refresh. Read more »
Elements of Firefox overhaul arrive for testing
Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox. Read more »
Facebook still pitching itself to open-source crowd
Facebook's rep at the Future of Web Apps event in Miami this week was David Recordon, the company's open-standards guru. That's a crowd that the social network still has yet to win over. Read more »
80% of Aussies support filter
A survey commissioned by the ABC's Hungry Beast, has found that 80 per cent of respondents supported Labor's proposed filter. Read more »
IE exploit code released on the internet
Exploit code for the zero-day hole in Internet Explorer linked to the China-based attacks on Google and other companies has been released on the internet, Microsoft and McAfee warned on Friday. Read more »
Microsoft: We did copy Plurk's code
Microsoft said on Tuesday that a blogging application posted to its MSN China site did in fact copy code from a rival. Read more »
Microsoft pulls China blog site amid code-theft charges
Microsoft said on late Monday that it's suspending access to an MSN China microblogging site amid allegations the service is based on code swiped from a rival. Read more »
Microsoft reposts Windows 7 download tool
Microsoft said on Wednesday it has reposted a tool to the internet that aids installing Windows 7 on netbooks and computers without an optical drive. Read more »
Google releases Chrome OS source code
Google has released the source code for its Chrome OS project, as it prepares to show off the lightweight operating system for the first time. Read more »
Microsoft open-sources .NET for embedded devices
Microsoft has open-sourced most of the .NET Micro Framework, the company's development and execution environment for embedded systems. Read more »
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10 ways to avoid mistakes during project development
The best strategy for dealing with mistakes is to avoid making them in the first place. Here are some tips to help you navigate around common project pitfalls. Read more »
Parse and process HTML with WebBrowser
The author describes how he used the WebBrowser control to parse HTML to extract data from it. Here are some of the issues he faced on this simple project. Read more »
Review of dotTrace 3.1 performance profiling tool
If you're looking for an alternative to the Visual Studio profiler, give the dotTrace 3.1 performance tool a look. Read more »
A GUI supporting .NET's BackgroundWorker for task progress and cancellation
In this hands-on programming tip, the author provides a sample project that you can modify when you're working with .NET's BackgroundWorker class. Read more »
OutSystems' Agile Platform: The IDE of my dreams
Get in-depth details about OutSystems' Agile Platform, including information about deployment, security, data binding, project management, and more. Read more »
It's time to consider alternatives to RDBMS
For at least the last 20 years, developers have been trying to figure out how to make the relational database work better for our needs. When do we start trying something entirely different? Read more »
Code concepts: C#'s extension methods
C#’s extension methods are a way of adding additional functionality to an existing class without subclassing it or having access to the source code. Programmers should definitely add extension methods to their toolkit. Read more »
C#'s var keyword
Today, we take a closer look at C#’s var keyword, which was introduced in C# 3.0 Read more »
Celebrating freedom with open source
Happy Independence day to our US readers. And with this celebration, I thought it would be a good day to remind everyone what open source is all about, at least on a fundamental, non-TCO-ROI level. Read more »
Microsoft to release .NET Micro Framework code
Microsoft is to provide users and developers access to the .NET Micro Framework source code, following a round of layoffs that affected the technology's developer team. Read more »
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Source Checking
In this four minute video we look at the Intel C++ compiler which is a part of Intel Parallel Studio, and see how easy it is to switch between the Microsoft and Intel compilers as well as find additional source code errors with the Intel compiler that otherwise would have gone undetected. Read more »
Holocentric Modeler Demo
Holocentric CEO John Forrest demonstrates the Holocentric Modeler, which is able to model from requirements analysis through to source code. Read more »
Blog (24)
Facebook gets its groove on with HipHop for PHP
-- Facebook has released a source code transformer aimed to increase the performance of PHP, while Office 2010 entered the release candidate stage this week. Read more »
Chrome OS source code unveiled
-- Google has open sourced the code of its web-based Chrome operating system. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
Aussie creates iPhone virus
-- An Aussie hacker has created a worm that places a background picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones that have SSH enabled, and released its source code. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »
TechCrunch50 Rundown
-- TechCrunch50 hit San Francisco this week with a number of big players announcing new products and features. Read more »
Microsoft creates open source foundation
-- Microsoft has created the non-profit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open source communities and software companies. Read more »
Microsoft's altruism just an illusion
-- Microsoft appeared to "get it" earlier this week, but it wasn't all that it seemed. Adobe and Oracle have been targeted by the security minded and the Windows 7 code has gone gold. Read more »
Mozilla Bespin tries taking coding to the cloud
-- Mozilla Labs on Thursday unveiled a new open-source project called Bespin, a web-based programming environment its developers hope will combine the speed and power of desktop-based development with the collaborative benefits of cloud computing. Read more »
Wired keyboards lead to tin foil hat wearing
-- Just because you don't wear a tin foil hat, doesn't mean they aren't after you keystrokes. Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
Feeling fines with Microsoft
-- This week had Microsoft-related news coming at us from left, right and centre -- fines, launches and more Steve Ballmer than you can handle. Read more »
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