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Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th

If you've never seen a couple hundred bona-fide geeks sitting on the edge of their seats with excitement, you should have been on hand Saturday for an appreciation of the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club. Read more »

Sun releases Jini with open-source licence

Sun Microsystems this week released its latest Jini development toolkit under the Apache open-source licence. Read more »

Tech firms to tackle Linux desktop standards

Some big names in the computer industry are pledging to make the development of desktop applications for the Linux operating system much easier than it has been. Read more »

AJAX gives software a fresh look

An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications. Read more »

Microsoft announces work flow, graphics tools

Moving further into the world of business processes, Microsoft this week announced a plan to build work flow management into many of its products. Read more »

Microsoft apps for Linux on the way?

Rumours of greater collaboration between Microsoft and the open source community have been fueled by comments made the head of Open Source Development Labs. Read more »

Sun rebranding pushes the value of technology

A US$50m campaign is likely to promote Sun's work with utility computing, open standards and open source, as Sun tries to re-engage with customers. Read more »

Devlin to step down at Rational

Danny Sabbah will become IBM's general manager for Rational when Mike Devlin retires in the next few weeks. Read more »

Schwartz swipes at the GPL

The GPL imposes a 'predatory obligation to disgorge IP back to the wealthiest nation in the world' on its users, according to Sun's president. Read more »

Microsoft: Windows patch is flawed

Microsoft has acknowledged that a security patch issued in January for its Windows 98 and Windows ME operating systems may cause performance issues for customers who have downloaded the update. Read more »

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Put the dynamic in your DHTML

With Internet Explorer, you can attach behaviours to HTML elements, creating an object-oriented approach to page design. Phillip Perkins creates <DIV> objects contained in a bounding <DIV> that, when the user drags it, will continue on their directed courses within the bounding <DIV>. Read more »

Scripting Java with the Bean Scripting Framework

Want to support all the scripting languages for Java? The Bean Scripting Framework, BSF, enables you to do just that with a simple API. We'll show you how in this article. Read more »

Q & A with Linus Torvalds

When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun Microsystems' Solaris. Read more »

Delphi 2005 Architect Review

Borland's Delphi 2005 has just hit the streets here in Australia. Glenn Stephens takes the new IDE out for a spin. Read more »

Disruptions in the software fabric

COMMENTARY -- According to a recent Gartner report, companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft need to deliver more modular, bite-sized chunks of functionality, which would allow customers to update systems with more flexibility and speed. It's not exactly a new revelation. Read more »

Dynamic XML with the ASP.NET XmlTextWriter() object

Learn how to use ASP.NET code to dynamically build an XML file, and then apply that knowledge to create an RSS-compliant news file that you can publish on your Web site. Read more »

Let the games begin!

Feeling energised by the gold Australia is winning in Athens this year? You might want to leave those Speedos in your drawer because there are a few coding competitions out there that could not only win you fame but possibly help when finding your next job. Read more »

Playing the developer archaeologist

Have you ever been given another developer's code and tried to work out exactly how the last Neanderthal ever got their apps to work? Welcome to the world of software archaeology! Read more »

Does innovation matter?

Do we really care who invented what feature first? Read more »

Why open source is bad for Australia

Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »

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