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Building quality code, not testing for quality
Involve quality in the entire application development process, instead of concentrating on it only from the software debugging stage, industry watchers have urged companies. Read more »
BT bets on open development
BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble? Read more »
Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'
Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. Read more »
Google open sources XML-alternative Protocol Buffers
XML, it seems, has run out of steam for Google. Google said Monday that it has created an open source project for a data interchange format called Protocol Buffers. Read more »
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard
Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard. Read more »
Microsoft's OOXML bid: No knowledge, no regrets
Microsoft admits it had no knowledge of software standards until deep into its bid to get Office Open XML approved by the International Organization for Standardization -- but there are no regrets over its tactics during the process. Read more »
UNIX group wants money to take on OOXML
A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Read more »
Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops
Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP. Read more »
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four. Read more »
Brazil joins OOXML appeal conga line
Brazil is to appeal the International Organisation for Standardisation decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500. Read more »
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Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK
The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »
Deploy Java applications with JNLP
Using the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) and Java Web Start for your next distributed application may be an attractive option. For instance, one advantage about JNLP applications is that they're self-installing and self-updating. Read more »
Easily test Web services with soapUI
The soapUI tool makes it much easier to test Web services during development. It's also useful for interacting with third-party Web services to get a better idea of what to expect (and what to include) in the response. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Process and parse XML with ease using Jakarta Digester
Get a brief introduction to processing XML with Jakarta Digester, including how it can be used to create pattern-matching rules for an XML document and to perform actions on the resulting collections. Read more »
Manipulating ASP.NET 2.0 browser support
ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to address browser support through browser configuration files. This set of files defines the capabilities for specific browsers. Read more »
How do I ... recursively scan directories with PHP's DirectoryIterators?
One of PHP5's most interesting new features is the addition of Iterators, a collection of ready-made interfaces designed to help in navigating and processing hierarchical data structures. Read more »
Manage relational data with the Java Persistence API
The Java Persistence API (JPA) is a Java framework that allows developers to manage relational data in J2SE and J2EE applications. The JPA is defined as part of the EJB 3.0 specification (which is part of the Java EE 5 platform). Read more »
HTTP and HTML: The paradox of dominance
The saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail," makes me think of the mess that we're in when it comes to the dominance of HTML and HTTP. Read more »
Develop slick Web interfaces with Ext JS
Ext JS provides the foundation for building Web applications with powerful user interfaces. Read more »
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Working with LINQ in Visual Studio 2008
One of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 is LINQ -- a query language that allows access to SQL databases, XML and local data stores with one interface. Read more »
Microsoft denies OOXML has 'proprietary hooks'
As Australia and various other nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Open Office XML becomes an ISO standard, the Redmond giant is attempting to downplay fears that OOXML adopters will be hooked into the company's technology. Read more »
Microsoft Office executive claims OOXML provides greater security than alternative document formats
Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said. Read more »
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Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- 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 »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
What's new in GWT 1.5?
-- I recently wrote an introduction to the Google Web Toolkit based on Lars Rasmussen's session at the Google Developer Day 2008 in Sydney. Following the introductory session Lars gave us a deeper insight into GWT, particularly what's new in version 1.5. Read more »
Lets Shindig!
-- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »
Social Skills
-- With Facebook usage on the decline, is OpenSocial the next big thing? Read more »
Adobe previews new Web dev tools
-- Want to see what's in store for Adobe CS4? Public betas of Dreamweaver and Fireworks are available for download at Adobe Labs. Read more »
Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote
-- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »
QuickTime and Firefox combine for insecurity
-- A vulnerability in Apple Software's QuickTime media player can be exploited to execute remote javascript code, or by tapping into Firefox's chrome engine can execute remote code of any kind. Read more »
Microsoft's two faces of SharePoint
-- One way or another, proprietary and open-source companies need an answer to SharePoint. Content is the center of the enterprise ecosystem, when all is said and done. SharePoint is Microsoft's answer for controlling the next decade of IT. Read more »
July book giveaway
-- Help out in the Builder AU forums and win a book! Read more »
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The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »
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Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »
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MyPerfect.com.au has potentialVictorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
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Club Builder: Seinfeld, Wiimotes and Woz
On this episode of Club Builder: Jerry Seinfeld is the new face of Vista, we learn how to make a cheap whiteboard, and Woz talks about Steve Jobs.
