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Google Chrome: 3.8% browser share

Just a week after its launch, there are more ZDNet.com.au readers using Google Chrome than Apple's Safari browser. Meanwhile, Microsoft Internet Explorer now accounts for just 53 per cent of all browsers. Read more »

Safari, Firefox charge towards a more colourful Web

Apple's Safari browser is able to display richer, more deeper colours than either Internet Explorer or Opera -- but Firefox is expected to catch up in the next month. Read more »

Canonical wants open-source cooperation

Ubuntu Linux backer hopes its Launchpad site will help open-source projects match Microsoft's collaboration abilities. Read more »

End of the ActiveX era?

ActiveX is out and AJAX is in -- this is the message from .NET-based CMS provider Ektron Read more »

Squiz bows to GPL pressure

Local software vendor Squiz has re-licensed its MySource Matrix tool under the popular GNU General Public License, nearly two years after facing criticism the software's previous licence wasn't open enough. Read more »

Business Objects Gets a Diamond the Rough

New developer site consolidates sample code, forums, videos and documentation into one spot for Business Objects developers. Read more »

Joomla open source CMS prepares for prime time

It's been a hectic six months for the Joomla open-source CMS since its split from the Mambo project, but an even busier six weeks lie ahead. Read more »

Miro backflips on Mambo copyright

Melbourne software company Miro will assign the intellectual property inherent in its open source Mambo content management system to the non-profit organisation it created to administer the application, despite earlier avowals not to do so. Read more »

Government backs renegade open source licence

The federal government's recently-launched open-source content management system does not meet industry standards, local software developers and a leading IT lawyer claim. Read more »

Zope launch next-generation application server

The open-source organisation has released the first version of Zope X3, which has been completely rewritten to improve the architecture. Read more »

Features (25)

My move from VB.NET to C#

The author confesses why he stuck with VB.NET for so long rather than moving to C# and reveals how life has been now that he's taken the plunge. Read more »

The spider's Web of CSS

Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Gian Sampson-Wild

Gian Sampson-Wild is an accessibilty expert and one of the speakers at this year's Web Directions conference to held in Sydney this year. Builder AU interviewed Gian via email prior to the commencement of Web Directions to talk about accessibility, how to make it a part of the development process and where to from here. Read more »

Garbage collection tuning in Java 5.0

Memory management is a major factor that affects software application performance. More time is usually spent allocating and deallocating memory than performing actual data computation. Read more »

How to choose an open-source CMS

Seth Gottlieb, content management practice lead at Optaros, explains how one should go about selecting an open-source content management system. Read more »

Develop WYSIWYG content management

Need to develop a Web-based What You See Is What You Get content manager? Here are a few options you might want to try. Read more »

The LAMP development toolkit

Need to dust up your Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL (LAMP) software stack skills? Our LAMP development toolkit is just what you need. Read more »

Architecting a CMS in ASP.NET

ASP.NET offers a wide range of integrated functionality to support in-house content management system solutions. We discuss the basics of tiered CMS architectural models. Read more »

Building a simple content management system with Yaapi and PHP

Learn how to build a content management system for your web site using Yaapi and PHP. Read more »

Creating a Community with DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is an open source CMS based on ASP.NET. Builder AU Technical editor, David McAmis introduces DotNetNuke and how to get it up and running in no time. Read more »

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Blog (2)

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 »

Drupal gets a Second Life framework

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Objects in the Second Life virtual world can now be more easily integrated into Web sites running the Drupal content management system thanks to a new third-party module creator released this week. Read more »

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