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Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »
UK govt to monitor all telecoms
UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country. Read more »
Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate
The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year. Read more »
Microsoft fixes DNS flaw but warns of Word attacks
Microsoft is warning that a Word flaw is being used for targeted attacks, and has also issued four 'important' patches, including one for a potentially serious DNS flaw in the latest Patch Tuesday bulletin. Read more »
Microsoft probing ActiveX attacks targeting Access feature
Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning about targeted attacks being launched that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system. Read more »
Red Hat dolls up Linux with embedded hypervisor
Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualisation strategy. Read more »
IBM may open source DB2
IBM is considering releasing its DB2 database-management software under an open-source licence. Read more »
Red hat buries patent hatchet with Firestar, DataTern
Red Hat announced on Wednesday that it has reached a settlement with Firestar Software and DataTern over a patent infringement lawsuit. Read more »
Google debuts Gears for Firefox 3
Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon. Read more »
Apple answers call for iPhone applications
Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again. 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 »
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 »
Delegate privileges to users with sudo
One of my favourite tools is sudo, a program that many users will be familiar with. Both Ubuntu and OS X popularised sudo by making efficient and default use of the program. Sudo allows regular users to perform commands as other users. Read more »
Encrypt backups using Oracle 10gR2's RMAN
No IT pros want their company to make headline news because of a data breach. You can make your data less vulnerable to theft by using a new feature in Oracle 10g Release 2 that lets you make encrypted backups via Recovery Manager. Read more »
AJAX should not mandate HTTP
AJAX applications rely upon the existence of an application server always being available, and many Web developers are assuming that the user will not want to save the Web page or lose network connectivity. This article discusses why this is a mistake. Read more »
Comparing SQL Server constraints and DML triggers
This article sheds some light on when to use constraints and when to use DML triggers. Read more »
Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »
Iterating through tables and databases in SQL Server
We look at two very useful stored procedures that live in the master database but are not mentioned in SQL Server Books Online. These system procedures come in very handy for jobs such as determining the space used, the number of rows, the indexes on the user tables, and so on. Read more »
Scripting the remove and disable mailbox attributes in Exchange 2007
This article describes how you can disable or remove the e-mail attribute from the Windows account yet retain the account. Read more »
Using NOLOCK and READPAST table hints in SQL Server
Table locking hints provide developers much tighter control of their transactions. Look at the benefits and disadvantages of using the NOLOCK and READPAST table hints in SQL Server. Read more »
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Explaining Google's BigTable
Google uses a proprietary, high performance and scalable database called BigTable. Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, explains BigTable and how it get the best out of it with AppEngine. Read more »
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 »
Ellison reflects on Oracle history
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison shares his insights into the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database. Read more »
Blog (34)
Repent Open Sourcerers
-- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Know when to walk away, know when to run
-- As a software developer, there are certain projects you want to avoid. For me, that is usually the project where the end-users design the entire application -- you know the type I am talking about. 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 »
Install Web stacks in an instant with BitNami
-- Need to set up a server environment to run Web applications such as WordPress, MediaWiki, Joomla, Trac, DocuWiki, or Drupal? Here's how to do it in less than two minutes with free software. Read more »
Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation
-- Sun has become its own free software foundation, open sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open source MySQL database for $1 billion in January of this year, as a way to grow its revenue. Read more »
Drop in on Builder AU at Open CeBiT 2008
-- Got a question on open source you need answered? Need a way to help convince your boss that open source is the way to go? Or just curious to learn what all the fuss is about?
Then drop in to the Builder AU Open Source Afternoon on Wednesday May 21. Read more »
Google App Engine meets Amazon EC2
-- What do you get when you cross Amazon's EC2 on-demand cloud computing infrastructure with Google's new App Exchange foundation for Web applications? Read more »
How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2
-- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »
Firefox 3's better performance and memory improvements
-- As beta 5 is due to come out next week, I take a look at some of the new features and improvements in Firefox 3. Read more »
Oracle's Agile PLM gains popularity
-- I recently spoke to Oracle about their Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, an integrated tool for managing information about a product throughout its lifecycle. Read more »
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Facebook's portal for the masses
This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »
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Do you trust data in the cloud?
Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »
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Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
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Club Builder: Honesty, WWIII and other minor annoyances
On this week's Club Builder we look at some local scientists who have made a break through in fibre throughput, a group of local lads win big in Paris and we hand out our first Honesty Award.
