Australian Technology

Archive: 12-2011

• AtG: Work with Hawking, .NET hash fix, 28c3 and Pi vids

  Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule fix for a hashing vulnerability; there’s a technical job going with Professor Stephen Hawking; and plenty of security videos to watch over the holidays.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 29, 2011, 6:13 PM PST

• Around the Grounds: iiNet buys Internode, Raspberry Pi update, and VNC in JS

  The Australian ISP landscape just gotten a bit smaller; pictures arrive of the $25 computer that could; and now we can have VNC in a browser, thanks to Node.js.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 22, 2011, 3:24 PM PST

• Firefox 9 launches with type inferred JavaScript

  The cries of Firefox being slow will be subdued with the release of an improved JavaScript engine for Mozilla’s browser.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 20, 2011, 7:07 PM PST

• Try these languages in your browser

  If you want to learn a new programming language, its possible to get a small taste by visiting one of these websites before you start creating a new development environment.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 18, 2011, 5:04 PM PST

• Australia to lead IE6/7 sunsetting

  Automatic upgrading of Internet Explorer is coming to a desktop near you in 2012.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 15, 2011, 3:07 PM PST

• Microsoft opens up Messenger with XMPP access

  An XMPP interface has been exposed for Windows Live Messenger, allowing standards-compliant communication clients to make use of the MSN protocol.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 14, 2011, 8:56 PM PST

• Victoria heats up for January conferences

  Come January 2012, Victoria will be the place to be for technical conferences.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 14, 2011, 6:37 PM PST

• LinkedIn turns presentation to dust.js

  The social network for professionals has moved its presentation layer from off the server to the client via the dust.js library.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 13, 2011, 9:03 PM PST

• Atlassian uses FaceTime to create portal

  Admit it: you want your office to have portal video conferencing, too.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 12, 2011, 6:43 PM PST

• Use sessionStorage for quick form storage

  Rather than having lines of code on the back-end reserving form data, a couple of lines of JavaScript can make life easier.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | December 11, 2011, 9:20 PM PST