Australian Technology

Archive: 01-2012

• Firefox 10 tooling closes in on Firebug

  Mozilla has launched Firefox 10, a release packed with an improved set of developer tools, and is the first release to be covered with extended support.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 31, 2012, 8:50 PM PST

• PC-BSD: a BSD for the workstation

  If I were to pick any BSD for everyday desktop use at the moment, then PC-BSD would be my first port of call.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 30, 2012, 10:19 PM PST

• Around the Grounds: Drupal wrap, Nokia in Oz, and the why of wat

  Get the wrap on Drupal Downunder 2012, Nokia announcing the date of its return to Australia, and is JavaScript as crazy as the haters suggest?

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 29, 2012, 8:54 PM PST

• Beware stricter Manifest checking in Android ICS

  Find out why your application is working fine in Gingerbread and on the Ice Cream Sandwich virtual machine, but why you cannot run it on an ICS physical device.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 26, 2012, 7:32 PM PST

• Linux.conf.au 2012 wrap

  Australia’s leading open-source conference is over for another year. Here’s the list of our entire coverage in one place.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 24, 2012, 8:59 PM PST

• Drupal drops IE7 support

  The popular content-management system is to leave IE7 behind.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 23, 2012, 4:25 PM PST

• Android workshops coming to AU/NZ

  Google will be staging a series of workshops for accomplished Android developers from next week.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | January 22, 2012, 8:06 PM PST

• Untested buggy UEFI headed for prime-time

  A leading Linux kernel developer says UEFI is big, bloated and bad for Linux.

  Posted by Stilgherrian | January 22, 2012, 7:24 PM PST

• Linux.conf.au 2012: planes, sounds and freedom

  For security researcher, software hacker and activist Jacob Appelbaum, the equation is clear. Anyone working on surveillance or censorship technology is part of a serious global problem.

  Posted by Stilgherrian | January 20, 2012, 6:48 PM PST

• Linux.conf.au 2012: cyborg lawyer demands source

  Lawyer Karen Sandler’s heart condition means she needs a pacemaker-defibrillator to avoid sudden death, so she has one simple question: what software does it run?

  Posted by Stilgherrian | January 19, 2012, 4:24 PM PST