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Chris Duckett

Chris Duckett
Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining the company as a programmer. He left CBS Interactive in 2010 to follow his deep desire to study the snowdrifts and culinary delights of Canada and returned to CBS in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia, determined to meld together his programming and journalistic tendencies once and for all.
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    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

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    Around the Grounds: WebSocket becomes RFC 6455, Geelong gets $100K

    One of the cornerstone technologies of the next generation of websites, WebSockets, has become standardised by the IETF, and the Victorian State Government has stumped up for ICT funding in Geelong.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | December 11, 2011, 3:56 PM PST

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    AtG: CityRail's USB woes, RIM double whammy, and Windows Store

    Did you know Sydney's RailCorp sells USB keys in pristine condition, complete with user information?

    Posted by Chris Duckett | December 7, 2011, 4:02 PM PST | Latest comment by HAL 9000

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    Using Twitter to power registration systems

    Why spend time writing, testing and maintaining your site's registration system when you can have third parties do all the heavy lifting for you?

    Posted by Chris Duckett | December 5, 2011, 8:44 PM PST | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto

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    Web devs: IE8 is the enemy

    It doesn't matter whether Chrome or Firefox is more widely used, as long as IE8 continues to be the newest Internet Explorer available for Windows XP.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | December 4, 2011, 4:41 PM PST | Latest comment by JCitizen

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    WebDU announces dates, calls for papers

    The web developer-focused WebDU conference has announced its 2012 dates for the Sydney-held event.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | December 1, 2011, 6:34 PM PST

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    GNOME launches extensions website

    A new site from the GNOME foundation allows users to install, disable, and remove extensions, all without restarting the desktop.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | December 1, 2011, 4:42 PM PST

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    Decoding VP8 and H.264 video with JavaScript

    A couple of new JavaScript libraries show a different way to route around the codec bickering for online video playback in HTML5.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 30, 2011, 3:57 PM PST

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    Linux Australia's Rusty Wrench award returns

    After an absence of four years, Linux Australia's award for outstanding service to the FOSS community is back.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 28, 2011, 5:06 PM PST

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    GNOME 3-based Linux Mint 12 released

    The latest release of Linux Mint, codenamed Lisa, was released today and comes with three different variations on the GNOME desktop.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 27, 2011, 6:25 PM PST

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    Around the Grounds: Facebook wants Aussie consultants, Kinect for Windows

    The social-networking giant is after Australian candidates to be selected to its Preferred Developer Consultant Program, and we add in a bit of Friday lightheartedness.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 24, 2011, 7:11 PM PST

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    Use Synergy for smarter desktop sharing

    VNC is great for remote desktops when the VNC server is actually in another location. But when you are desktop sharing between machines sitting on the same desk, there is a smarter way to do...

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 23, 2011, 5:02 PM PST

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    Windows 8: land of the timed deletion

    One of the "features" of Windows 8's set-up process is the timed removal of old Windows installs after a month of usage.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 21, 2011, 9:32 PM PST | Latest comment by gavin.burgess@...

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    Google's love/hate approach to JavaScript

    For a company that claims to be a champion of online and the web platform, Google's approach to JavaScript is far from consistent.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 21, 2011, 4:48 PM PST | Latest comment by nwallette

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    Monitor social sharing of URLs

    Need to know how many likes, retweets or +1s that your site has? A handful of public APIs and sites can have you on your way to monitoring whatever URLs you like.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 20, 2011, 5:22 PM PST

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    Around the Grounds: Aussie clouds and NSW dominates tech growth

    We find that New South Wales is the place to be for growing tech companies in Australia; we point out a summary of Australian cloud options; and we've got a little something about Star Trek Voyager.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 20, 2011, 3:02 PM PST

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    Fetching 64-bit Mozilla builds for Linux

    If you visit the Firefox website and download the build for Linux, you will receive a 32-bit version of the browser. For someone trying to avoid compatibility libraries, there has to be another...

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 15, 2011, 6:33 PM PST | Latest comment by SiO2

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    Full Android source code released

    The source code for Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 3.x Honeycomb has been released on Google's Android open-source project Git servers.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 14, 2011, 4:02 PM PST

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    All bets off as Flex put out to pasture

    Adobe's Flex framework is to be guided via an open-source governance model, with Flex's current roadmap to be replaced by the as-yet-unformed governance committee.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 13, 2011, 5:39 PM PST

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    Installing Windows 7 from USB

    As netbooks get more popular and optical drives become less and less of an assumption, there are many times when a USB install of an operating system is a far better choice than the old DVD/CD we...

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 10, 2011, 9:06 PM PST | Latest comment by wizard57m-cnet

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    Android Studio can fix Android development

    Google has finally decided to get rid of the Eclipse albatross from Android's neck.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | May 16, 2013, 7:29 PM PDT | Latest comment by jannie.nel

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    Dealing with Windows 8 Mail

    The Mail app that arrives with Windows 8 is essentially a web mail system and has no tools to set mail rules or automate spam deletion. But can one man get by on that alone?

    Posted by Tony McSherry | January 28, 2013, 4:00 PM PST | Latest comment by erikaf

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    Using placeholder text in HTML5 forms across all browsers

    The placeholder attribute on input elements is a handy timesaver, once we've dealt with old versions of Internet Explorer.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | September 6, 2012, 4:10 PM PDT

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    Combining Windows 8 and a Retina MacBook

    A new Microsoft operating system meets new Apple hardware; what's the worst that could happen?

    Posted by Chris Duckett | August 21, 2012, 4:47 PM PDT | Latest comment by arch_aya

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    A stuttered start with Office 365

    Weeks went by, and Tony McSherry was not able to finish his Office 365 set-up, all thanks to an intransigent domain registrar. One that was in the same corporation selling Office 365 subscriptions.

    Posted by Tony McSherry | May 26, 2013, 10:51 PM PDT | Latest comment by Gisabun

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    Assigning tasks your developers will want to do

    Getting developers to emotionally invest in tasks is the fastest way to improve motivation and performance.

    Posted by Ben Evans | June 2, 2013, 8:22 PM PDT | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson

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    Installing Windows 7 from USB

    As netbooks get more popular and optical drives become less and less of an assumption, there are many times when a USB install of an operating system is a far better choice than the old DVD/CD we...

    Posted by Chris Duckett | November 10, 2011, 9:06 PM PST | Latest comment by wizard57m-cnet

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    Programming for Android on Android

    Although it may sound counter-intuitive, it is possible to create fully fledged Android applications on Android devices. We take a look at the apps that allow it to happen.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | April 3, 2012, 8:02 PM PDT | Latest comment by jkameleon@...

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    How to set up printing from tablets and phones

    More and more user time is spent nowadays with mobile devices, but the lingering need to print remains for many.

    Posted by Tony McSherry | February 4, 2013, 7:22 PM PST | Latest comment by erikaf

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    Moving to Arch Linux from Fedora

    Chris Duckett details his move from Fedora to Arch Linux and learns that testing in a virtual machine is one thing, actually committing to change is another.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | August 7, 2012, 4:29 PM PDT | Latest comment by lsatenstein@...

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    Getting your Firefox tabs back

    Next time you get that sinking feeling that you've lost all your Firefox tabs, don't despair; there is a solution.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | January 29, 2013, 3:26 PM PST | Latest comment by Yorkshirelad90

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    Using Tor and Firefox config on Android

    It is possible to use Firefox and Twitter on Android with full Tor anonymity

    Posted by Chris Duckett | June 28, 2012, 6:40 PM PDT

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    Making a sortable ListView in Android

    Creating a list of items in Android is simple, but what if you want to make those items sortable by dragging them? Now things start to get interesting.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | February 21, 2012, 9:39 PM PST

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    A look at Internet Explorer 10 on Windows RT

    The new version of Internet Explorer comes in two varieties: a well-known desktop version and the new Windows RT version.

    Posted by Tony McSherry | January 20, 2013, 4:31 PM PST | Latest comment by Duke E Love

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    Hands on with HTC's Windows Phone 8X

    There's a lot to explore in Windows Phone, and the integrated UI across multiple Windows platforms, the familiar tools, and SkyDrive are hard to beat.

    Posted by Tony McSherry | January 7, 2013, 9:02 PM PST | Latest comment by Neon Zeon

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    Claim 25GB from Microsoft on updated SkyDrive

    Microsoft has updated SkyDrive to support Windows desktops, OS X and iPad -- but at the same time has revised the storage limit from 25GB to 7GB, unless you claim to reserve the existing 25GB limit.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | April 23, 2012, 10:14 PM PDT | Latest comment by SkyDriveBad

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    Prepare your https sites for Firefox 23

    An upcoming release of Firefox will prevent non-SSL non-display content loading on SSL pages.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | April 9, 2013, 9:47 PM PDT | Latest comment by Deadly Ernest

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    Set-up an environment for Android, Eclipse and PhoneGap

    PhoneGap is the cross-platform framework that allows developers to create mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript -- but getting going with the platform requires a few hoop jumps.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | October 31, 2011, 6:25 PM PDT

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    What applications are available on Windows RT?

    Tony McSherry looks at the desktop applications available on the Windows RT Surface tablet.

    Posted by Tony McSherry | December 17, 2012, 8:12 PM PST | Latest comment by spookyone1

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    Keeping an eye on Chrome's memory usage

    Keeping track of Chrome's memory usage is easier said than done when it is spread over multiple processes.

    Posted by Chris Duckett | October 14, 2012, 6:12 PM PDT

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