Australian Technology
When the sun sets in North America, that means it is time for Australia to take centre-stage and talk about development with an Antipodean view.
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Error handling in JavaScript: Rarely done, often needed
Error handling is one of those neglected practices in programming, and JavaScript developers, more than any other, seem to omit it from their projects.
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Video editors in Windows RT: Cinelab and Movie Edit Touch
Windows Movie Maker is available for free for Windows 8, but not for Windows RT. A search for 'video editor' in the Windows Store came up with two examples to look at.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Control Vim with voice commands
Struggling to grok Vim from the keyboard? Maybe voice commands are the solution.
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App by app, Google is bringing self-serving Intents to iOS
Google makes it easier for iOS app developers to integrate with Chrome.
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The realities of mobility and hitting the road
Over the past couple of years, the increase in connectivity has even changed the way people go on holidays.
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A lesson on piracy, distribution, or marketing?
Independent software companies have a hard task of getting their wares in front of an audience; has a pair of brothers cracked that nut?
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Get some JSON in your database
If you deal with JSON day in, day out, at least have a database that can handle JSON as well.
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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.
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The great browser shake-up of 2013
In a jam-packed 24 hours, Google announces it is forking WebKit, and Samsung teams up with Mozilla to develop a new engine.
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Microsoft simplifies IE testing with modern.ie
That bane of web developers, testing in IE, has had a little of the pain removed.
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IT pricing inquiry result: Australians are fools
At the end of last week, the IT pricing inquiry heard evidence from Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft — and the evidence is damning, especially for consumer behaviour.
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Stallman celebrates 30 years of Free Software by decrying SaaS
To the GNU project founder, it doesn't matter whether the cloud is using a free software stack, as it is still evil.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fixing Fedora's Wi-Fi with Wicd
If you've had trouble getting Fedora to connect to WPA2 Wi-Fi access points, then throw out NetworkManager and replace it with wicd.
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Get some JSON in your database
If you deal with JSON day in, day out, at least have a database that can handle JSON as well.
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An Outlook on Office 365
Office 365 has just been given a facelift and UI changes, as well as improvements to the social and communication aspects. Tony McSherry takes a look at the new Office 365, starting with Outlook.
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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
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Using your browser as a terminal
Web programming creeps into PuTTY-replacement territory, as we look at two browser extensions that allow SSH functionality.
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Securing passwords with Blowfish
In 2012, there's no excuse for not having a properly hashed table of user passwords.
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Windows Phone 7: using ListBoxes with Style
Adding a button to the end of a ListBox in Windows Phone 7 is a little more complicated than expected.
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Android is the next platform of choice for Windows developers
Google's open-source mobile operating system pips iOS as the next platform that developers want to deploy to, according to a survey by Embarcadero.
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Creating a quick and easy GNOME 3 extension
One of the good aspects of GNOME 3 is its extension framework. We take a baby step into this world by making an icon for the top panel.
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The impacts of virtualising each and every wheel
In the next few years, virtualisation is set to jump out of the server and inhabit the rest of the datacentre, and it's going to change your job.
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Adobe releases open Source Sans Pro font
The world and your programs just got a little bit prettier.