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News about software development

  • Optus and NICTA mobile app competition now open

    The annual Optus and NICTA ‘Unleash Your App’ competition has kicked off today, with Australian university students called on to develop Android-based applications for the chance to win $5000 in prize money.

  • 3D mapping revives underwater city

    A marine robotics team from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney has received top honours in Canon Australia’s Extreme Imaging competition for their 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece.

  • TechnologyOne to streamline legal aid in WA and SA

    TechnologyOne has partnered with Legal Aid Commissions of Western Australia and South Australia to update their Legal Aid Grants Management system.

  • A/NZ software companies awarded for innovation

    Australian and New Zealand software companies were honoured in Sydney at the 12th annual Consensus Software Awards.

  • Prophecy buys Snare developer InterSect

    Business software developer Prophecy International (ASX:PRO) has acquired a security software company in a cash-and-stock deal.

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Tutorials about software development
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    Are your developers unit testing?

    Recurring bugs in software development are normally a sign of a problem in the development process. Unit testing is one method used by development teams to solve this problem. At its core, unit testing is about writing a series of independent small tests to check that individual functions within the code base are doing the right thing.

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Features about software development

  • Programmers who defined the tech industry: Where are they now?

    Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair). But you know Gates' name, and the names of a few others.

  • Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

    People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.

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    Staying afloat in a sea of iPhone apps

    Just how lucrative is the iPhone App Store for a business in application development? Is it easy to achieve success or is money on app development better spent elsewhere? The top Australian iPhone app developers speak exclusively to Computerworld about success in the iPhone App store.

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    Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss

    Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. "Mature" programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day. Today's software development tools automatically perform complex functions that programmers once had to write explicitly. And most developers are glad of it!

  • King of the dynamic IDEs

    Komodo IDE 5 from ActiveState is the most comprehensive code editor and debugger available for enterprise teams that develop applications using a range of dynamic languages. Komodo's strong debugging skills are blended with broad-based coding support for Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, not to mention Tcl, Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, and many more. With powerful HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML support, Komodo is a great Web 2.0 companion as well.

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