TechRepublic Staff

By now you can probably see the new look Builder AU Web site. Not bad, don’t you think?

What are the skills you need to keep in demand? We asked employers, recruitment agencies and training companies what skills will be in demand for 2006 and beyond.

Industry experts are warning of a looming IT skills shortage in the near future if measures are not taken to attract graduates, women, and workers from non-IT backgrounds, to retain mature age workers, and to provide for more flexible working conditions.

IBM has called for tighter regulation of patents and a review of intellectual property ownership issues in collaborative software development.

While roaming profiles ensure that users can access their personal settings from multiple machines, they can easily grow in size, resulting in sluggish logons. Learn two ways you can control the size of roaming profiles in Windows NT.

Macromedia plans to ramp up the performance of the next version of Flash by incorporating technology to make video playback faster.

Sun has backed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open source flavour by making a similar promise for its Java technology.

Talk in the industry is that there are too many “cowboy developers” who don’t follow proven processes or methods, undermining the software engineering industry.

Have you ever thought, “I could do better than that” after reading an article on a developer Web site or in a magazine? If so, here’s your chance to prove it.

Welcome to the all new Builder AU Web site, a community-driven site written by developers, for the Australian developer community.

Instead of wasting disk space with stored values, you should use calculated fields whenever possible in a database. Simply follow these steps to create your own calculated fields for queries.

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