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Have you upgraded to Firefox 3.5? Read a review of its new features.

Eclipse Foundation released Eclipse Galileo on 24^th June. Netbeans released version 6.7 on 29^th June. Nice to see healthy competition from both sides . Download the latest versions of Netbeans and Eclipse.

An amazingly thorough analysis of Microsoft’s current stand by Christian Gross.

Get it from the Early Access Release Channel.

I have been test-driving Netbeans 6.7 RC 2 for two days now. Has been pretty stable. It is also the first version with native Maven support.

JavaFX is now available for Linux, Solaris and Mac. Finally, now I can try this technology (I use Linux at work and home)!

My print article in Linux For You (LFY) May 2009 Testing RESTful WebServices Made Easy is now available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Multi-touch is one of the areas where there is no standard in Java. I believe some of the vendors might have developed custom multi-touch APIs for Java. But wouldn’t we, as developers, prefer some standard API which would work across multiple vendors? Richard Monson-Haefel, an eccentric genius whose work spans Java and multi-touch world, has taken the initiative to call for participation in this standardization process. Interested people, please join him in creating history!

The important feature update in this release is the inclusion of Garbage-First Garbage Collector (aka G1). Download JDK 6 update 14.

At last, at last, some action is going on in this direction!

Clojure 1.0 released. About Clojure from the Clojure website:

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

The biggest threat to MySQL future is not Oracle per se, but that the MySQL talent at Sun will spread like the wind and go to a lot of different companies which will set the MySQL development and support back years.

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This is the saddest news of this recession. I do not know how many SUN sponsored OpenSource products will loose their financial lifeline. This is SUN’s demise.

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Version 2.2 of my favorite OpenSource virtualization software, VirtualBox is released. On reading the changelog, I found the new version supporting Open Virtualization Format. This is cool because, now it will be possible to share virtual appliances built with different tools.