Netbeans IDE expands its abilities on Ruby too. So far, you can find a lot of information concerning Ruby’s workability at Wiki’s Recent Changes page. For those, who wants to give it a shoot, I’d say it’s worth of trying. Daily changes in the Project Ruby can be found on the official Sun blog of Tor Norbye.
At the level of MS Office 2007, Microsoft and Apple Inc. , had a huge concern about the integration of Basic platform and macros creation on OS X platforms.
As the result of this problem, OpenOffice started to slightly move on OS X platform trying to recapture the market of this platform.
So far, Sun Microsystems also started to participate in the development process of OpenOffice, so hopefully it will become even better then it is right at the moment.
Working on one of my projects, I had to create some UML diagrams, not only for submitting it to the supervisors, but also for tracing the process of software development, and analysis stages.
I was really amazed trying to install new UML Modeler Plug-in for NetBeans IDE and seeing a nice shiny window:
“You can install the packages, but you won’t activate them!”
Just because of some dependencies incompatibility, their official website offered you a partial product: “Watch, but don’t touch!”
Hopefully, the development team decided to include some of those necessary plug-ins in the main part of NetBeans 6.0 version, so there would be no need of installing it again. From now on, I’ll have to switch to ArgoUML to finish up the stuff and patiently waiting for bug fixes of module dependencies 
ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene) is the building material of the future. This wonder polymer, a transparent plastic related to Teflon, is replacing glass and plastic in some of the most innovative buildings being designed and constructed today.
Great architecture works already use this material, it looks fascinating!
Seems that developers from