Newscast for July 16th 2009

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• An article on SD Times claiming that Mono development is outpacing Java on Linux has caused some energetic debate this week
  
• http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33597
• http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2009/07/09/java-development-outpaces-c-development-on-all-platforms
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1536218/Silverlight-30-Released-Allows-Apps-Outside-the-Browser?from=rss

• Java Library of the Week - jrawio
• http://java.dzone.com/announcements/jrawio-150-released-and-should
• https://jrawio.dev.java.net/

• InfoQ has a roundup of news items about the possibility of Scala as a long term replacement for Java.
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/scala-replace-java

• A new conference taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 4th September called the "Commercial Users of Functional Programming".
• http://cufp.galois.com/

• Scala website of the week - ScalaCareers.com
• http://www.scalacareers.com/

• The NetBeans RefCard from DZone has been updated to cover NetBeans 6.7.
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/netbeans-ide-67-update

• Google has released a free and open NX server called NeatX.
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/2027224/Google-Releases-Open-Source-NX-Server?from=rss

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 1.0 of Trident, an animation library for Java applications.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/07/trident_10_offi_1.html
• http://kenai.com/projects/trident

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