From the Update that Resume dept.:
Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google said Friday it cannot participate in the upcoming JavaOne conference. The Oracle-sponsored JavaOne conference, formerly a Sun Microsystems event, is being held in San Francisco the week of September 19. Oracle is suing Google over alleged misuse of Java patents in the Android mobile platform. In a blog post, a Google official lamented the situation.

"We wish that we could [present at the show], but Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally. This is a painful realization for us, as we've participated in every JavaOne since 2004, and I personally have spoken at all but the first in 1996," said Joshua Bloch of the Google Open Source Programs Office.

Ubuntu Software Center is something we all overlooked for long. Even while writing tutorials about installing different applications in this blog, I prefer to provide command line instructions only. But a lot of Ubuntu users are new comers and Software Center means a lot to them. Ubuntu is gradually waking up to this fact and have finally started focusing on bringing a lot of polish and usability to Software Center.

RazorSQL is a database query tool, SQL editor, database browser, and database administration tool with support for all major databases. Some of the main features included in RazorSQL are visual tools for creating, viewing, and altering database objects; tools for importing and exporting data; and tools for editing stored procedures, triggers, and functions.

Changes: This release adds auto connection options and minor bugfixes.

Tags: Database, Front-Ends

Licenses: Shareware

EditRocket is a text and source code editor with support for over 20 programming languages. It provides features and tools to help developers edit, create, navigate, and debug source code and search and manipulate text.

Changes: This release adds support for executing ant build files, contains compiler enhancements, and also includes other minor enhancements and bug fixes.

Tags: Text Editors, Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

Licenses: Shareware

Oracle suing Google over Java could be a good thing for MeeGo. If any good is to come out of Oracle suing Google over Android, the one to benefit could be MeeGo, the Intel-Nokia joint-venture mobile operating system.

From the Broken Record dept.:
While Microsoft hasn't formally rescinded its declaration that Linux violates its patents, at least one Microsoft executive admits that the company’s earlier battle stance was a mistake. Microsoft wants the world to understand, whatever its issues with Linux, it no longer has any gripe toward open source.

In 2010 Microsoft is trying hard not to be public enemy No. 1 to open source proponents, in some cases by making key contributions to open source code and in other cases by making Microsoft products interoperable with open source software.

"We love open source," says Jean Paoli of Microsoft in a recent interview with Network World. "We have worked with open source for a long time now."

The introduction of long-awaited copyright reform legislation has generated considerable discussion among Canadians about whether the latest bill strikes the right balance. While concern over Bill C-32's digital lock rules has garnered the lion share of attention with expressions of concern from all opposition parties and a wide range of stakeholders, the other major issue in the bill is the extension of fair dealing -- Canada's version of fair use -- to cover education, parody, and satire.

Proview is a PDF editor that allows you to merge and split files; rotate, flip, and scale individual pages or all pages; crop pages; and modify the document information. It can edit encrypted files, and can decrypt and encrypt PDF documents. You can also manage PDF bookmarks, add or remove PDF attachments, and add text and dates to one or more pages. Proview has a simple, clean interface with all functions easily accessible, and it comes with full interactive help.

Changes: A visual crop feature was added. A new Page tab was added in Inspector for editing page boxes. Many improvements and bug fixes were made. This version is almost twice as fast as before.

Release Tags: PDF, mac, OS X, split, merge

Tags: PDF, split, merge, encrypt, decrypt, stamp, Bookmarks, annotate, Attachments

Licenses: Shareware

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 10.04 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been enhanced to utilize modern libraries. It also provides basic command line utilities.

Changes: Crashes in the PS output device, on some malformed files, and with nameless layers were resolved. Rendering of some documents involving tilingPatternFill was fixed in the Cairo output device. ColorTransform is now handled properly in DCT streams when using libjpeg. Padding of names in pdftoppm was fixed.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Text Processing, Software Development, Libraries, printing, multimedia, Graphics, Viewers, Graphics Conversion, Editors, Vector-Based

Licenses: GPL