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VMWare released a new product called “VMWare Player“. Its freely downloadable from their homepage. If you’re thinking of “Acrobat Reader” you know where this is heading to.

Read another thread on TheServerSide about Java performance gains in Mustang (Java 1.6). You can find comparisons done with Javalution here. Javalution itself is a replacement for Java collection classes that results in a performance boost up to 40%. The downside seems to be less checks in the implementation like those that give you ConcurrentModificationExceptions. The library was also written with real-time requirements in mind. See an introducory presentation here.

I migrated this blog from BBlog to Wordpress. I started to look for Wordpress when I realized that every Blog client had MoveableType and WordPress as the minimum supported blogs on their list. Not that I’ve been unsatisfied with BBlog, it met all my blogging needs. It’s just the tool support which led to my decision, another example of networking effects. And btw. after playing around a bit I have to say that Worpress really is a fine piece of software. For a good comparison of different blog software head over to BlogHaus.