Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede is out!

There are no download from official Eclipse site, only Eclipse "friends" can download it now.
But you can use this link instead:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/eclipse//technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/R/

WinXP Acer Recovery Tool

For a long time I'm using some Linux PC's, but my girlfriend has Acer Travelmate laptop with a Windows XP. You know that this operation system need to be reinstalled after 1-1.5 years of use. And last evening I've done it with my girlfiend's laptop. I've made some investigations and have found an easy way to do this: just press Alt+F10 when boot up your laptop and you will enter into Acer recovery console where you can make a fresh Windows XP install without any problem. It loads all the data from an hidden hdd partition, and there no need for any Windows installation CD. After 15 minutes you have a laptop with a fresh WinXP, with all required drivers and software, all configured for this laptop and so on, like it was just bought. It'd saved me much time.
I think it's a useful cooperation of software developers and hardware producer.

Free and open Java

There are many rumors about free and open java. Yeah, i think it's a great step. If it works like a standard Sun Java it's very very good. Last time i've used it was about 1-2 month ago. Maybe it wasn't latest version on those day, i don't know, it come in with an regular Ubuntu update, but Eclipse just stop working after this :( I spent about one hour until realizes what is happened.
BTW, if it opened now i think it can make easier to fix bugs (there was too many minor bugs, where patch presents, but not fixed for a long time, in some cases more that a few years) and performance optimizations and improvements (maybe some one will make a tail recursion optimization for java, for example?)

About this blog

Hi! My name is Igor, i'm software architect at Moscow, Russia and it's my blog about software development. I've stated this blog personally for myself, for improving my English skills. If you had found some good article there it's good for you, but if you found an mistake (and notified me about it) it's very good for me :)
Ok. Lets start blogging!