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After an announcement on the Learning Lab blog, I had signed up for the on-line REAP (Re-Engineering Assessment Practices) conference that took place between 29th and 31st May last week. And then with examination assessment and other distractions, promptly forgot all about it. Because I also neglecting my email, I also missed all the reminders that appeared in my in-box until Thursday lunchtime. So I was only able to catch part of the final on-line discussion session!...

Eric Amstrong has published a nice summary of some of the main topics that caught his attention at this year’s JavaOne. The topics are listed as: Scripting Languages on the JVM Improved JRE Insallations Java Quick Start Service Java Modules Java 7 Language Java 7 Tools User Interface Testing with FEST Sun ID System DITA Pod Writing DSLs in Ruby and I have highlighted the ones of particular interest to me....

Dion Almaer has provided a nice new portal to the Google Tech Talk Showcase of tech videos that are hosted on Google Video. I’ve been picking these up from a search feed that looks for the engEdu tag on Google Videos and watching the videos for a couple of months now. Dion’s new showcase site now puts everything in one place. Of course, there’s also an RSS feed that in Google Reader shows you the videos right there in your feed....

Dion Almaer [blogs](http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-developer-day-fantastic.html) about the Google Developer Day which took place at several locations worldwide on 31st May. I stumbled upon the announcement of [Google Gears](http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQyha30nm6k) yesterday among the growing collection of [YouTube](http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=GoogleDeveloperDay&p=r) videos recorded at the various events. Expect to see follow-ups and links to comments on this event and the technologies announced at Dion’s [Google Code Updates](http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com) blog and reviews of some of the key videos here. Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire....

Charles Nutter has today [blogged](http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/06/jruby-100rc3-released-and-this-is-it.html) that JRuby 1.0.0RC3 has been released and that this is expected to be the final release candidate before the release of 1.0 which will follow later this week. Time to try it out I guess! Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).