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The OpenOffice.org 3.0 suite of productivity applications arrives Monday, but, as noted at Download Squad, you can get it today. The OpenOffice team has posted it to a number of mirror sites. The list to check is here. As Download Squad notes: "Just pick one in your region, navigate to the folder marked 'stable' and grab the appropriate files for your operating system from the '3.0.0' folder." If you want the Windows version and not the Linux version, FileHippo has it available today. Here's more on what's under the hood.

The developers of RText, a pure Java programmers text editor have split out the syntax highlighting component of their text editor into it's own project: RSyntaxTextArea. This component seems to be very mature, and extensible. Also appears to be pretty easy to add new languages to the editor; either provide a JFlex lexer or code one my hand.

In this interview we talk with Mik. In specific, we talk about: Building a commercial offering on an open source foundation Extending and evolving programmer tools for non-programmers Defining a task-oriented information-management paradigm Bridging academic, open source, and commercial models The roles of open and proprietary information in spurring innovation The economics and ethos of open source and proprietary methodologies

Manik is looking for feedback on the new features and performance characteristics, including: performance under load, performance in large clusters, and backward compatibility against code written for JBC 2.x.

The new soapUI 2.5 release includes comprehensive support for testing REST/HTTP services. soapUI now allows you to define REST Services, either from a WADL or just by specifying endpoints, parameters, methods, etc. and supports XML, JSON and HTML representations for assertions and complex testing functionality.

The motherlode of useful screencasts to help you get more results from JBoss Tools and SEAM.

A reusable PHP "Profile" class that makes profiling methods simple, and helps you find parts of your code that need optimisation. You specify the method and the number of invocations and you can get all sorts of useful information, such as the maximum execution time, average execution time, and total time.

The source code control problem was supposedly solved years ago, now free for non-complex environments in many cases. So why are so many developers still blogging about their problems with source code control?

Bliki in a Jar is a small Wiki server written in Java with focus on supporting the Wikipedia syntax. It is intended to run on an USB stick as a replacement for a paper notebook as a Personal Information Manager (PIM). After running the file bin\start.cmd (Windows) or bin/start.sh (Linux) the wiki homepage http://localhost:3003/wiki will be opened in your default webbrowser and you are ready to create and edit your own personal wiki pages.

Gant is a build tool that uses both Groovy and Ant. With Gant, you describe your build process using Groovy scripts. Stated simply, Gant allows you to specify the build logic using Groovy instead of XML. Meera introduces you to this tool, compares it to Ant, and gets you up and running!

Under the new policy all bugfixes after three months will be available only in subscribed releases. What else can we expect from SpringSource?