Mirah brings Ruby niceties to Java – currently for writing simple applications in what looks like Ruby but is actually Java, Mirah is still in its infancy with release 1.0 planned for later this year

After weeks of issues, Twitter Opening Its Own Data Center in Salt Lake City to mitigate downtime

Microsoft WebMatrix Is A Good Intro To Web Development – if you’re starting out in web development WebMatrix is a tool that will help – and you don’t have to use .NET, you can build using PHP too

PHP 5.2 support ends just as its adoption begins with the launch of 5.2.14 – better get migrating then!

Firefox 4 Beta 1 Now Available for Download – focus is mainly on improved speed, plus integrated Feedback button so you can report what features made you happy or sad

Microsoft Links Free SQL Database with ASP.NET – Free SQL CE database now works with ASP.NET web applications

Faster Apache Cayenne 3 for Java Framework. Four years after the last major Cayenne release, version 3.0 gives enhanced performance and ease of use

Introducing WebMatrix – the free Microsoft web development suite is now available in public beta, including web server, a database, a web framework, and a development environment – plus you can choose to build with open-source web applications

Set to be released in August, Ruby 1.9.2 on its Way. The first Release Candidate includes a new set of character encodings and a multiple random number generator

Microsoft Delivers Silverlight for Symbian – Developing for Symbian? Get your Silverlight tools from the Nokia Ovi Store

jCamp – JSOP 2010 is gearing up – Joomla! student outreach program links students and mentors from all around the world to work on a project for three months (during summer) under mentor’s guidance

Windows Phone 7 gets open source database – McObject’s Perst is an Open Source database management system and manages record-based data kept in WP7′s “Isolated Storage” area

Firefox 3.6 Release Notes – the new release includes a number of fixes including security and stability issues

Java Verified Launches Simple J2ME App Testing - new Simple App testing criteria reduces the amount of time and money it takes to test many Java ME applications

Share the work! Opera comes with SharedWorker support – Dion Almaer of Ajaxian explains all

Want to know more about Azure? Here’s a FREE 96 page book – Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches Volume One covering everything from getting started to implementing best practices for elastic applications

Printing in a Smartphone Age – HP launched new printers with web access, touch screens and their own email addresses, so customers can print from web services like Office Web Apps or Google Docs and from smartphones

Drupal 6.17 released improving session cookie handling, browser compatibility of CSS and JS aggregation and better PHP 5.3 and 4 compatibility

Microsoft passes the 10,000 customer milestone with Azure – 50% of customers using Azure are running their applications in steady state (as replacements for on-site/on-premises software)