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Granted I wouldn't usually be the one covering Visual Studio news, but this is an interesting one. There is a new addition to the list of MSDN's Channel 9 extensions for the workers of the .NET trade that tries to make a game out of your coding by adding achievements for certain coding practices.
It is common knowledge that the new major release of the Java Development Kit came out a few months back — JDK 7 is here, ladies and gentlemen! Alright, the news itself is not exactly recent, however since the commercial adoption is traditionally going to range from slow to very slow, it's unlikely that developers will get to use 7-only features for the next six months at the very least. This gives us plenty of time to go through these new features below, ordered by the convenience they provide (code examples are adapted from Java documentation referenced in "Resources").
As if Apple's mobile devices not supporting Flash was not enough to make anyone wanting to build web UI's look elsewhere, Adobe ceased development of Flash plugins for mobile browsers.