Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Tuesday October 21, 2008
NetBeans is turning 10 next week!
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NetBeans
is turning 10 next week! Wow, it's been 10 years and the IDE has certainly evolved tremendously over these years. My first usage of NetBeans goes back to version 3.6 (Mar 2004). The What's New list shows Code Folding, Native L&F for Windows and MacOS and Arrange Windows using drag-and-drop amongst many other features. And today, it leverages the mauturity of Java platform and incorporates comprehensive tooling for languages and frameworks other than Java such as PHP, Ruby-on-Rails, Groovy-on-Grails, C/C++, JavaScript, and many others. |
Read complete history of how Xelfi evolved into NetBeans IDE as you know today!
Don't forget to enter NetBeans Decathlon to receive a limited edition NetBeans 10th Anniversary Shirt. GlassFish is one of the featured projects and some suggestions to particpate are:
- Try the latest GlassFish v3 prelude build with v3 plugin
- Share your experience with NetBeans and GlassFish integration on forum thread
- Demo NetBeans/GlassFish to a friend and post a blog entry. Several demos are available here.
I wonder if that count towards getting the limited edition shirt ;-)
Anyway, participate in all the action on NetBeans Birthday. Enjoy birthday wishes from the NetBeans team who make it all happen seamlessly.
Happy Birthday NetBeans!
And miles to go ...
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Jim and I presented on "Using Comet to
create a Two-Player Web Game" at Ajax World 2008 West
yesterday. The talk explained the basic concepts of Comet, showed how a
Tic Tac Toe game can be easily created using code walkthrough and then
talked about future directions. The slides are available here
and the code can be downloaded here.
A similar sample that can be deployed on Rails and Grails is described here. It uses GlassFish's support for multiple dynamic languages and associated web frameworks. |
One of the benefits of delivering first talk in the morning is the ability to attend different sessions during the day. Of the different sessions I particularly enjoyed listening Bill Scott on Crafting Rich Web Interfaces.The talk explained six principles of rich web interaction with set of design patterns and real world examples. The slides are available here. All other sessions were mostly product pitches with very little value for developers.
Here are some pictures from the show:
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And a complete album is available at:
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