JamesBranam's Blog
Goodbye 2008
Hi all,
This is my last blog entry for the year 2008. I've blogged 227 times this year, about a variety of topics (mostly NetBeans). I enjoy blogging. It puts me in touch with the community, making me much more approachable by community members.
2008 was a great year. Here is a sample of what I was able to witness or take part in (I've tried to put them in chronological order):
- Sun's acquisition of MySQL
- NetBeans switching from CVS to Mercurial
- Sun presentations in Second Life
- 100th NetBeans Community Docs contribution
- The release of NetBeans 6.0.1
- The creation of a NetBeans Community Docs blog
- New Woodstock components in the NB Palette
- My visit to St. Petersburg, Russia
- Big Database changes in NetBeans IDE (ongoing)
- The release of NetBeans 6.1
- A new Contribution Coordinator for NetBeans Community Docs: Varun Nischal
- A new bundle: NetBeans 6.1, GlassFish, and MySQL
- PHP support in NetBeans
- JavaScript support in NetBeans
- Zembly is a big hit on Facebook
- JamesBranam's Blog's 300th blog entry
- Sakila sample database available as a plugin
- NetBeans Community Docs gets two evangelists: Kristian Rink and Aristides Villarreal
- NetBeans IDE 10th birthday celbration
- Three years at Sun Microsystems
- The release of NetBeans 6.5
- New Python support in NetBeans IDE
- More database changes underway (ongoing)
- 275th NetBeans Community Docs contribution
- ICEfaces Migration Guide made available for developers wishing to switch from Woodstock
As you can see, 2008 was a very successful year for NetBeans (and this technical writer). 2009 could prove to be a challenging year, with the financial crisis in full swing. I hope that I'll have the opportunity to continue blogging for Sun for a very long time.
Happy New Year, everyone!
See you in 2009.
Cheers!
-James
Posted at 02:36PM Dec 31, 2008 by branajam in NetBeans | Comments[3]
Yes,
Short year, with big progress ...
Thanks.
Posted by slim ouertani on December 31, 2008 at 06:19 PM CET #
Sun's acquisition of MySQL was complete nonsense. They should have focused on supporting PostgreSQL and not buying a technologically inferior DBMS.
Posted by Thomas on December 31, 2008 at 06:44 PM CET #
That was an eventful & amazing year...
I am glad to be part of some of those activities...
Happy New Year, My Friend :D
Posted by N, Varun on January 01, 2009 at 01:40 PM CET #