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NB Community Docs Spotlight: George Lantz

Hello Community Members,

The state of Missouri (USA) is called the "Show Me" state. This week, one of its citizens "showed us", the NetBeans Community, a new tutorial. This Missouran's name is George Lantz. George's Using the NASA World Wind Java SDK tutorial is only the first of what I hope will be many contributions from George.

Haven't seen it yet? Shame shame shame.

Just go to the NetBeans Community Docs Wiki. And after that, check out George's Blog.

George is the IT Administrator for a candle manufacturing company. He's also a freelance software/web application developer and occasionally does network consulting. Very fascinated with 3D applications, satellite and GPS technology, and digital mapping, George has a fondness for research and development projects, making something work when your not sure it will or can is fun and challenging.

This is what George has to say about NetBeans:

"I started using NetBeans a few years ago, mostly off and on. Until recently, I used Eclipse for most of my Java work, only because it has had alot of the market share. I always found Eclipse to be a little klunky and the UI a bit cluttered. Lately, especially after downloading and trying out NetBeans 6.0, I can see myself using the editor exclusively. The new 6.0 has made significant speed increases over older versions. Also, the Ruby on Rails editor is amazing! I have not found a great editor for RoR until now. I love NetBeans mainly because it is so clean. Everything is where it should be and easy to find. It has really made my Java and RoR programming more productive. I actually wrote a blog on this a few days ago."

Ready to contribute something yourself? It's easy. Just go to the NetBeans Community Docs Wiki and follow the instructions. Nothing could be easier (well, eating and sleeping are a little easier).

See you there!

--James

Posted at 07:56PM Sep 14, 2007 by branajam in Sun  |