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Thursday Aug 20, 2009

Netbeans C/C++ Configuration - (repeat event for those who missed out)
Come along and learn about Netbeans IDE. I will be running a walk-thru seminar which will guide you through the installing of Netbeans IDE and configuration of C/C++ support for the windows platform and Mac.Participants are encouraged to bring along their laptop and follow along.

Netbeans is a programming platform for coding Java, C, C++, Ruby, PHP and much more.

Date: Friday 21 August, 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: CB 2.7.4B (Building 2)

Refreshments and giveaways will be provided.

Please RSVP to michael.chan[AT]sun.com for attendance

Friday Aug 14, 2009

Come along and find about Virtualisation Technologies, Hard Partitions, Resource Management and Virtual Machines. Find out how you can access a free Virtual machine, allowing you to run multiple Operating systems on one PC.

This is a free event where snack food is provided.
To attend, please RSVP @ michael.chan[at]sun.com

Date: Thursday 20 August, 12pm to 1pm
Location: CB 03.04.12 (Bon Mache Building)

For more details and information on up coming events bookmark http://blogs.sun.com/chanman

The seminar slides Project Wonderland are available on OSUM.

Join the Open Source University Meetup for UTS.

http://osum.sun.com/group/utsosum

In future all seminar slides will be uploaded. There.

Not a member of OSUM. No worries. point your browser to osum.sun.com and sign up.

Once your signed up, find and join the UTS group. 

Sunday Aug 09, 2009

Come along and learn about Netbeans IDE. I will be running a walk-thru seminar which will guide you through the installing of Netbeans IDE and configuration of C/C++ support for the windows platform and Mac.Participants are encouraged to bring along their laptop and follow along.

This is a free event where snack food is provided.
To attend, please RSVP @ michael.chan[at]sun.com before the Monday 8pm.
Details: Tue 11th August 11-12pm Bld 4, Level 2, Room 33

The following events are planned for Week 3 and Week 4 of the Spring Semester.

Week 2: Events

Netbeans C/C++ Configuration  Tuesday 11th August 11-12pm Bld 4, Level 2, Room 33

Project Wonderland Thursday 13th August 12-1pm Bld 2, Level 7, Room 5

Week 3: Events 

Virtualisation  Thursday 20th August 12-1pm Bld 3, Level 4, Room 12

Netbeans C/C++ Configuration  Tuesday 21th August 3:30-4:30pm Bld 2, Level 7, Room 4B

To attend, please RSVP @ michael.chan[at]sun.com before each event

Thursday Mar 19, 2009

Following up on Netbeans, in particular the C/C++ support.

I will be running a walk-thru seminar which will  guide you for installing Netbeans IDE and cygwin C/C++ tools for a windows platform PC.

This demonstration is primary aimed to allow students to replicate the same steps on their PC at home.

Please RSVP to michael[DOT]chan[AT]sun[dot]com if you would like to attend the event.
The location is Bld 2, Level 7 Room 4B. (take the Bld 1 escalators up twice and then walk into Bld 2, and the room is near by)

Time 12pm -12:45pm, Wednesday 25th March 2009
Food and giveaways will be provided, but please RSVP for numbers.

Any other questions, just email me.

Thursday Mar 12, 2009

Following up on a question at the end of the previous tech demo on Wednesday 11th March.

Netbeans and C/C++

Netbeans 6.5 supports an array of languages. It has built in out of the box features for java, web programming and other languages, however C/C++ is there but you need additional libraries.

After downloading Netbeans full or C/C++ edition, you then need to download and install some C/C++ libraries on to your system. Windows you would need Cygwin, Solaris  you would need Sun Studio, Mac and linux should have pre-installed libraries.

To find out more visit this link: http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/cpp-setup-instructions.html

I plan to do a demonstration on installing C/C++ support for netbeans. Stay tuned for more details


Tuesday Mar 10, 2009

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Monday Mar 02, 2009


Watch and learn how to install Netbeans IDE on to your laptop.

NetBeans is a graphical Integrated and Development Environment for coders of C/C++, Java Mobile, Java, Applications, PHP, Ruby, SOA, SOAP and XML.

In an hour you will have the ability to compile in a dozen of other languages all from the one powerful IDE which is FREE and Open Source. Open Source guarantees that bugs and improvements will be made in a timely manner, providing confidence for the end-user.
> Participants are strongly encouraged to bring along a laptop so you they can follow along.>
> We will be focusing more on C/C++ and Java


This is a FREE event. Food is provided upon RSVP @ michael.chan[at]sun.com before the Wednesday 8am.
Details: Wed 4th Mar 12-1pm Bld 2, Level 7, Room 4B (room is near the Bld1 Lv6 Escalators)


For more details on up coming events see http://blogs.sun.com/chanman
Next Event: Wed 11 Mar Virtual Box and Open Solaris.

Wednesday Nov 26, 2008

The latest and newest version of NetBeans has arrived, 6.5!

 Netbeans 6.5 has improved support for:

  • PHP and Javascript
  • Debugging for Firefox and Internet Explorer
  • and most importantly for those who are already using Eclipse, it supports importing Eclipse projects

All this and the easy to use Matisse, Java GUI builder is included.

 Try Netbeans 6.5 Now. I have been using the beta version for 3 months, and I enjoy using it.

Try out NetBeans, you will be suprised at the experience.

Sunday Oct 12, 2008

My next technical demo will be on held on Tuesday 14th of October. The topic will be on Open Solaris and the Zeta-byte File System (ZFS). There will also be a short demonstration of the Dtrace debugger.

ZFS and DTrace

The presentation slides for my past Technical Demos are finally available for download:

Tech Demo1 - An Introduction to Open Solaris and its features
Thursday 11th September
> 08.09.11_IntroOpenSolaris.pdf (1.7mb)
> www.opensolaris.org

Tech Demo2 - Software Freedom Day
Friday 19th September
> 08.09.19_SFD_OpenSolarisInstal.pdf (2.8mb),
08.09.19_SFD_OpenSouce_Software.pdf
(1.7mb)
> www.softwarefreedomday.org

Tech Demo 3 - An Introduction to NetBeans IDE
Thursday 9th September
> 08.10.09_NetBeans.pdf (1.2mb)
> www.netbeans.org

Thursday Sep 25, 2008

My next Technical demo will be NetBeans IDE 6.1. It is a free multi-language, Integrated Development Environment. I will be giving a brief talk on the software, and also conduct a demonstration using one of its many languages to program.

Free food and givaways will be provided at the event

 An Introduction to NetBeans IDE

Thursday 09 October, 12-1pm

Please RSVP if you are intending to come at Michael.Chan[AT]Sun.com

Monday Sep 22, 2008

Hey there,

For those of you who attended Software Freedom  Day on Friday, you would recalled that I said I would post up the details on how you can sign up for Free online learning provided by Sun.

Unfortunately I can not publish the codes on the blog as is. So please send me an email  and I'll send the details to you. Or if you can wait I will send out a follow up email to software freedom day detailing the codes.

Michael

Software freedom day was a great success! Despite the holidays looming on and that half of the university wasn't there on the day. The event attracted a total of 10 people who were engaged and very interested in Open Solaris and Virtual Box.

There was a Live demonstration on how to Install Open Solaris using the Live CD in Virtual Box. There was also a demonstration on how to install other Open Source operating system in virtual Box. We Tried to install Kubuntu in virtual box.

There was Free Food and heaps of giveaway.

Overall a very successful day.