The life of a CA Copenhagen Campus Connection

Thursday April 30th OpenSolaris and NetBeans technology evangelist Roman Strobl paid us a visit in Denmark and did a super talk on the NetBeans IDE - about 22 people showed up despite the fantastic weather and the pre-May 1st celebrations - and Roman did a whole lot of demo'ing of NetBeans - which left people very quiet and attentive throughout the talk. One of the attendees were actually in the middle of implementing a working git repository plug-in for NetBeans!

After about 1 hour we had a small break, in which there was served bagel-sandwiches and refreshments - Sun had also provided for a lot of free stuff for the attendees - t-shirts, coffee mugs, OpenSolaris 2008.11 DVDs and Getting Started on OpenSolaris mini-books which swiftly disappeared.

After the break there was a small presentation on HackLab, which is a new initiative in Denmark - trying to get people working together on larger (open source based) projects. We also talked a little about project Kenai. Afterwards a couple of us went to a local microbrewery called Bryggeriet right beside TIVOLI and continued the informal talking.

It was a really nice event. A big thanks to Roman for a splendid talk

Today - Thursday April 30th - we have the pleasure to introduce NetBeans and OpenSolaris technology evangelist Roman Strobl. Roman has approximately 10 years of software development experience in Java and various dynamic languages. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences including Sun Tech Days, various Java events, and user group meetings. He enjoys working with open source communities and his current passion is evangelizing OpenSolaris and NetBeans.

Roman will be visiting us as part of a Central Northern Europe University tour, where he will talk about The NetBeans IDE and NetBeans plug-in development.

NetBeans is an Integrated Development Environment much like Eclipse. NetBeans began in 1997 as Xelfi, a student project under the guidance of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. Roman Stanek later formed a company around the project and produced commercial versions of the NetBeans IDE until it was bought by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Sun open-sourced the NetBeans IDE in June of the following year. In October 2008 NetBeans celebrated its 10th year anniversary.

The talk will take place at DIKU, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 København Ø, auditorium Lille UP1 at 5 pm.

There will be a sandwich, refreshments and a couple of give aways for the attendees.
Please sign up for the event.