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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.

Are you one of those hip Eee-owners?
If yes, then check out http://code.google.com/p/opensolaris-liveusb-for-eeepc/

It makes it darn easy to install OpenSolaris on your Eee.

If you need any help there is a discussion list on
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/eeepc-discuss

Or if you are located in Denmark - feel free to join the Danish OpenSolaris User Group (DOSUG) (www.dosug.dk) and ask your questions at our mailinglist. And while you are at it - make a big fat mark in your calendar on April 30th - where OpenSolaris technology evangelist Roman Strobl will visit us for the CNE University tour.

Sun has announced the launch of the JavaFX Coding Challenge, a coding contest that offers both professional and student developers a unique opportunity to win up to $25,000 USD (thats a hell of a lot of money!) in cash and have their application featured on the JavaFX.com website.

Developers and students are required to create and develop rich internet applications (RIA) using JavaFX 1.1 and NetBeans 6.5. The call for entries is open to persons of legal age in more than three dozen countries.

Sun is offering a number of prizes, with a top award of $25,000 USD in addition to cash prizes of $10,000 USD and $5,000 USD. There is a special category for students at an accredited college or university, with three $1,500 USD cash prizes that will be awarded to the top student applications. Students will not be limited to competing in this category, and are eligible to vie for the larger prizes as well. Additionally, Sun will award up to 100 honorable mentions, which will each earn a $25 Amazon gift certificate.

Java FX is a runtime with supporting tools and technologies that enable content authors and developers to create new content that combines the best capabilities of the existing Java platform with new immersive media services, which can be securely accessed from mobile phones, desktop browsers, TV and other consumer devices. The JavaFX platform is unique in that it allows content developers to focus on creativity, and not coding, while enabling them to create expressive content through the use of one platform across multiple media assets. The latest JavaFX Mobile platform was released in February.

The contest runs from now through May 29th. The entries will be judged by a panel of experts, to include members of the JavaFX engineering and product marketing teams. The winners will be announced during the week of June 29th.

The details of the contest can be found at http://www.javafx.com/challenge - now go go go make some fun apps!