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Sunday May 20, 2007

NetBeans Day Mexico City 2007

I'm on the plane returning from NetBeans Day Mexico City.  The turnout was great!  We had 455 people attend.  This was my first time to Mexico City and Mexico as well.  The people were very friendly.  I'd like to go back some time and see some sites.  I really wasn't supposed to be on this trip.  Gregg Sporar was supposed to go but got sick with the flu.  He called me on a Tuesday, I flew out on Wednesday, looked at the slides and demos for the first time on Thursday, and gave the sessions on Friday.  Overall everything went pretty well.  I did have some editor problems with NetBeans 6.0 M9.  Of course I had gone through the demos many times the day and moments before with no problems.  My Google Tool Bar demo didn't work for some mysterious reason.  I was really frustrated by this so I opened my laptop at the airport about one hour later, ran the demo and it worked.  Here's the proof.


The only explanation I can think of is that I was running in a lower resolution which might have caused the edit tool bar to truncate somehow.  I tried to reproduce the problem by changing the resolution but I could not reproduce this.  Oh well!

The crowd was wonderful.  They asked many good questions and were very much in tune with development issues.  Here's some shots of the actual conference




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Wednesday May 09, 2007

JavaOne 2007 BOF 9055 Slides

Thanks to everyone who attended my BOF Tuesday night.  I'm not sure how many people showed up.  I would guess somewhere around 30.  As promised, here are the slides from my BOF.  As soon as I get settled from JavaOne, I'll start blogging all the details.

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Friday May 04, 2007

NetBeans Day On The Brain!

Got NetBeans Day on the Brain?  You should.  Don't forget it's happening Monday, May 7, 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  This will be a great opportunity to see what's up and coming for NetBeans.  The NetBeans 6.0 Preview  will be showcased heavily.  One of the great aspects of this years NetBeans Day is getting a free day at JavaOne.  That's right!  You get one day, Tuesday, access to JavaOne.  Here's the paragraph from the flier.

"CommunityOne attendees who are, or become, Sun Developer Network members are also invited to experience the 2007 JavaOne Conference on Tuesday, May 8. Enjoy the complimentary one-day access to the general sessions, the JavaOne Pavilion and Welcome Reception, and two (2) technical and/or BOF sessions. RSVP early to reserve your place. Please Use
Priority Code C71AWM. "

The JavaOne Pavilion is where you get all the good Swag.  Remember when you're going for Swag, try not to have the glazed look in your eyes while you eye the Swag.  This is a dead giveaway that you really don't care about things like, "Clustering in the New Time Space Continuum".

Also, there will be some great prizes given out at NetBeans Day.  Check out Roman's blog for more info.

It's not too late!  Get registered now.


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