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Thursday May 08, 2008 |
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Failed demos at JavaOne
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I decided to collect and list all the demos that failed during JavaOne in this post. Because I'm not able to visit all the general sessions I'd be very glad to get some tips from my readers.
It quite usual that the demo fails just and only during the presentation. I call it demo effect. You can test/dry-run how many times you want but it will happen anyway  I'm QA guy therefore I know that there isn't anything like bugless software. However I don't get it why all the bugs appear at presentation time.
Failed demos list
- Kindle doesn't download - however it works when you are not on the stage. For Ian it works even from a seat in first row.
- Java FX Connected Life - failed 3 times. Poor Nandini, she did it again
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( May 08 2008, 04:44:43 AM CEST )
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Monday May 05, 2008 |
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[J1-2008] Day -2 : Glassfish and dim sum
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Sunday. It started as day off. We decided to have a small dim sum brunch at Chinatown. Jarda came up with the idea. And I have to thank him. It was unsharable experience.
We walked through the Chinatown to look for a dim sum restarant. Most of them were closed. It was 10 AM. By accident we found a nice one. It was somewhere on Washington street. There were just us and the local Chinese people. Altrought the menu was in Chinese only the ordering of dim sum was easy. They show you a basket with dim sum you take it or not. When you are really afraid of what is inside you ask
Picture is worth thousand words in this case...
Dim sum
Inside of the Imperial Palace restaurant
Then the registration for JavaOne started afternoon. The goodies look a little bit worse this time. Maybe it's because everything is eco or green this time. Wooden pen and eco light. Cool.
I went to start up camp and glassfish unconference. It was informal meeting (actually lot of meetings at the same time) about interesting topics.
Then there was Glassfish party at Thirsty Bear. Party madness started They served a special drink - Glassfish raspberry lemonade. The drink shined.
Glassfish raspberry lemonade
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( May 05 2008, 07:34:01 PM CEST )
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Sunday May 04, 2008 |
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[J1] San Francisco - the way, the stay
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My trip to San Francisco started at the Prague airport. I took the flight to Munich with Lufthansa. I knew that I fly with DEHAVILLAND DASH 8 TURBOPROP aircraft however when I saw it I was surprised. And I remembered Roumen's blog entry about the same kind of aircraft (but I cannot find it now). The trip was amazing. The only thing that I missed was the parachute backpack on my back. I'd feel more comfortable. To be honest, we arrived on time. My baggage wasn't lost yet.
Thanks to my new VAIO with extra battery I was able to work on the presentation for JavaOne when I waited at the airports. I can watch movies too
The other flight (Munich - San Francisco) was just boring Airbus A346 JET. I really liked the LCD panel. I could play movies when I wanted. That was improvement to my latest experience (but they didn't offer any games, why Lufthansa, why?).
I arrived to San Francisco downtown in night therefore I was scared if my reservation in Pickwick hotel wasn't canceled because I forgot to let them know about my late arrival. Fortunately, there were no problem therefore I could fall asleep finally in nice bed.
In the Saturday morning I woke up early, jet leg, of course. I took a short walk in around the block. And I took a few pictures of Moscone center and the JavaOne eye-catchers. I'm getting used to the time shift and the inches and foot.
I bought a SIM card to be available for the emergency calls about my lab. It allowed me to get into touch with Martin B. too. He gave me a drive to pizza party in John's house close to Half Moon bay. Last year there was burger party. This year John built up a pizza oven. He cooked delicious homemade pizza. Wow, pizza oven is what I need in my house! Great pizza whenever you want.
Preparing the pizza
Pizza oven can be useful in many ways when it is cold outside
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( May 04 2008, 06:56:38 AM CEST )
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Friday April 25, 2008 |
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Bye, bye, Vista
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My laptop is again Vista free. I survived almost 3 weeks on the new Windows Vista that came with the new Sony Vaio. I haven't used to it. I don't have any particular reason but I haven't felt comfortably with so smart system. Maybe was just my setup. However I was so scared when they(vistas) asked me "Do you REALLY want to run this program?". Yes, yes, and yes. I'm not stupid nor mad. I clicked the executable file or icon by purpose. There were more little things that I didn't like.
I'm back with dual boot - Windows XP and Ubuntu. I'm using XP however I do plan to switch to the latest Ubuntu after JavaOne. It is not worth to have a nightmares before the session...
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( Apr 25 2008, 04:14:37 PM CEST )
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Friday April 18, 2008 |
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LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game
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I impressed. My
LAB-6400 Create Your Own Mobile Game is full already. No empty seats for late-coming attendees. Maybe you can sit on floor if you really want to join.
This will be BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session and if you don't need a table and chair then you are welcome. I'm curios how we will handle it. I'm prepared to lot of questions and problem about the configuration of your laptop. If you will show up at the hands-on lab and you'd like to help us then prepare your machine.
You will need following software installed:
If you don't plan to connect the application to webservice then the NetBeans Mobility 6.0.1 distribution is enough. If you plan to connect the mobile application to server backend then you need the Mobility End to End module that is available either on Update Center or is part of the ALL distribution.
The result of the lab will be a game application with name "Lost Duke". There is a flow diagram of the application bellow.
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( Apr 18 2008, 04:54:03 PM CEST )
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Tuesday April 01, 2008 |
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Support for iPhone in NetBeans Mobility
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It seems that the NetBeans Mobility team wanted to give me a birthday present. I run today's build and I found out that there is support for the iPhone. That's really cool. It works out of the box. Just install the latest NetBeans Mobility build. When you are creating new MIDP Application then choose "iPhone SDK April Edition" as emulator platform.
The game that is running in the emulator is the game that I'm preparing for our JavaOne's hands-on lab session. It's name is "Lost Duke".
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( Apr 01 2008, 04:48:46 PM CEST )
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Finally the right API
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Andrei entered following request for NetBeans IDE - "Introduce API for answer to Life, Universe and Everything". If you know the right answer the you show probably review his patch. It will enhance the openide API with another valuable method.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then you should read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
PS: and maybe you should check the calendar
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( Apr 01 2008, 02:06:06 PM CEST )
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Saturday March 15, 2008 |
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EclipseCon :NetBeans Party - free beer, free IDE, free ride
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If you will be at EclipseCon on Tuesday (March 18) you shouldn't miss the NetBeans party. There will be free beer, free refreshment. You can watch the NetBeans evangelists showing some demos when you'll drink a beer (maybe the Pilsener Urquell?)- I really regret that I'll miss it. Tipsy Roumen and company on the stage...
Look at Roumen's blog for direction to the party or follow the map
So cheers to everybody who will join the party! Lukas.
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( Mar 15 2008, 05:22:53 PM CET )
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Thursday March 06, 2008 |
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NetBeans 6.1 Beta is out
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NetBeans 6.1 Beta (aka Milestone2) build is available for download at the netbeans.org pages
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( Mar 06 2008, 07:43:46 PM CET )
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Tuesday March 04, 2008 |
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Third time at JavaOne
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 They accepted our hands-on lab about Java ME and NetBeans Mobility for the JavaOne 2008. The name of the session is "Create Your Own Mobile Game".
This time it will be focused on games development with Game Builder in NetBeans Mobility 6.0.1.
You are highly welcome to join me and Fabiola Gallegos Rios at the hands-on lab at JavaOne 2008. A time slot for this lab hasn't been defined yet. However I expect that it will be on Friday again. The main reason is that they will have to switch more than 100 of machines from Solaris to Linux. Nobody wants to do it twice. Less work, less failures.
I'm looking forward to meet some people that I've met at previous conferences. It will be my pleasure to meet some new faces too, of course.
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( Mar 04 2008, 10:26:27 AM CET )
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