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Thursday July 03, 2008 |
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NetCAT 6.5 - invitation to the program
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This message shouldn't be missed by those that would like to influence the NetBeans 6.5 release quality. It was sent to nbusers mailing list
Hello folks,
NetBeans IDE 6.5 is approaching its stabilization phase and we are glad to extend to you an opportunity to participate in our 2 months NetBeans 6.5 Community Acceptance Testing (NetCAT) program [1].
With NetBeans 6.5, we have incorporated many features requested by the community. Just to listen the biggest and most noticeable ones:
* Scripting languages support (PHP, Ruby, Groovy, JavaScript)
* Enhanced DB tooling and improved integration with MySQL
* Background compilation, new Generic Language Framework APIs
* Support for custom project structures
* New UML drawing area control
* and much more...
Now we need your help. If you have an experience with NetBeans and want to contribute some time and effort, go for it and register [2] now! We are looking for 60 dedicated users willing to help NetBeans 6.5 become the best IDE. Applications are being accepted until next Monday - July 7, 2008.
Each participant committed to providing timely feedback during this program will be given a chance to significantly influence the quality of the NetBeans 6.5 release. Besides, there are some gifts prepared for all helpful members.
Ready to contribute? We look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
Jiri Kovalsky
NetCAT 6.5 coordinator
[1] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/index.html
[2] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/application.html
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( Jul 03 2008, 01:45:11 PM CEST )
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Friday June 27, 2008 |
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[Jazoon] Why I missed it
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The Jazoon conference ends today. I regret that I couldn't be there. They accepted my proposal for lab session by I had to cancel it. I was really looking forward to give the talk again at Jazoon. And I wanted to see how they improved the conference from last year when it appeared for first time. I was looking forward to meet Carol Hamer who agreed to be proctor in the lab (I stole some code from her book "Creating Mobile Games: Using Java ME Platform to Put the Fun into Your Mobile Device and Cell Phone" for the lab  Actually, she approved me the usage of the code then it means I didn't steal it, right?)
But I cannot attend. No money, no fun. It seems that the Jazoon conference occupies really bad date. It is end of fiscal year. Vacations and summer are starting. And the next year it will be even worse when the Javaone conference will move to June.
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( Jun 27 2008, 10:26:57 AM CEST )
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Thursday June 26, 2008 |
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Changing teams - bye, bye, Mobility
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I used to be the quality assurance engineer and later team lead of the QA for last 5 years. I like the product - NetBeans Mobility. I liked the team that was working on it. Unfortunately, I had to leave the team two weeks ago. No, I haven't left SUN. I just moved to the Core&Platform QA. When I started to lead both QA teams half a year ago it seemed doable. But later on we discovered that there is not enough resources in the QA team in Prague to cover all the functionality we had been responsible for. We had to pass something to different teams in different SUN's offices. Bye, bye, Mobility, my very loved child. I hope that the new team in St. Petersburg will keep the quality on the same level. Actually, they have to I'm still watching the project. (I didn't mean it offensive...) Good luck to Ivan and Andrei.
What this change means for me? I'll have more time to focus on only one thing. For now it will be the NetBeans Platform and the Core NetBeans functionality.
What it means for you? I won't blog about Mobility much in future, probably. I'll blog about more about NetBeans Platform and IDE.
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( Jun 26 2008, 01:16:51 PM CEST )
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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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