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Tuesday November 03, 2009 |
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Page Not Found at NetBeans.org
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I wanted to review some issues at netbeans.org web site. But I recieved following message :
Nothing unexpected obviously, the netbeans.org is being migrated. The migration started on Monday, November 2, at 5:00 PM CET/8:00 AM PST. Everything will be back on November 9.
What is going to happen during and after the migration?
- All services (except hg.netbeans.org) will switch to read-only mode or become completely unavailable till 11/9
- Bug tracking system, Mailing lists server, and the Wiki won't be available (or only in RO mode) during the migration
- Accounts
- You'll receive new password for the account in new infrastructure by email
- If you used more accounts with the same email address then only the latest used account will be migrated (more details)
- We will use same password for all services in netbeans.org after migration. It means, you will have just one password for web, mercurial and wiki
- Mailing list changes
- Bug tracking system
- will be changed to bugzilla
- there will be lot of changes in the RESOLUTIONS, STATUSES, KEYWORDS - see complete list
- filling new bug will be easier because the list of projects will be shorter
- table of all new components/subcomponents
- all issues in RESOLVED/LATER were closed as WONTFIX in last days. If you don't agree reopen them after the migration. However most of these issues are low priority bugs that were out of the radar of the development anyway. Test in latest NB6.8 Beta if they are still valid, please.
- More details in the FAQs mentioned in the previous post
What to do after migration
- Login to https://www.netbeans.org/people/login with the password mentioned in the e-mail; then create your new password.
- If you use Mercurial to check out the NetBeans sources, you must also change the password in your local hg netbeans repositories
- Update your email client's filters for mailing lists because some mailing lists will have new names
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( Nov 03 2009, 10:26:37 AM CET )
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Friday October 30, 2009 |
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NetBeans migration
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The netbeans.org site is going to be migrated into kenai.com infrastructure during next week
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( Oct 30 2009, 07:14:00 AM CET )
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Friday October 23, 2009 |
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NetBeans 6.8 Beta is out
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It's time for celebration. The NetBeans team released the Beta of NetBeans 6.8 finally. The plan was to publish it yesterday but sometimes you cannot make it. Reason? Slow upload. Could you imagine how many GB have to be uploaded? This could be great quiz question for Geertjan's NB podcast 
If you are interested what's new in it comparing to the Milestone 2 then there is simple answer. It is more stable and we added the support for Java FX. The list of all features is available at the official page - http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/68/. The team resolved around 1000 bugs - http://quality.netbeans.org/metrics/Bugs-Reported-vs-Resolved-.html
So it's Friday, it's time to celebrate the release. Do you want to see the old NetBeans team? Watch this video.
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( Oct 23 2009, 03:55:11 PM CEST )
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Thursday October 22, 2009 |
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Java ME SDK 3.0 on Mac? EA is here
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Lot of the users were asking when the Java ME SDK will be available at the Mac. The time has come. Now. If you want to try the new release of the Java ME SDK for Mac then the Early Access is available for download.
As it is early access provide your feedback to the guys who developed it at their blog blogs.sun.com/javamesdk.
AFAIK, only the CLDC/MIDP devices are available for the Mac. And two devices with JavaFX support.
Note: the Java ME SDK for Mac won't be in NetBeans 6.8 as its final version won't be ready when the NB will ship.
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( Oct 22 2009, 02:10:22 PM CEST )
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Saturday October 17, 2009 |
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Java FX plugins will be part of NetBeans 6.8 Beta
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NetBeans teams are working on the next release. That's obviously no big surprise. However there was a small change in the release schedule that influenced a lot of the people, including the community. If you are following the release schedule carefully then you might notice the small shift of the release dates. The main reason was the JavaFX support. The support wasn't planned for the NB 6.8 Beta originally. The main reason was that the team working on the support needed more time to stabilize the features for JavaFX SDK 1.2.1 and the new NetBeans APIs. Therefore we wanted to release the FX plugins together with a release candidate.
However it wouldn't be a good message to community that we don't have Java FX support, right? That's why we decided to ship Beta later then expected. So you should have chance to try the Java FX in NB 6.8. It will be in Beta quality and I really don't recommend it for production work. Anyway, it is better then the 6.7! Some features will be disabled as the decision to release it in Beta came in last minute and there isn't enough time to stabilize them more (more in some next post).
What are the pros / cons of the postponed Beta release?
- +More bugs will be fixed. It should mean more stable release.
- +Java FX will be part of the Beta.
- -Community received M2 instead of Beta.
- +but the M2 i in Beta quality already
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( Oct 17 2009, 10:00:00 AM CEST )
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Friday June 19, 2009 |
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NetBeans Platform Hands-on Lab at JavaOne 2009
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Hands on labs are always great at JavaOne. You aren't just listening to a presentation but you can try a technology on real machine. And there is plenty of people ready to help you with an advice when you got lost. You can imagine the session as a tutorial that you are doing with help of friend. We set up everything for you - documentation, environment,room, speakers and the proctors that wil help. You just sit down to a computer and get your hands dirty with the code
This year Jiri Rechtacek and me prepared HOL about NetBeans Platform.
The HOL provides you a short overview of the most important NetBeans APIs. The scenario of the tutorial is pretty simple - transform an existing Swing application to application based on NetBeans Platform. At the end you'll find out that the application looks the same but it's much more easier to create it because you can just focus on the business logic. The other things that you usually have to bother with desktop application as windows management, modules management etc. have been solved by the NetBeans Platform.
The HOL will be available on the official JavaOne online pages soon. For those who would like to try it immediately you can download the ZIP that we provided to NetBeans Dream Team. Enjoy it!
I'd like to thank to the NetBeans Dream Team members that joined the HOL. These guys really helped to increase the HOL quality with their experience with the NetBeans Platform. Who could be better proctor than somebody who use the product in daily work and makes money from it. Great thanks go to Toni Epple, Sven Reimers , Florian Vogler, Wade Chandler and Rich Unger. Thank you, guys!
Geertjan and Tone had a similar technical session TS-3886 Porting an Application to the NetBeans Platform where they explained more reasons the NetBeans Platform and how it helps developers.
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( Jun 19 2009, 04:01:29 PM CEST )
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Wednesday May 27, 2009 |
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C U @ J1 2009
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I arrived to Bay Area today afternoon to get rid off the jetleg before JavaOne. I'm really looking forward to the next week. I hope that it will be week for of great presentations, meetings and other technical entertainment. I'll speak (or at least appear) at following presentations:
I'd like to attend a few more sessions about interesting news of today. The best place to meet people are parties. Everybody is relaxing after the looong day. And you can chat about anything (be aware that some parties are at noisy places).
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( May 27 2009, 06:13:58 AM CEST )
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Sunday May 24, 2009 |
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jOpenSpace 2009
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OpenSpace is new format of conference or we should can it rather un-conference.
Last year I attended the first jOpenSpace conference organised by Srakyi and guys from Inmite. It was awesome experience. Last weekend I attended second year. The event happened in the same cottage "Jizerka" as the last year. It was weekend full of information about Java and technologies. There was also lot of fun etc.
Last year everybody took it too much seriously (it means we spent the whole weekend in room with beamer and talked about java) so I was little bit afraid that it could be the exact opposite way this year. I was really surprised. It seemed to me that organisers managed to find the right balance between the sessions and other relaxing activities. Breath taking was the set of lighting talks that followed the format "7 minutes is enough". Sometimes it was hard to explain the whole problem/solution/topic in 7 minutes. And because we had 2 rooms we split into two separated groups during the open space talks. Because we managed to keep all the talks in 7 minutes there was space for almost everybody to show something interesting about Java, programming or IT.
We relaxed in late evenings with beers however most of the discussions were about Java again. The most successful hands on lab from last year had to be repeated. IMO, everybody would agree that the "hands on wine" deserves to be repeated every year. And believe or not the location for next event should be a wine cellar (as the rumor sayz).
Jizerske mountains are nice place even if you got lost and have to cross Jizera river by foot. Fortunately, the river is born close to place were we took a "shortcut" and we were able to jump over it.
I definitely enjoyed the whole jOpenSpace again. I will not list the lighting talks and the openspace discussions here as you can find them on the conference pages - jOpenSpace.cz. The records from sessions will be published soon including audio and even video records!
My favourite talks and discussions were "Hands on wine", "Cloud Computing - next SOA?", "OpenSolaris - ssytem for operators", "What problems you should solve as first", "Scrum accessories", "PIM & google map" and definitely some others that I don't remember now
I'm looking forward for next year. I will pray to java gods to invite me again as the un-conference is per invitation only. OTOH, there was a short call for papers. Watch the java.cz around April next year. Maybe there will be again some call for papers and you will be able to attend third year of jOpenSpace. Or I have even better idea - organise another un-conference by yourself
Links:
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( May 24 2009, 10:54:12 PM CEST )
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Wednesday May 06, 2009 |
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Trip to JavaOne canceled
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Yesterday, they canceled my trip to JavaOne. I'm really angry. That should be the best JavaOne ever. 3 proposals accepted. I spent some nights preparing the Hands-on lab materials. I feel that the Cloud will kill me. Or at least it is making everything cloudy.
If you are going to J1 then say hello to Golden Gate for me. And enjoy the conference, of course. There is plenty of nice sessions, don't forget to visit some of the parties (Jboss, Glassfish, etc.), and there will be CommunityOne day on Monday again.
Looot of good stuff that I'll miss.
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( May 06 2009, 04:44:39 PM CEST )
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Friday March 06, 2009 |
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Saying bye to NetBeans...
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After 8 years with NetBeans IDE it's time for a change. I accepted offer to join a new group that will work closely with the Q-layer company that SUN has bought recently. It's a new challenge, a new opportunity to learn new things and also chance to be part of team that builds up a new product. It was wonderful time with the guys/gals that are beyond the NetBeans IDE. I'll stay in touch as I really like the NetBeans - ok, ok, not the whole NetBeans IDE. My favorite parts are Mobility and Platform.
I won't have time to write blogs about the new in NetBeans platform as I did together with the NB Platform QE team at blogs.sun.com/coreqa. As I said I plan to stay in the huge crowd of NetBeans fans so I may blog about some news time to time. However it will be probably harder and harder because I've just moved to another office where I won't have daily chats with the guys working on NetBeans IDE. On the other hand I promised to Geertjan to work on the NBPodcast with him. Lot of changes happened here in last month(s).
-So long, and thanks for all the beans-
Before you'll ask what I'll do now... Right now I have head in Clouds. I'm looking at new SUN's cloud solution (whatever it means).
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( Mar 06 2009, 06:43:54 PM CET )
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