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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 June 17, 2009 |
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My notes for Ubuntu 9.04 64b
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My hard drive crashed therefore I received a new one. It means reinstall the Ubuntu 9.04 again. This post shgould be gathering of the steps necessary for me to start work again.
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( Jun 17 2009, 12:49:50 PM CEST )
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Wednesday June 03, 2009 |
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[JavaOne 2009] Cloud/JUG leaders/JavaFx/Solaris party
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Monday. San Francisco. United States
After the busy long CommunityOne day there was an official "OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud" party in the Moscone. I didn't attend as there was a sitdown dinner "Pre-JavaOne JUG Social Event" with JUG leaders at Henry's Hunan Restaurant. Wow, we had so delicious food that Doris ordered for us. Full table of different dishes. And the restaurant was full of JUG leaders, NetBeans Dream team members etc.
We stopped in the Thirsty Bear to say hello to our friends from Java FX. It seems that there is a party in this small brewery every night. Even if there isn't party they have their own set of beers. As this party ended at 10 PM and somebody told us that there is another one in ROE bar next door we wanted to move there. There was OpenSolaris party in ROE but they didn't let us in because we were not on the list. RSVP next time  .
All the JUG leaders, NetBeans dream team continued to the well-know Irish pub Chieftain on 5th and Howard. Aaron Houston was buying pitchers for the folks. The NetBeans' DreamTeam guys agreed to come to the NetBeans Platform HOL and proctor it. Thanks guys.
That was a long nite. I've met some of the guys from NB DreamTeam that I knew from emails. But now I know even the faces! Wade Chandler, Sven Reimers, Toni Epple. And bunch of other folks that were hidden somewhere for a while - as Tim Boudreau And Brazilians and Dutchs are here
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( Jun 03 2009, 06:50:29 PM CEST )
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Tuesday June 02, 2009 |
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[CommunityOne2009] Our session - Test Your Product on Multiple Machines in Parallel with Hudson
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Me and Tomas Musil had a session at ComunityOne today. We named it "Test Your Product on Multiple Machines in Parallel with Hudson". The session went well however we finished a little bit earlier than we expected. On the other hand it gave us more time for questions and answers. And there were lot of questions.
This is my famous slide from the presentation. We forgot to ask James Gosling for a permission to use his "South Park"-like avatar however we hope that we'll forgive us. We met him today when he was taking a picture with his "comic's twin" on the wall. Bu t we were in rush because of our session starting in a few minutes (and nervous to talk to "father of java", of course )
I'll let you know when the presentation slides and the record of the speech will be available.
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( Jun 02 2009, 10:36:38 AM CEST )
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Monday June 01, 2009 |
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[Javaone 2009] Glassfish party after Unconference
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Sunday. San Francisco. United States
I decided that I won't blog about the sessions that I attended as everybody does. I'll blog about the parties. Let me explain why. The sessions, BOFs, HOLs are full of the technical information and news about bleeding edge technologies however you as the attendee are usually in passive role. You just listen to somebody talking. (And sometimes it's really boring). But at parties you are meeting the people. The people that are behind and around the technologies, people that develop it and use it. And you met them at a party when they are more relaxed. You can discuss whatever you want with them - either work topic or a generic one as weather. That's why I like these parties. And, of course, free beer, free food
After the GlassFish 2009 unconference there was a party in Thirst Bear. At the beginning it looked as gathering of old friends. So many well-known faces. And it happens often at JavaOne parties that you are meeting the people that you knew from previous J1s. Me and Tomas finally met Craig McClanahan who is one of the author of the REST API for Sun Cloud.
I really enjoyed the party with Glassfish folks. I wanted to ask Koshuke about his talk about Hudson and Cloud. However he was faster and asked me about the our session "Test Your Product on Multiple Machines in Parallel with Hudson". He was really interested in it. And then he convinced us that it would be worth to opensource it even if it's useful for testing of NetBeans IDE for now.
Are there any pictures from this party? I don't have a camera 
Do you know where to go for "after party"? - Chieftain Irish Pub at Howard and 5th.
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( Jun 01 2009, 11:40:26 PM CEST )
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