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NetBeans podcast is back:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #43 (45 min, size: 46.5 MB)

• 0:00 Why has it been so long since the last podcast?!? And an introduction of Geertjan and Lloyd
• 4:22 NetBeans IDE 6.1 was released! The multilanguage bits are available, as is the first set of patches.
• 15:50 NetBeans Day and JavaOne round-up: new and cool stuff, including the Pulse pen from Livescribe and the new browser plugin that is part of Java 6 update 10.
• 22:14 NetBeans IDE is now in the Ubuntu Universe
• 23:37 Enhancements to the NetBeans Plugin portal are now live
• 28:00 Upcoming events: Sun Tech Days Manila/NetBeans Deep Dive and NetBeans Day at Jazoon
• 30:00 NetBeans Innovator Grants project list
• 37:20 NetBeans Governance board elections - vote by June 9, 2008
• 38:09 Plugin of the podcast: JIRA plugin
• 38:53 RCP of the podcast: Prolog IDE
• 42:01 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to nbpodcast at netbeans dot org. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Geertjan will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember, the questions might be getting harder, but the prizes are getting better. So send in an entry! You might win a prize like Roger Westerlund, shown below with his copy of Rich Client Programming.
• 46:53 Varun Nischal and Angad Singh are now working on improved XML Schema support

More contests, more features, more conferences... It's time for:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #42 (34 min 50 sec, size: 33.5 MB)

• 0:00 The NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta is available! And there is a Blogging Contest. Everyone blog, blog, blog!!! :-) There have already been several blogs written that talk about the enhancements in 6.1.
• 3:03 NetBeans Day at CommunityOne. It's free - register here. Lots of fun, like in the past, and just like last year, featuring a live podcast recording by the JavaPosse.
• 5:27 The very latest on Groovy support in NetBeans, this time from Matthias Schmidt.
• 7:15 Another set of patches released on March 20 for NetBeans 6.0 and 6.0.1 .
• 12:06 New shared libraries feature in NetBeans 6.1. Blog entries on the topic from Allan Lykke Christensen and Adam Myatt.
• 14:28 Using NetBeans for HTML editing. Includes a mention of the Favorites window.
• 18:07 Conference reports: EclipseCon, Euroko, and SD West. With a divergence into how Ruby users feel about Java. :-)
• 28:39 Module of the podcast: Remove those unnecessary bindings!
• 30:18 NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember, the questions might be getting harder, but the prizes are getting better. So send in entry! You might win a prize like Andrea Matsunaga, shown here with her NetBeans USB drive.
  

JavaScript productivity tools are here! Learn about them in:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #41 (29 min 58 sec, size: 28.8 MB)

• 0:00 Traveling in India....
• 1:55 New JavaScript support
• 4:06 Check out the patches that are available. One of them includes the fix for the Eclipse key bindings.
• 7:09 Several new NetBeans related books now available::
  • Pro Netbeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition by Adam Myatt
  • NetBeans 6 - Rich-Client-Entwicklung mit Java by Heiko Böck. Adam Bien writes about it here.
  • Java na Web com JSF, Spring, Hibernate e Netbeans 6 by Yuri Marx P. Gomes
  • Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6 by Frank Jennings and David Salter. Geertjan interviews Frank here.
• 10:30 An interview with Martin Adamek about the latest on Groovy / Grails support in NetBeans.
• 12:02 Another TextMate style color theme for NetBeans.
• 16:52 MySQL screencast now available
• 18:25 Do you use ClearCase? Help us test the new NetBeans support for ClearCase! Information about (limited) support for additional version control systems is here.
• 23:51 Module of the podcast: Code Coverage.
• 25:03 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember, the questions might be getting harder, but the prizes are getting better. So send in entry! You might win a prize like Tom Orton, shown here with his NetBeans USB drive.
  

NetBeans podcast this time with a celebrity appearance of Judith Lilienfeld, director of tools evangelism at Sun:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #40 (28 min 25 sec, size: 27.2 MB)

• 0:00 NetBeans Innovators Grant Program!
• 5:54 Check out the NetBeans Community Documentation program, coordinated by James Branham and Amit Kumar Saha. Recent milestone: over 100 contributions. Also, check out an interesting idea from Amit and Varun Nischal.
• 8:52 NetBeans 6.1 Milestone 1 now available. Schedule for 6.1 milestones/betas is here.
• 11:52 A new Webinar that demonstrates the JasperSoft iReport plugin.
• 14:30 Recap of NetBeans event in Second Life. Transcript here.
• 16:45 Investigating: Better JavaScript support.
• 19:24 Guest appearance: Judith Lilienfeld, Director of Java Tools Evangelism at Sun Microsystems. In addition to the NetBeans Innovators Grant program, there will be a blogging contest. Stay tuned - details will be announced soon.
• 20:19 NetBeans RCP application of the podcast: CitraFX.
• 21:00 Plugin of the podcast: Assembly Language support.
• 21:40 The NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember, the questions might be getting harder, but the prizes are getting better. So send in entry! You might win a prize like Georg Schmid, shown here with his NetBeans USB drive.
  

Lots of things are happening in NetBeans land, to get your overview tune in to the latest episode of NetBeans podcast:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #39 (27 min 44 sec, size: 31.5 MB)

• 0:00 Sun to aquire MySQL AB.
• 3:08 NetBeans IDE wins three product of the year awards from Developper.com.
• 4:26 Upcoming support for the Spring framework and some discussion of Java EE 5 and Java EE 6.
• 8:25 Also, NetBeans 6.1 Milestone 1 preview: background plugin downloading, SIP support, and WebSphere support, etc.
• 9:59 Upcoming PHP support
• 10:36 Are the 6.1 daily builds stable enough to use yet?
• 12:20 Javadoc code completion - check out the blog entry from Geertjan
• 13:48 Upcoming changes in the visual web development features
• 14:30 JasperSoft iReport Webinar on January 23. Will include a demo of their new NetBeans plugin. Register here.
• 16:04 Using NetBeans developer collaboration behind a firewall
• 17:26 More and more Ruby developers discovering the NetBeans IDE. Tor recently put together a new list:
  • Balancing On Rails
  • Derek Perez
  • Jerry Jackson
  • Chris Bartling
  • Tobin Harris (and again)
  • Simplificator
  • Chris A. Guiney
• 19:11 Plug-in of the podcast: Beanmill Logging Viewer
• 20:07 NetBeans RCP application of the podcast: OpenCoeli
• 21:23 The NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember, the questions might be getting harder, but the prizes are getting better. So send in entry! You might win a prize like Russ McDermott, shown here with his copy of Rich Client Programming.
  

NetBeans 6.0 has been released... but we already know what are the plans for 6.1! Tune in to the latest episode of NetBeans podcast:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #38 (36 min 15 sec, size: 34.8 MB)

• 0:00 NetBeans 6.0 has been shipped! Check out some interesting reviews/blogs:
  • Ed Burnette
  • Nick Plante
  • Weiqi Gao
• 2:03 JasperSoft announces support for NetBeans. A beta release of their iReport plugin is available. Watch screencast videos of it here.
• 4:17 The first patch for NetBeans 6.0 is available. Find out more.
• 6:15 Plans are being made for NetBeans 6.1
• 9:00 Looking out to the future:
  • Fitness Program
  • Feature on Demand
• 10:51 Screencasts - lots of them. Roumen has his latest on Javalobby. Gregg and Tor have some out on the new 6.0 video tour page. View more 6.0 screencasts here.
• 14:58 Road trip reports: Austin, Houston, Berlin, Dubai, Cairo, Bulgaria, and Frankfurt.
• 22:51 NetBeans Magazine issue #4 is now available (also available as a .pdf file). Several good articles, as usual.
• 24:17 Groovy and Grails support is being added. Read more in a blog entry from Martin Adamek. There is also a wiki page.
• 26:24 NetBeans experts chat session transcript has been posted.
• 28:03 The module of the podcast is Add Property
• 29:21 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. Recent winner Ryan de Laplante sent in a photo of himself with his prize, a copy of the fantastic book: Rich Client Programming.

Ever wondered what is the NetCAT community doing? Tune in to the latest episode of NetBeans podcast with an interview with Jiri Kovalsky, NetBeans technical community manager:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #37 (28 min 37 sec, size: 27.5 MB)

• 0:00 Ahoj!
• 1:00 Corrections to podcast #36....
• 2:03 Jiri's introduction and a description of NetCat
• 3:46 What is a Technical Community Manager?
• 4:57 What are the most important changes that have occurred for NetBeans contributors?
• 7:38 How are NetCat participants chosen?
• 9:49 How many NetCat 6.0 participants are there?
• 10:16 How many NetCat participants were there for past releases?
• 11:07 What do NetCat participants actually do and what do they get out of it? Do the bugs they report get special treatment?
• 14:46 Has NetCat changed over the years?
• 16:45 What is the NetCat survey? (Check out the preview)
• 17:39 What has been the most important feedback we have gotten from NetCat 6.0?
• 20:21 How does the quality look for NetBeans IDE 6.0?
• 22:03 Future plans for NetCat?
• 23:47 Participate! :-)
• 24:26 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. Recent winner Hayden Jones sent in a photo of his son Wesley holding his prize: a 1GB NetBeans USB drive. :-)

Tune in to:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #36 (25 min 57 sec, size: 15.6 MB)

• 0:00 Roumen has been on the road: Italy and Greece and is heading to India soon. Gregg has been to the midwestern US and will return to Minneapolis and Chicago next week. And then, on to Houston!
• 5:18 NetBeans Governance Board announcement
• 8:26 Mobility tools game designer
• 10:28 jMaki 1.0 announcement. Arun Gupta has some screencasts of jMaki in action.
• 13:10 New screencast of the Ruby debugger
• 15:44 Profile of Fabrizio Guidici of the NetBeans Dream Team
• 17:35 Module of the podcast: JAX-RS (JSR 311) support
• 21:40 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-) Below is recent winner Maarten Th. Mulders with his prize: a NetBeans USB drive.

NetBeans 6 beta1 is out and we have it covered in the last episode of NetBeans podcast:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #35 (30 min 37 sec, size: 18.3 MB)

• 0:00 The Beta of NetBeans version 6.0 has landed! Download it here. New and noteworthy features.
• 6:45 Conference report round-up: Lone Star Ruby Conference and JavaZone
• 14:45 NetBeans wins a Bossie award! See the list of all awards.
• 16:25 Contest announcement for netbeans.tv
• 18:26 Some interesting videos: Ruby demo by Tor Norbye an interview with Rich Unger, JNI/C++ demo by Roumen and an interview with Janice
• 20:15 An interesting article: Support for unit testing Ruby code
• 21:45 Module of the podcast: Make Writable
• 22:53 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, October 1, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-)

Here we go again:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #34 (32 min 40 sec, size: 19.6 MB)

• 0:00 Recap of Roman's trip to Denmark
• 4:05 NetCAT call for participation
• 6:30 Bloggers talking about how the NetBeans IDE has improved their productivity for developing Java web applications and for Rails applications
• 9:06 Code for Freedom contest for students in India
• 11:36 NetBeans TV has launched!
• 14:01 Profile of a NetBeans Dream Team member: Wade Chandler
• 16:08 NetBeans Visual Web Pack ideas
• 17:59 Tutorial on using SQE
• 20:08 GlassFish is the fastest open source application server.
• 22:45 Reasons for using the NetBeans Mobility Pack
• 23:32 New article on current books about NetBeans
• 24:20 Module of the podcast: Perspectives
• 28:27 The NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-) Check out this photo of winner Daniel Rhoden and his son Aidan holding up a new NetBeans USB drive:

Tune in for the latest doze of NetBeans-related news:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #33 (29 min 06 sec, size: 17.5 MB)

• 0:00 Roman and Gregg chatting about their summer activities, passports, and visas. :-)
• 3:05 The latest nightly builds and status of the 6.0 beta release.
• 6:22 Some interesting extensions of the NetBeans platform: Instant JChem and Boeing. Also, Geertjan has a blog entry with more details on Instant JChem.
• 9:12 Excitement in the community about NetBeans Ruby support. A recent episode of the DrunkAndRetired podcast includes a review.
• 11:13 After you listen to our interview with Tor, check out this written interview that Geertjan did with him.
• 12:08 A podcast about Jarvis.
• 13:58 Some very well written tutorials that were published recently: Installing the FindBugs plugin, building the JRuby source with the NetBeans IDE, and building the JEdit source with the NetBeans IDE. The second two include excellent information on setting up freeform projects in the NetBeans IDE.
• 19:54 A nasty bug in the JDK affects NetBeans performance on Windows. Adam Bien has a blog entry on the topic.
• 22:18 Modules of the Podcast: Open Laszlo support and Echo2 support
• 23:45 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-)

We interviewed Tor Norbye about his work on the Ruby support in NetBeans:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #32 (38 min 46 sec, size: 23.3 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 Introduction and Tor's podcasting, he's also a podcaster at the Javaposse
• 2:30 What Tor has worked on at Sun: Java Studio Creator, Project Semplice, and the Ruby tools
• 5:00 Overview of Ruby features in the NetBeans IDE
• 7:25 Debugging Ruby
• 9:50 Rails support
• 10:51 Switching between Ruby implementations
• 11:49 Implementation of the type inference and code completion logic
• 17:10 Implementation of refactoring features
• 18:54 Features Tor wants to implement next
• 21:33 Community feedback
• 23:17 Why should Java developers look at Ruby?
• 26:38 Other Ruby development tools
• 29:49 A version of NetBeans IDE that just has Ruby support? Check out this page on deadlock
• 32:16 Opportunities for contributors and cool features; check out the wiki page.
• 34:55 Support for other dynamic languages. Erlang IDE based on Tor's code.

Last milestone of NetBeans 6.0 has been released so tune in to find out what's new and exciting about it:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #31 (30 min 30 sec, size: 18.3 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 NetBeans IDE Milestone 10 has been released! Check out the list of new features.
• 16:21 NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 now available in Spanish and German
• 17:35 Roman's report from the Cologne JUG shootout
• 20:58 A chapter of the new NetBeans platform book has been posted
• 24:03 New Flash demo available: extending OpenOffice with NetBeans
• 24:49 Module of the podcast: Code coverage
• 25:23 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-) Check out this photo of winner Mario Perez Madueno holding his new t-shirt while wearing an older t-shirt:

Episode #30 of NetBeans podcast is here:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #30 (25 min 44 sec, size: 15.4 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 Macrovision tutorial on using the NetBeans GUI Builder.
• 2:10 NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition has been updated
• 6:16 Comprehensive GlassFish document
• 11:15 Upcoming Events: NetBeans Day Zurich (register here) and Jazoon
• 14:52 Module of the Podcast: OpenOffice plugin for NetBeans
• 17:08 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-) Check out this photo of recent winner Bob Tai with his prize: 
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Are you wondering what's new in NetBeans 5.5.1? Whether it is better to use Glassfish v1 or v2? Or what's new in the NetBeans world in general? Listen to the 29th episode of NetBeans podcast:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #29 (29 min 57 sec, size: 21.6 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 Roumen's web log entry concerning the bet between David Berlind and Tim Bray.
• 3:30 NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 has been released! Download it here.
• 8:43 NetBeans Magazine issue #3. For additional information, check out this interview with the editor, Leonardo Galvão.
• 13:58 Tips from Alexis for demoing GlassFish
• 18:40 NetBeans projects have been added to the OpenJDK sources; there is a tutorial available.
• 21:09 Module of the Podcast: Geertjan's in-progress Groovy support
• 23:08 NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-)

• 0:00 NetBeans 6.0 Preview (Milestone 9) is now available. Check out the list of new features. Watch Schwartz and Green at NB day.
• 14:40 NetBeans Day San Francisco: read the article, Gregg's blog entry, and Roumen's blog entry. See dog training with NetBeans.
• 29:40 Some of the things we saw or heard at Java One:
  • JavaFX Script
  • Consumer JRE
  • NASA World Wind
• 49:08 Module of the podcast: GWT4NB. They also have a flash demo.
• 50:25 NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the winner of the T-Shirt on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember: the Puzzler questions are getting harder - but the prizes are getting better. :-)

• 0:00 Interview with Adam Myatt. Some links of interest:
  • Adam's new book: Pro NetBeans IDE 5.5 Enterprise Edition
  • Adam's book on amazon.com
  • Adam's web site: http://www.ProNetBeans.com/
  • An interview that Geertjan did with Adam.
  • A review Gregg wrote of Adam's book.
  • Meet Adam at NetBeans Day 2007.
  • NetBeans IDE support for Struts 2.
• 29:00 NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the winner of the T-Shirt on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places.

• 0:00 Why no podcasts recently? We have been on the road....
• 2:47 NetBeans 6.0, Milestone 8 - see the list of features
• 10:30 NetBeans IDE and Enterprise Pack 5.5.1 Beta releases are available. Provides compatiblity with the latest from GlassFish and Open ESB.
• 15:28 The NetBeans IDE won a Jolt Award! Information on additional awards here. Product reviews are here.
• 16:51 Sun Web Developer Pack has been released. Some interesting comments from the Ajaxian web site.
• 20:12 Module of the Podcast: DWR support from Chuk Munn Lee.
• 21:33 NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the winner of the T-Shirt on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places.

• 0:00 NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 7 has been released! Check out the new features. One new feature is automatic reporting of exceptions - check out how they respond to those over at Microsoft. :-)
• 8:31 New install program in the works for NetBeans 6.0. Feedback can be sent to users@nbi.netbeans.org.
• 12:30 JRuby support now available. Also, check out Project Schliemann.
• 18:17 NetBeans UML support Beta 3 is now available from the Beta Update Center. Also, please fill out the UML team's survey.
• 21:17 Create a video about your Java ME application and maybe win a prize.
• 22:27 Interested in the NetBeans Enterprise Pack? We are looking for NetCat participants for the upcoming 5.5.1 Enterprise Pack release. More information on what is coming in the 5.5.1 release here.
• 24:37 Module of the Podcast: vi support.
• 27:09 Plugin Portal. Stay tuned for more news soon.
• 27:41 NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the winner of the T-Shirt on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places.

• NetBeans platform homepage
• Geertjan's blog
• Geertjan's update center
• NetBeans platform tutorials
• NetBeans developer FAQ
• NetBeans visual library
• JasperReports visual designer plug-in for NetBeans
• Table of contents of the upcoming NetBeans platform book
• NetBeans platform mailing list

• 0:00 Roman met the developers of Project Plethora.
• 1:33 Lots of stuff going on in the CDC world:
  1. NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC 5.5 has been released.
  2. NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC 5.5 Flash demo.
  3. Survey of CDC developers - please let us know what you think.
• 7:04 The NetBeans Dream Team has launched!
• 11:04 NetBeans 6, Milestone 6 has been released.
• 16:53 Our BlueJ friends were having a bit of a problem with Microsoft....
• 21:25 Jason Bell has created a tag library for the Prototype JavaScript library. There is a Flash demo that uses the NetBeans IDE to show it in action.
• 22:27 Module of the podcast: Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT)
• 24:10 The NetBeans Puzzler. If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to gregg dot sporar at sun dot com. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the winner of the T-Shirt on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Gregg will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places.

• Why Gregg couldn't join us this time...
• Seam homepage
• Brian Leonard's blog
• Running Seam on Glassfish
• Trying out JBoss seam
• Trying out JBoss seam (continued)
• Getting started with Seam
• Web Beans JSR (299)
• Article about Seam on onjava.com
• The other Seam :)

• 0:00 Java SE 6 was released, with several key features; more details on the desktop features here. For monitoring and profiling information, take a look at this blog entry from Mandy Chung. There's also this interesting article on JVMTI.
• 6:57 Final release of NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 and NetBeans C/C++ Pack 5.5. Check out this blog entry from Roumen on when to use Visual Web Pack and also this blog entry from Winston Prakash on some of the history behind Visual Web Pack.
• 9:00 Project jMaki Beta2 now available. The jMaki widget page is here.
• 12:12 Two more awards: Most Innovative Java IDE Platform/General Java Framework from Steve Anglin at O'Reilly and a Technology of the Year Award from InfoWorld.
• 13:53 Mobility Pack for CDC 5.5 Release Candidate 1
• 16:25 Craig McClanahan's webinar on the NetBeans Visual Web Pack.
• 20:19 Module of the Podcast: The portlet container plugin and a tutorial about it.
• 22:17 Facelets, Seam, NetBeans, and GlassFish: A document on IDE configuration and Basic Development How-To. Available in both