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NetBeans Podcast Episode #43

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

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #42

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.
  

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #41

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.
  

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #40

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.
  

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #39

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.
  

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #38

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.

 

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NetBeans podcast episode #37

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. :-)

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #36

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.

 

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #35

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. :-)

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #34

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:

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #33

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. :-)

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #32 - Interview With Tor Norbye

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.

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #31

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:

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #30

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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NetBeans Podcast Episode #29

 
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. :-)

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #28

Back home from Java One, seriously jetlagged by ready for the new episode, this time a bit longer than usual thanks to Java One and NetBeans day in San Francisco:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #28 (56 min 22 sec, size: 40.5 MB)

Shownotes:

• 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. :-)

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #27 - Interview with Adam Myatt

Me and Gregg interviewed Adam Myatt of General Electric about his new NetBeans book, his favorite features in NetBeans, future of Java and other interesting topics.

NetBeans Podcast Episode #27 (34 min 19 sec, size: 24.7 MB)

Shownotes:

• 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.

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P.S. The podcast song is about a feeling people get when they switch to NetBeans and it solves their troubles :)

What's this? What's this?
There's something very wrong
What's this?
There's people singing songs

What's this?
The streets are lined with
Little creatures laughing
Everybody seems so happy
Have I possibly gone daffy?
What is this?
What's this?

There's children throwing snowballs
Instead of throwing heads
They're busy building toys
And absolutely no one's dead

There's frost on every window
Oh, I can't believe my eyes
And in my bones I feel the warmth
That's coming from inside

NetBeans Podcast Episode #26

Back from the road to record another episode of NetBeans podcast...

NetBeans Podcast Episode #26 (26 min 38 sec, size: 19.1 MB)

Shownotes:

• 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.

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #25

Regular doze of NetBeans news for Java addicts is here:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #25 (31 min 16 sec, size: 22.5 MB)

Shownotes:

• 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.

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #24 - Interview with Geertjan Wielenga about NetBeans Platform

I interviewed Geertjan Wielenga for the 24th episode of NetBeans podcast. It was both fun and very informative. Enjoy!

NetBeans Podcast Episode #24 (29 min 51 sec, size: 21.5 MB)

Links:

• 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

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #23

Gregg survived the ice storm in Texas and I survived two hurricanes in Europe so we could Skype ourselves today again and record 23rd episode of NetBeans podcast:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #23 (28 min 28 sec, size: 20.5 MB)

Shownotes:

• 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.

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #22 - Seam Framework

Episode #22 is special because it is all about one framework: Seam. I was joined by Brian Leonard to discuss the advantages of using this framework, how does it fit with the rest of Java EE, what kinds of problems it solves, if it's ready for commercial use and so forth.

NetBeans Podcast Episode #22 (27 min 28 sec, size: 19.7 MB)

Links:

• 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 :)

Unfortunately I can't find the picture with ice fountain in Las Vegas...

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #21

NetBeans Podcast episode #21 is out there in the world wild web:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #21 (28 min 27 sec, size: 20.4 MB)

Shownotes:

• 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 HTML and PDF.
• 24:55 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, January 14, 2006 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.

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #20

New episode of NetBeans podcast is available:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #20 (20 min 56 sec, size: 20.1 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 NetBeans IDE 6.0 Milestone 5 is available (choose "Q-Build" for Build Type)! Vincent Brabant has done a Flash demo
• 4:50 Bruno Souza is our new NetBeans community manager
• 7:42 Take a survey on the NetBeans IDE 5.5 Welcome screen
• 8:58 Roman on the road: Greece and Sardinia
• 13:40 Webinar on the NetBeans Visual Web Pack
• 15:03 Module of the podcast: Plethora. Geertjan blogs about it here
• 16:40 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 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, December 17, 2006 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.

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NetBeans Podcast #19 - Interview with Bruno Souza

I have some VERY GOOD news for the NetBeans community. Sun has hired a new community manager to work with NetBeans community and help grow it and make it even more sucessful. I am very excited that the new community manager is a man I don't think I have to introduce - it is noone else than Bruno Souza. Bruno is the chairman of SOUJava which is the probably the largest Java User Group on Earth with more than 18.000 members. Bruno has been evangelizing Java since 1995 and he's the famous guy with a Brazilian flag you might have met at Java One. Bruno accepted earlier this month to join Sun as a community manager.


Bruno will in his new position mainly work with NetBeans community, he will also contribute to the OpenSolaris community. He will also keep working with Java User Groups and in his new position he will have more opportunities to travel and talk to JUG leaders (you can meet both Bruno and me at Javapolis).

I interviewed Bruno in the beginning of November, we had to wait with publishing the interview till he becomes an official Sun employee. The interview was done before the open source java announcement, so some things are different today (e.g. Duke is no longer closed source!).

NetBeans podcast #19 - Interview with Bruno Souza (21.6 MB, 30:03 min)

Links:
- JUGs listing
- Juggy
- Open Source Duke
- Open JDK
- Software wars

Bruno's contact: bruno dot souza at javaman dot com dot br. His Sun e-mail address will work soon ;)

Btw, Bruno has just blogged about his new job at Sun.

NetBeans Podcast Episode #18

Java has been (partially) opensouced and there's a lot of things happening in the NetBeans land, as usual. So me and Gregg skyped and discussed all the news:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #18 (29 min 40 sec, size: 21.3 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 Java is now open source. Build it with NetBeans.
• 4:50 Top rated IDE in LinuxFormat magazine in the UK.
• 6:08 NetBeans Magazine #2
• 8:30 JavaOne call for papers. Get those ideas in now!
• 10:46 NetBeans Dream Team. Get those nominations in now!
• 13:20 Interview with Pavel Buzek on TheServerSide.
• 15:32 Module of the Podcast: Tapestry support
• 18:10 NetBeans World Tour Updates: NetBeans Day Seoul/Sun Tech Days/SDAC and NetBeans Day Prague/Sun Tech Days
• 24:43 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, December 3, 2006 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.

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NetBeans Podcast #17

NetBeans 5.5 is out and the evangelists gathered in Prague to discuss and drink beer. We tried to create our first group podcast - with 5 NetBeans evangelists. Here's the result:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #17 (21 min 53 sec, size: 15.8 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 - NetBeans 5.5 has been released! The major new features are:
  • Java EE 5 support
  • Subversion support
  • Update to the GUI Builder (Project Matisse)
  • Improved NetBeans Platform development support
  And the web site has been redesigned. :-)
• 4:38 - More features: The NetBeans 5.5 Add On "packs"
  • Mobility Pack
  • Profiler
  • Enterprise Pack
  • C/C++ Pack (Beta 3)
  • Visual Web Pack (Technology Preview)
• 13:20 - NetBeans 5.5 in the news
  • eWeek
  • internews.com
  • InfoQ
  • TheServerSide.com
  • Javalobby
  • InfoWorld
  • OS news
• 14:40 - 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 winner of the T-Shirt on the next podcast - so send in an entry! You could win a t-shirt like one of our other NetBeans Puzzler winners, Jeff Haskovec, shown here wearing his prize!
  
  Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, November 12, 2006 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 can't send mail to restricted places.
• 18:06 - Module of the podcast - jMaki

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NetBeans Podcast Episode #16

Happy 8th birthday, NetBeans! Or is it the 10th birthday? Find out in new episode of the NetBeans podcast:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #16 (21 min 30 sec, size: 15.5 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 NetBeans 5.5 RC1 is available! Download it here. NetBeans Enterprise Pack Q-build 060927_5 is available here.
• 2:26 Top Reasons to Use NetBeans, Part 1: Flash demos
• 4:21 Availability of NetBeans in multiple languages.
• 5:21 NetBeans World Tour Update: Two stops in China, next stop Argentina.
• 6:47 Ed Burnette's comparison of NetBeans and Eclipse milestone builds.
• 8:00 NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition featured on the Sun Developer Network channel. Next session of Sang Shin's Java EE Programming (With Passion!) course
• 10:09 NetBeans User Group in Munich
• 12:06 JOnAS support
• 12:56 Module of the Podcast: Facelets Support, Facelets Developer Documentation, module homepage
• 14:34 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! You could win a t-shirt like our first NetBeans Puzzler winner, Adriano LoGreco shown here wearing his prize!
  
  
• 18:25 NetBeans Birthday Celebration

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P.S. The outro music is dedicated to Ed Burnette.

NetBeans Podcast Episode no.15

So when will the new Visual Web Pack be available? You can find out in this episode of NetBeans podcast, among other NetBeans-related news.

NetBeans Podcast Episode no. 15 (20 min 34 sec, size: 14.8 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 Things going on in Germany: Source Talk and NetBeans User Group Munich
• 3:09 The Profiler Guys now have their own blog
• 4:32 NetBeans IDE 6.0 Milestone 3 released.
• 6:48 Article by Michael Yuan about the NetBeans IDE.
• 8:01 Ashwin has done a Net Talk on UML
• 9:00 Gregg's recap of JavaZone
• 10:56 Module of the week - Sandip's modules on nbextras.org
  Two Flash demos are available:
  Type Hierarchy and File Structure Viewer
  Mark Occurrences
• 11:50 NetBeans IDE BlueJ edition is available
• 14:42 Visual Web Pack - update about TP release
• 16:07 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.

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NetBeans Podcast Episode no.14

Another dose of news about NetBeans is here...

NetBeans Podcast Episode no.14 (22 min 34 sec, size: 16.3 MB)

Shownotes:

• 0:00 Roman's report from Turkey: A customer surprised that NetBeans is much faster on today's hardware compared to NetBeans 3.x running on the hardware available at that time
• 1:46 Gregg discusses the new bundle of NetBeans with JBoss
        - JBoss Bundle
• 5:59 Ruth Kusterer prepared an extensive list of NetBeans hacks
        - NetBeans Hacks
• 7:27 The story behind articles about NetBeans in Spanish
        - Articles en Espanol
• 9:53 Sun hired two main JRuby developers
        - Related article on internetnews.com
        - See also Tor's blog entry on the topic
• 11:05 Don't like mailing lists?
        - Use Nabble instead for tracking the NetBeans mailing lists (nbusers, etc.)
• 13:31 Module of the week
        - Ant explorer from yWorks
• 14:52 NetBeans Puzzler
        - Winner for the previous podcast will be announced in a comment on this blog entry.
• 19:17 New NetBeans Platform book in the works
        - Geertjan's first chapter of the new platform book
• 20:05 NetBeans won an award
        - JDJ Editor's Choice award for the NetBeans IDE
• 20:52 Upcoming events for Gregg and Roumen: JavaZone, New Czech Republic Java User Group, NetBeans Day in Argentina

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.

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