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New Code Completion in Latest Q-build

So it has happened and new code completion is in latest Q-build. You can download it from here (choose 4.1 / Q-Build). It was not a painless process, there were some new bugs introduced compared to the old version, but it works and you can try it out. The improvements are definitely worth it.

I have blogged about the improvements before and demoed some of them as well. I'll be showing new code completion with Honza on Sunday during NetBeans Day as well.

There's one change compared to the list of new features, the parameters for new code completion are opened by pressing Alt-P. The Alt-Space shorcut is used by system on many platforms. I find the change of displaying parameters useful, because in old code completion you didn't see parameter types which was a bit annoying.

Bugs to be submitted into Issuezilla against editor module, subcomponent code completion. Note that we've submitted as QE already quite a lot of bugs so it's a good idea to search if the issue you'll find was not reported already.

Today there will be a Java & Developer tools party in Menlo Park so you can look forward for more news from here.

Day Zero - They Say I Look Like Some US Singer

I have arrived to San Francisco today, around midnight of central European time. Although I was quite tired from the flight, I could not resist going out to see the city.

The first real contact with a San Francisco citizen was with a homeless guy. He was shouting on me: "Hey man! I saw you on television! I know you! You are famous!". I told him he was wrong, but he kept saying it. Then I remembered one visit to a club in Prague where I met Americans. They were like "Oh my god you are xxx" where xxx is the name of some famous US singer.

So I told the SF beggar politely that I'm just a normal person, but he didn't want to believe me. He tried to get some money from me, but he had no chance, I had no change. Anyway it was such a welcome to the city that I would perhaps give him some coins if I had.

If you know the name of the singer I look similar to, please write me who that is, I'm very curious.

Here are my first pictures:

Trams on a rope in hills

The bridge next to SF port

These street trams are so nice. It's amazing they are pulled just by a rope. People are holding themselves so that they do not fell out of the tram. And those hills, it's exactly like from all those movies I've seen with cars jumping down the hill.

I went to try US beer to compare it with Czech beer. I've tried it in a pub next to the port and asked the waiter to give me the best US beer they have. He chose a local brand (something with steam). It was not bad, but it was different. Much sweeter than Czech beer, well... Czech beer is Czech beer. They had Pilsen as well, btw.

As a dinner I chose one of the hamburgers to taste typical US food. To my surprise, it was delicious! It was so rich of ingrediences, like bacon, various types of cheese... and together it just tasted so great! Obviously, it was done from really good meat, not like those we have in Prague. So it's 1:1 Czechs vs. US concerning food and drinks.

I was pleasantly surprised by how nice all people were here to me. Whoever I met, independent if it was in the elevator or in the pub or on the street. This is almost a shock change, because in Czech republic people are rather closed and if they have to serve you, they're almost angry they have a customer. Here, people seem to value their work much more, even if it means selling hamburgers.

Well, this is what I've heard from the others, but it's the first time I really experience it. Interesting. I wonder when will I start to get sick of this "everyone being nice to everyone". After all, it is not completely honest, is it?

Day One - Jeff's Menlo Park Party

I've just returned from the party at Menlo Park. It was funny, well, at least the second part, which got a bit wild at the end. Here is another picture to my collection of photos with Sun directors and VPs:


But let's start at the beginning... I don't have a car here in US, so I went by train to Menlo Park. I decided to walk from the train station to Sun campus which was a big mistake. For me as a European walking to the end of the 30.000 people city seems to be quite reasonable, but in US this is a hell of a distance. So I managed to get to Sun after one and a half an of an hour of walking around streets full of cars.

As Rammstein sings: "We are living in America, America ist wunderbar". They were looking at me like if I was crazy - I was almost the only pedestrian next to the incredible amounts of cars in the streets. Sigh, why do all the people need so many cars? Why not to use a bike instead? I know it's comfortable, but on the other hand, sitting the whole time in a car is not the best thing for one's health. Enough of complaining about America.

Here are some photos from the party. Enjoy them. I cannot tell any details, people are already angry on me I'm blogging about everything. So I need to be careful, otherwise they may not invite me to the parties anymore!


I'm going to sleep. More about San Francisco and NetBeans happenings tomorrow.