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Day Four - The NetBeans Day

The NetBeans day is over now. It was so different from last year. We had problems to place all the people into the place, actually during my session people were standing at the back because there were no seats left. Having too many people interested in NetBeans is a nice problems to have (well, not for those who are organizing the event). Thanks to all who came to see us and I hope that you've enjoyed the show.

Rick Ross' speech was very good, this guy is an excellent speaker. He was so enthusiastic about NetBeans that it almost looked like if we've paid him for the talk (I believe we did not). Jonathan Schwartz was good as well, this guy has a bit different kind of issues than we mortals do, but anyway I think his speech fitted to the rest of the session.

I came to the stage a while after Jonathan, well, I have to admit these two guys placed the bar very high. Anyway, my impression was that the audience was happy to see the features - no visionary talks, just the features they are coping with everyday. Our goal was to show hidden and less known features so we hope with Honza this was useful for the audience. During the second part we spoke about features of NetBeans 4.2 - there was an applause after showing Mattisse. I apologize for not being able to answer all the questions, but as I said, come to Java One and meet the developers working on Mattisse, they will answer all of these questions.

I know I had some small issues with the speech, I have to admit this is the first time I was doing a speech in front of such a huge audience. I'm interested in any kind of feedback so that I can do better next time. Some of the Americans said I was "awesome" but you know, they are Americans so they probably are exeggerating. But we got with Honza also quite some positive feedback from Czech people, which means it was probably really not so bad. Yes, I know there's room for improvement and I promis to work on myself.

I'll blog more about the NetBeans day tommorrow, I'm half dead at the moment. You guessed it, we went to celebrate the event. It was a big success, there's no doubt about it. Even the most pesimistic people said so.

One photo for this day (more will come tomorrow) - this is the Looking glass guy with me playing the Dukulele :-)