NetBeans Innovators Grants

The NetBeans Innovators Grant is part of Sun Microsystems initiative to give US$ 1 million to open source developers across the globe to work on their favorite Sun-sponsored project.

Whether it's a bug fix, a tutorial, a localisation or a new application built on top of NetBeans - all you need to do before March the 3rd is fill in a form.

Click the image for more details.

Good luck!
Matt

Posted at 12:22PM Feb 27, 2008 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

MySQL Worldtour

Sun and MySQL meetups are coming near you. This special world tour brings together the expertise, best practices, and technology know-how directly to you. Find out when they are going to be in your city. See Locations London, UK Wednesday, March 5 The Lamb Pub Lambs Conduit Street, London. Time: 6:30 - 9:00pm MySQL Host: Mark Baker MySQL Exec: Marten Mickos Sun Exec: Simon Phipps

Posted at 11:09AM Feb 27, 2008 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

A win for Java and the consumer!

This, in my opinion, is great news! Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war If you didn't know, Blu-Ray includes Java in it's specification for the various overlays, animations, effects and enabling network communication etc. - which is all pretty cool!

Watch Now

February 7, 2008 Deep Dive: Blu-ray Disc Java Sun's Blu-ray Disc architect Bill Foote demonstrates some of the powerful capabilities of BDJ, the Java platform for Blu-ray Disc.

 

Posted at 11:49AM Feb 19, 2008 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

Go Solaris! :-)

Posted at 02:05PM Feb 05, 2008 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

JavaUK Roadshow (Still FREE!)

Agenda

08:30 - Registration and Breakfast
09:20 - Introduction,
09:30 - What's new and cool in NetBeans 6.0
10:20 - What, When, How, Why use the NetBeans Platform
11:10 - BREAK
11:30 - Tools for Simplifying SOA
12:30 - Technologies for Creating Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications
13:20 - LUNCH
14:10 - Introduction to the Swing Application Framework and Beans Binding
15:00 - Introduction to (J) Ruby on Rails
15:50 - Q&A (All)
16:10 - CLOSE

 

Hope to see you there!

Matt

Posted at 12:15AM Jan 30, 2008 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

Apple releases JavaSE 6 DP8

Cooool!

http://developer.apple.com/java/

Matt

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Posted at 12:22PM Dec 19, 2007 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

Making NetBeans sexier

I've been using NetBeans for many years now, and I always find whatever release I use, I make the fonts and icons smaller (kindof how Eclipse is out of the box).
We had a short discussion internally about making this default and to my amazement I found  many people wanted BIGGER fonts :-o
Anyhoo... :-) here are my tweaks that I find make NetBeans even sexier to use:

1] Make the IDE's fonts smaller

Open up {NETBEANS_HOME}/etc/netbeans.conf

Add --fontsize 11 to  the netbeans_default_options within the quotes.

Here's how is looks on my Mac:

2] Make the editor's fonts smaller

Preferenences menu -> Fonts -> Monospaced 12 works well for me.

3] Use small toolbar icons

Right click the toolbar.

If I can help just one person... :-)

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Posted at 11:38AM Dec 10, 2007 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[3]

Choosing a mobile phone...

There has been a lot of talk of mobile devices recently for the obvious reason.  What this hype has highlighted is that mobile devices are becoming rather more interesting now operators are opening up network access, reducing charges, and the devices improve in capabilities.

When your choosing your next phone, you may like to consider something more than a 10mp camera, a sliding keyboard, or even if it has Java or not.

Having the open source Java platform on your device is great to enable third-party applications like Google mail, Google maps, Opera mini, games and so on - but with the latest JSRs such as location based services, scalable vector graphics, bluetooth, camera access, advance multimedia, web services and more, you may want to consider a phone that contains even more capabilities that are open to worlds most popular development platform - did I say it's open and cross-device :-)

 

This page has been in existence for a while now, but I think it's a page that deserves more air time. 

The JavaME Device Table

Just take a look at the Nokia N76 for example!  Cooool.

So now, if you want to develop a location-based, contact less payment, video streaming, 3D, social application :-) for a whole range of mobile devices, easily, you can! 


Oh, and I guess that's where I plug NetBeans mobility too :-)

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Posted at 11:05PM Oct 29, 2007 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[0]

Even more FREE stuff!!!

Can you see & feel the excitement in the Sun camp yet????!!!!

Whether you have AMD or Intel desk or laptop systems, go get a FREE starter kit of Sun's next release of Solaris with...

Preview features Tutorials/documentation Live bootable OS media Latest compilers/tools Source code

Posted at 11:35AM Mar 07, 2007 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[1]

Get a FREE T-Shirt!!!!!!

During two of my hands-on labs at JavaUK/TechDays in London, I'll be giving away NetBeans World Tour T-shirts to lucky attendees.

Be sure to attend "JavaEE 5 HOL" on Wednesday 14th @ 2pm, and "jMaki Technology for Building Web 2.0/Ajax HOL" on Thursday @ 11.05am!

Why? Because I'm generous! ;-)

Go SIGN UP now!

If you can't make it - get a FREE DVD instead...
or our latest billion $ OS innovations:

Posted at 03:16PM Mar 05, 2007 by Matt Hosanee in Archive  |  Comments[3]