Super cool contest just launched. Blog about NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta for 10 changes to win $500 AMEX gift certificate (sweet!) and 100 chances to win a cool NetBeans t-shirt (seriously, I've heard they are really cool).

Simply:

1. Download
the NetBeans
IDE 6.1 Beta (or later release) and try it out.

2. Blog about
it!

3. Submit
the URL to
your
blog.

4. Do it before
April 18, 2008!

 Really, could it be easier? Ya know y'all are checking out NetBeans anyways, so a write something up and submit for your chance to win. :)

-Heidi

 

Hi folks,
We had a great chat today with David Botterill and Brian Leonard on
NetBeans 6.0. For those of you who didn't make it, the transcript is
below. Hope to see you at our next event on February 14, 2008 at 10am PST in
the Developer Playground when we chat with the writers of java,sun.com.
:)

Hot off the press! New SDN Chat in Second Life! Check it out:

Please join us in Sun's Developer Playground in Second Life on Thursday,
January 31 at 10am PST as Brian Leonard and David Botterill, NetBeans
Technology Evangelists, Sun Microsystems, discuss NetBeans 6.0. Learn
how this latest release enables greater developer productivity with a
faster, smarter editor, multi-language support, and a customizable IDE.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%202/135/102/65

I'm hoping to see y'all there!