Friday May 05, 2006 Seapegasus Blog
Friday May 05, 2006 Save your buffers, the end of the world is nigh
You might not know the German yellow-press newspaper that Ed's latest blog entry reminded me of (and if you do, you probably wish you did not). -- Apart from pulling stunts like claiming the world is coming to an end right after JavaOne (source? crop-circle!), this paper enjoys subtly 'informing' readers with objectively harmless but easily misleading headlines. Or in other words, Ed stating his opinion that Sun seems "ready to join Eclipse" doesn't mean anything more than that, it is his opinion. As far as we know, Sun is not planning to join (Ed lists the reasons himself).
Speaking of the end of the world after JavaOne -- This may not only be your last chance to grab an one of the nifty give-aways (iPod, USB-memory or the NetBeansField Guide), but also your last chance to nominate a fellow NetBeans user for the NetBeans Community awards! ;-o Better send your nomination now to nbdiscuss@netbeans.org or webmaster@netbeans.org, with a few words about why you think your nominee should be recognized. Today is the last day for nominations! The nomination period will be followed by a voting period that will run until next Friday (May 12th).
In case you too were planning to nominate Roumen -- despite him being the role model of a NetBeans Award candidate, I don't see Sun giving an award to an already renowned Sun employee, when there are so many honorary Evangelists out there that would deserve the recognition (and Gosling-style prizes) too! But it sure is flattering you thought of him. :-)
PS:
Whether you're nominated or not -- why not start again to build up reputation in preparation for next year's community award? ;-) NetCAT 5.5 (the community acceptance testing program) invites every community member with experience or interest in Java EE programming to participate in quality testing NetBeans IDE 5.5.
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