Sun Tech Days @ Hyderabad - report
Friday Feb 20, 2009
The NetBeans platform development session went well.... I could cover most of the topics and could demonstrate a simple application to the audience. But due to the last minute issues related to projector compatibility with my laptop (Sony Vaio) I had to use a borrowed laptop and quickly setup my main demo program there. The main demo is being developed here : https://playfull.dev.java.net
On the second day I manned the 'Connected Developer' booth with Ashwin and John (http://kenai.com). Most of the visitors were students. Apart from the typical questions that I get all the time when I meet students (number one is 'How Sun Makes money out of opensource software' 
), there were many technical questions on NetBeans and project kenai. Few students were interested in VirtualBox, and I showed them a live demo of Virtual Box running on my laptop. On NetBeans, many students were asking about Server integration for web projects, frameworks such as Hibernate and struts, profiling a web application and questions like 'does NetBeans have a cool HTML editor just like the dreamweaver ? why NetBeans does not support SWT, whats the advantage of NetBeans over eclipse, how can I migrate NetBeans 3.x application into the latest one and where to look for help on this, can I do 'this' in JavaFX, how can I get started with JavaFX and few more questions that I cannot remember now...
Many students were intersted in writing plugins for NetBeans IDE, using VirtualBox, getting started with JavaFX, Project Kenai, Zimbly, OpenSolaris Project looking glass and some more ..
Overall it was a great experience to meet many students and ofcourse, my blog readers ..
snaps from the event... first my session on NetBeans platform development :
second the fun event in the evening to unwind...
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Great to see you presenting at the event! Way to g...
Thanks Gowri!