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Kirill Grouchnikov's "Design, uninterrupted" Series Reaches Post #16
Posted by kfarnham on April 21, 2010 at 8:55 AM PDT
Kirill Grouchnikov recently published Design, uninterrupted #16:
Geertjan Discovers Raytheon Applying NetBeans in Mission Critical U.S. Department of Defense Software
Posted by kfarnham on March 31, 2010 at 9:43 PM PDT
Geertjan Wielenga pointed out the Raytheon Virtual Control enterprise management and control system, "yet another NetBeans Platform application in the defense sector." I'm sure I must have sent out an application for employme
No Formal Arrangement/Agreement Exists between java.net and Sonatype
Posted by kfarnham on March 23, 2010 at 1:58 PM PDT
You may have heard about an announcement about a formal arrangement between java.net and Sonatype. Unfortunately, this announcement is premature at best. While Oracle has talked with Sonatype in the past few weeks, there is no contract in place at the moment. We are committed to providing better support for Maven in the future, but we are exploring several options.
rkusterer: Time to Join the NetBeans Community Testing Programs!
Posted by kfarnham on March 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM PST
On Twitter, there was a tweet from @javatools asking "Want to help testing NetBeans and have your name included in the NetBeans source code?" and pointing us to rkusterer's Time to Join the NetBeans Community Testing Programs! page: "The NetBeans Team is pleased to announce the r
Jeff Friesen: Comic Books and Java
Posted by kfarnham on February 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM PST
On his home site, Jeff Friesen, author of 21 java.net articles, has posted an interesting little article titled Comic Books and Java. In the article, Jeff presents a Java application that reads and displays digitized comic books.
Justin Kestelyn Tech Cast Live interview with Mark Reinhold is now available in audio-only format
Posted by kfarnham on February 24, 2010 at 7:31 PM PST
On Twitter, I saw that an audio-only edition of Justin Kestelyn's February 16 Tech Cast Live interview with Mark Reinhold is now available. To see the interview as well as hear it, visit https://channelsun.sun.com/media/show/15028.
JavaFX Olympics Event Schedule App Is Quite Useful for Olympic Fanatics
Posted by kfarnham on February 20, 2010 at 8:45 AM PST
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics web site includes a nice little JavaFX Olympics events schedule application that's quite useful for people who like following almost every Olympic sport. Actually, I suppose it's useful even if you follow only a few sports.
JFrog Announces Artifactory 2.2.1 Release
Posted by kfarnham on February 18, 2010 at 11:25 PM PST
I received a message from the JFrog team, announcing the release of Artifactory 2.2.1:
Hudson 1.346 Release Analyzed by Tyler Ballance and Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Posted by kfarnham on February 16, 2010 at 6:25 PM PST
The Continuous Blog has two new posts about the new Hudson 1.346 release. In Hudson 1.346 Released, Tyler Ballance breaks down the 1.346 release in terms of bugs fixed and enhancements.
Java ME SDK Team: First Aid when Emulator Doesn't Start
Posted by kfarnham on February 16, 2010 at 6:25 PM PST
On the Java ME SDK Team Blog, Tomas Brandalik provides First aid when emulator doesn't start:
