The weather started out much better than yesterday; the view from my hotel room this morning:
The first session I attended had an unwieldy title: "High-Performance Java Foundation Classes/Swing Technology in the Real World: Lessons Learned While Developing Yahoo! Site Builder." It was done by Ethan Nicholas of Yahoo. This was probably my favorite presentation during JavaOne: an interesting...
The day dawned foggy. Or at least it was foggy when I got up, which was later than normal. The view from my hotel room:
After a long Day One, I decided to move at a slower pace (although as I type this, it doesn't look like I will get to bed any earlier tonight). I started with "Rich Applications with the J2EE platform and AJAX," presented by Tor Norbye and Greg Murray. I am not an expert...
I was in meetings in the morning. Then from 12:30 until after 1:30 I was in the Hands On Lab attending another short meeting and attempting to debug a last minute problem. Actually, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine was attempting to debug a problem and I was sort of assisting. We were convinced that it was a software problem, but in the end it turned out to be a one-time hardware glitch.
It ate up...
It started with a bang: loud rock music that set the mood. It ended with a reception where there was ample laughing, talking, and general celebrating. With over 550 attendees, NetBeans Day 2005 was a huge success!
The program started with Hideya Kawahara talking about and demoing Project Looking Glass. You might be wondering how Looking Glass is connected to NetBeans. Well, a lot of the code...
One thing that has been a bit inconvenient about using the NetBeans Profiler is that it had very specific requirements of the JDK that was being profiled. The Profiler is dependent on the new JVMTI specification, which was not completely supported in the original JDK 5.0 release. This meant that to profile an application you had to use either the special build of JDK 1.4.2 that shipped with the...
The NetBeans Profiler has been making progress for a while now. The beta program has brought in quite a bit of feedback and the development team released their latest milestone, M7, earlier today. You can download it here.
If you have been running M6 you'll want to uninstall it before installing M7. This is easy to do. In your NetBeans installation directory there is a subdirectory called...
NetBeans has supported the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) version control software for a long time now. But I have never been completely happy with how that support works. In my environment there are two major problems: it's difficult to use it from behind a firewall and it is not integrated with the NetBeans project system.
The next version of NetBeans provides a solution: completely redone...
I've written about NetBeans Day before and its excellent price: it's free. Please register in advance - it'll be easier to get you in the door that way. And remember, the first 300 in the door get a free copy of the new NetBeans Field Guide. Also on the freebie list: there will be opportunities to win free 128MB USB drives.
We've been busy nailing down the agenda for NetBeans Day. It looks...
During a recent vacation my girlfriend and I toured the Barnes Collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art. The Barnes contains one of the world's most impressive collections of art in private hands. Viewing it was an awesome experience, made even more so by the opportunity to gaze at Matisse's 1907 masterpiece, The Red Madras Headdress.
Henri Matisse was a genius and an artist of...
This year's JavaOne will be my first. I've always wanted to attend, but there was always some sort of impediment. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to this year's event.
To add to the excitement, I saw an entry on Charles Beckham's weblog that on Monday evening, June 27, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in the JavaOne Pavilion, experts from Sun's JavaOne conference sessions will be on hand to chat...
