Wednesday, September 28th is Saint Wenceslas Day, which is a national holiday in the Czech Republic. Most of the NetBeans development team is in Sun's Prague office, which is closed for the holiday.
But some folks are working anyway so that they can deliver the beta release of NetBeans 5.0. And for that, I am thankful. I've been awaiting the beta for a while now so that I can download it and...
A few weeks ago I had lunch with Norman Richards. Norman and Sam Griffith, Jr. are the authors of a new book from O'Reilly: JBoss, A Developer's Notebook. This book is part of O'Reilly's Developer's Notebook Series. These books (according to the web site) are described as:
A Developer's Notebook is just what it claims to be--the often frantic scribbling and notes that a true-blue alpha geek...
Day 1
We started early. Bob Brewin was scheduled to do a keynote at 11:00 AM. Charles Beckham and I were on the hook to do demos during Bob's keynote. To beat the rush hour traffic (which can be brutal here in Beijing) we decided to meet for breakfast at 6:00 AM and then head on over to the Olympic Sports Center. Once we were there we had some time to kill, which led to the photo above.
The...
(Left to right: Tim Boudreau, Martin Ryzl, Gregg Sporar, James Gosling)
After the success of the NetBeans Day that we did back in June, it was decided that NetBeans should go on a world tour. In other words, take NetBeans Day on the road to the folks who didn't make it to JavaOne in San Francisco. The first stop on the tour was Beijing, China where we held NetBeans Day on September 12th, in...
For quite a while now if you downloaded a development build of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you probably noticed the version number on it: 4.2. It was in the download dialog. It was on the splash screen that displayed when you started the IDE, etc.
After considerable discussion (including on the mailing lists and even an online poll) the decision has been made that...
