I originally intended to write this blog entry in August, but I got busy.... Back in August I was working on my demos for NetBeans Day Beijing. I had used the nice visual editor in Project Matisse for building a simple name and address form. The strings are loaded from a .properties file. Since I wanted to do the demo in both English and simplified Chinese, I sent that .properties file to...
I just finished the new book from Bruce Tate: Beyond Java, published by O'Reilly. For the record, I'm a big fan - I really enjoyed his Bitter Java. And while Beyond Java is well worth your time and money, it is important to realize the book has some limitations. Tate acknowledges these himself; this is from page 177:
Of course, the whole premise of this book is arrogant beyond belief. I'm...
I had meetings in the morning, so I did not get to see the keynote address by Simon Phipps. I'm hoping John O'Conner will post a summary.
So I started out the day with a quick stroll around the exhibit floor. Since most of the material was in Japanese, I didn't learn much. I was happy, however, to see good traffic at the NetBeans table in Sun's booth.
The first session I saw was "JXTA...
I've been in a rut all week: I wake up at about 4:00 AM and can't get back to sleep. Since I've been staying up late that naturally results in a bit of sleep deprivation. The good news is that it was not difficult for me to be ready to go at 7:00 this morning, which was our agreed upon kick off time. The "our" consists of myself, Charles Beckham, and Jeff Jackson. Jeff was doing a keynote...
I arrived late to the keynote session - but I did get there in time to hear David Rivas sing the praises of the NetBeans IDE Mobility Pack. He was describing the current state of and future predictions for Java mobile development.
He was followed by John Pampuch and Mark Hapner whose comments have been summarized very nicely by John O'Conner, saving me the time of typing up my notes. :-)
I took...
NetBeans Day Tokyo was a blast. We've done this gig before in San Francisco and in Beijing. It's part of a world tour.
This time around I did two presentations/demos. The first was essentially an introduction to NetBeans. It's important that folks understand that NetBeans is really two different things: it's a platform for building rich client applications and it's an Integrated Development...
