TheServerSide Java Symposium was
in Las Vegas on March 21-23.
This
year was my first to speak (and attend, for that matter). It was
a well-organized conference with some top-notch content. The
sessions that I enjoyed the most were:
The Enterprise Service Bus: Do We Really Need It? By
Mark Richards of IBM. Mark is an excellent and...
Mobile Monday is a
community of mobile technology enthusiasts. They have chapters
all over the place. The ring leader for the chapter here in Austin
is
Enrique Ortiz. A while back he
asked if Sun would be interested in sponsoring
a Mobile Monday meeting. We agreed and it happened on March 19.
The featured speaker was Stuart Marks who works in
Java ME engineering. Stuart
did a short...
The late Rodney Dangerfield was a comedian whose trademark line was: "I don't
get no respect."
In the NetBeans IDE there is a window available called Favorites. Unlike
its siblings the Projects, Files, and Runtime windows it does not
get opened by default the first time you start the IDE. I suspect that is
why so many users have never discovered it. The end result is that the
Favorites window...
On March 14th
at the Java Metroplex Users Group (MUG)
in Dallas I did a presentation entitled What Is NetBeans? Actually, there
was not much formal presentation, at least in terms of the standard
approach of slide after slide after slide. Instead, I mostly
did demos of the NetBeans IDE.
My goal was to illustrate three answers:
NetBeans is a...
St. Paul College in
St. Paul, Minnesota
has recently switched over to the NetBeans
IDE for teaching Java courses. They apparently teach Java to quite
a few students because they consistently produce large numbers of graduates who
have passed the
Sun Certified Java Programmer exam.
The chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences is a dynamo named...
