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Vincent Brabant

Vincent has been a developer for 10 years and a Java developer for three years. He likes working with open source projects, like tomcat, ant, and NetBeans, and joined the NetBeans project to see first hand if open source projects were a reality not just a myth. He believes that NetBeans is more open source than other open source projects ;-)
Vincent leads the localization of the IDE in french, and supports the french speaking members of NetBeans through the mail lists and localisation of content and news. He is a strong advocate promoting NetBeans and Java. Outside of computers, Vincent adores his wife and children and looks foward to a time when he can make more time to actively persue his passion to travel.

 

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Reaction about the Charles Ditzel Interview

Sun Developer Network published an interessting interview of Charles Ditzel. But I wanted to react on some...

what I would like to see in a next version of NetBeans
Somes little enhancements I would like to see in next release of NetBeans are the following: 1. today, NetBeans editor permits to use Camel Notation. So, if I type NPE and press Ctrl-Space, I obtain...
NetBeans 5.0 Flash Tutorials in French

When the béta of NetBeans 5.0 has been available, I decide to write somes nice Flash tutorials for NetBeans 5.0.

But they are, today, only available in french.

You can find them on...

Thank You NetBeans !!!!

Today, I received my award that was given by James Gosling at the NetBeans Day preceding JavaOne 2005.

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NetBeans IDE 4.1 Flash tutorials

Today, I submitted 3 new flash tutorials to the NetBeans website.

Thoses tutorials were existing in the past, but exclusively for the french community.

I am now a Sun Certified Programmer for the J2SE 5.0

Hurrah, Youppie, Yes, Great, ..

Today, I received my Examination Score Report where it's indicated that I am now a Sun Certified J2SE 5.0 Programmer.

I passed the exam the 1st...

NetBeans Workshop in Luxembourg and Belgium

This week, Sun Belux invites me to a Technical Workshop, to celebrate the launch of NetBeans IDE 4.1.

They organized a Technical workshop on May 25 (Luxembourg) and May 26 (Belgium).

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Test your Java code on-line !!!
Recently, by reading JavaRSS, I discovered a very nice site that permits us to type and run piece of Java code. That site is ...
Wink is Great
Recently, by reading a post in Javarss, I discovered Wink, a Tutorial and Presentation creation software.
NetBeans IDE 4.2 adopt a new graphic chart
It seems that it exists a tradition at NetBeans to modify their graphic chart every years, 2 years.

UPDATE: It seems that they decided to use that new look and feel...

What I would like to see in NetBeans 4.2 !!!

In his blog, Ludovic Champenois, one of the lead enginners on the J2EE functionality in NetBeans, asked what we...

Javapolis 2004 Day 4: NetBeans 4.0 and Beyond

NetBeans really rocks.
As many of you know, I am a long-time user of NetBeans, now. Already 4 years now that I am using NetBeans.

Javapolis: Day 4: Real Time Java

During the keynote of this morning, Someone of Sun (I am sorry, but I don't remember who) speaked about Java and Real Time Application.

Java and Real Time Application ? Not possible, I...

Javapolis Day 3: Tim Bray

He spoked about Java. But not about the Java Language itself. No. About the Java Virtual Machine.
He explained that dynamic language like Perl, Python could accelerate the development, and...

Javapolis Day 3: Rick Ross

Yesterday morning, Javapolis began with a Key note of Rick Ross, the founder of http://www.javalobby.org.
He explained...

Javapolis 2004 University Day 1: JDK 5.0 In Action

Firstly, I was amazed that they were using a Apple portable. Reason why I was amazed is that JDK 5.0 is not yet available for Apple's PC.

I was thinking how they will show JDK 5.0 in action...

Javapolis 2004 University Day 1: AspectJ in Action

Javapolis 2004 started today.

Today, it was the first day of the University.
The morning, during 3...

NetBeans @ Javapolis

Edition 2004 of javapolis will start the 13 of decembre.

Last year, Sun did a presentation of Rave (Sun Java Studio Creator).
This year, Tim...

Refactoring to Patterns

Everyone speak about Patterns, Specially Design Patterns.

And I readed a lot about patterns:

MetaData existed before JDK 1.5
Look at definition of Metadata:
The J2SE 1.5 metadata feature is a facility that allows developers to annotate their code so that tools can generate boilerplate code (e.g stub...
Why do we need more that one source directory for one project ?

Dear all,

Did you remember one of my blog concerning the usage of Ant to manage project ?

It seems that Netbeans people read my blog and...

NetBeans at FOSDEM

The 21 and 22 February, in brussel, belgium, were organized the fourth session of FOSDEM.

Ian Formanek, of NetBeans, had two sessions planned for...

Will the future release 3.6 permit to NetBeans to stay in the race or is it too late ?

NetBeans team announced some weeks ago the near future of NetBeans. Already last month it was possible to test the new window systems integrated in the trunk release.

Very nice result.

I saw the new Java Studio Creator in action (codename: Rave) at BEJUG
Today, like yesterday, I had the possibility to follow somes conference at Javapolis, organized by the Belgian Java User Group BEJUG.

I missed the one concerning...

I want an IDE that manage his projects by using Ant !
Ant is today the de facto standard to compile, test, deploy your application.

But, you are not developping with Ant, you are developping with an IDE

And when you write your...

What's happens with Marketing by Sun ?
Look at J2EE servers:

  • Before, you had iPlanet AppSrv 6
  • then you had Sun One Application Server 7
  • now, you have Java System Application Server 7/8.

I want to continue to use my own style, even if I work in a team !!!
I like freedom.