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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #262 - Oct 16, 2006</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #262 - Oct 16, 2006<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-10-16.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-10-16.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>NetBeans 5.5 Release Candidate Two Now Available
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| The second release candidate for the NetBeans IDE 5.5 is now available.
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| NetBeans 5.5 supports the Java EE 5 platform, and the Java Persistence,
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| EJB 3 and JAX-WS 2.0 specifications. Also available are updated
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| versions of the Profiler and Mobility Pack. Download it and try it out!
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=843">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=843</a>>
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| General NetBeans 5.5 information can be found here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=844">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=844</a>>
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| GUI Builder Update Pack for NetBeans 5.5
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| Following GUI Builder Update Pack for NetBeans 5.0, there is now Update
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| Pack for NetBeans 5.5, available via the 5.5 Beta Update Center. The
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| pack brings most recent GUI building features currently available in
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| NetBeans 6.0 development builds as well as several important stability
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| improvements.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=845">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=845</a>>
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| NetBeans Interviews - Yarda Tulach
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| Yarda was there when it all started: Hear how NetBeans got its name,
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| why hardly anyone wanted to build on top of the 3.4 platform, how the
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| NetBeans team caught Jonathan Schwartz's attention at Java One in 1998,
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| and the good side of being the "enfant terrible".
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=846">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=846</a>>
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| NetBeans History Quiz
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| So you think you know NetBeans? But do you also know its history? Then
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| take part in our birthday quiz! All submissions with the correct
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| answers will be entered in a drawing for five USB drives and NetBeans
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| 5.5 T-shirts. We will announce the winners next week.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=847">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=847</a>>
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| NetBeans is on Fire!
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| In this interview with Charles Ditzel, an architect at Sun Microsystems,
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| learn recent developments in Java tools and the challenges of helping
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| partners migrate to Java platform software.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=848">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=848</a>>
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| Contest: Brazilian Portuguese Translation & Testing for NetBeans 5.5
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| Translate NetBeans 5.5 and you could win an iPod! The biggest prize
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| however will be the first-time release of NetBeans IDE in Brazilian
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| Portuguese! The Brazil home page or the other team members can tell you
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| how to get started translating and how to use the translation memory
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| editor. For more details, visit the Brazil team's well-organized 5.5
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| localization page.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=850">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=850</a>>
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| German PlanetNetBeans
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| The German language feed was recently introduced to PlanetNetBeans.
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| Stay current with the latest blog entries on NetBeans in following
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| languages: Cesky, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais, Japanese and
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| Portuguese. If you are blogging about NetBeans be sure to join the fun.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=851">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=851</a>>
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| OpenOffice NetBeans Integration Spec.
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| Charles Ditzel writes, "Recently, I showed Chuk's very cool NetBeans
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| plugin that allows you to run OpenOffice/StarOffice components inside
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| NetBeans, now there is a spec that has been introduced, OpenOffice
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| NetBeans Integration spec."
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=852">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=852</a>>
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| Firefox Greasemonkey Script
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| Jesse wrote a Firefox Greasemonkey script to fix an old nb.org issue -
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| including the summary of an issue in the page title, so that your
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| browser window/tab shows you the whole issue summary, instead of only
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| issue number. The issue, and script, are here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=853">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=853</a>>
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| EmPowered by NetBeans
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| Don Casteel won a First Prize award of $5,000 from the Sun Grid Cool
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| Apps Developer Contest for his 3D Fractal Rendering project. It was
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| inspired by Apophysis and ElectricSheep, written in 100% pure Java -
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| J3D, developed in NetBeans with the ComputeServer module and rendered
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| on the SunGrid ComputeServer. Congratulations.
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=860">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=860</a>>
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| Bored? Check out the Magic NetBeans Logo
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| Alan Burlison's Blog entry has recently highlighted a video by Marco
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| Tempest doing some street magic with something that looks like the
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| NetBeans logo. Nice find Alan.
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| NetBeans Logo - <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=858">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=858</a>>
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| Direct Video Link - <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=859">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=859</a>>
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| Alan's Blog - <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=857">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=857</a>>
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| If you find something else that connects with NetBeans and we highlight
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| your link in the weekly newsletter you will win the new and upcoming
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| NetBeans 5.5 t-shirt as soon as it becomes available. Send an email to
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| robert dot demmer at sun dot com
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| NetBeans WorldTour - Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 23, 2006
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| All aboard! Next stop on the NetBeans WorldTour, Buenos Aires. Space
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| is limited so reserve your spot today!
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=855">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=855</a>>
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| NetBeans Plug-In Development and Modular Design Workshop at OOPSLA 2006
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| NetBeans team members Jarda Tulach and Tim Boudreau and Rich Unger of
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| Nuance Communications will be hosting an all-day workshop on modular
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| design and plug-in development at OOPSLA 2006 next week in Portland,
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| Oregon, USA. The workshop will be on October 23rd. To sign up, send
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| email to tim dot boudreau at sun dot com. Abstract is available here:
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=861">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=861</a>>
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| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=856">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=856</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robbert Demmer.<br> |
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