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| Issue # 625 - Feb 03, 2014 |
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| <h1>Project News</h1> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8995">Vote for the 21st NetBeans Governance Board!</a></h2> |
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| The NetBeans Governance Board election kicks off with a group of fantastic community nominees who now need your vote. The voting period runs through midnight, <b>Monday, February 17th</b> in the last time zone.</p> |
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| <h1>Tutorials</h1> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8998">YouTube: Smart Migration to JDK 8</a></h2> |
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| Don't know where to start with JDK 8? Here's a complete kit of info getting you in the right frame of mind for upgrading your code to leverage the Java 8 language changes.</p> |
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| <h1>Articles</h1> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8996">Getting Started with Lambdas in NetBeans IDE</a></h2> |
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| Brett Ryan outlines some experiments he's been working on to get familiar with the Streams API in Java 8.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8991">NetBeans IDE and PrimeFaces</a></h2> |
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| The PrimeFaces team highlights new features in NetBeans 8 for developing PrimeFaces applications quickly and easily.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8993">NetBeans IDE and Vaadin</a></h2> |
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| "NetBeans excels at least in Maven support and JPA features," writes Matti from the Vaadin team, in a new article about the Vaadin plugin for NetBeans IDE.</p> |
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| <h1>Community</h1> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8992">Monetizing the NetBeans Plugin Portal?</a></h2> |
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| Robert Liguori outlines a new idea he's been thinking about for some time -- how to energize the development of NetBeans plugins by making it possible for them to be sold via the NetBeans Plugin Portal.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8997">My Five Favorite NetBeans IDE Features</a></h2> |
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| Distraction Free mode, PrimeFaces, and more... author and consultant David Heffelfinger reveals his 5 favorite features in NetBeans IDE.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8994">Why NetBeans IDE is Great for Teaching Java</a></h2> |
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| Johannes Weigend, lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim, Germany, explains why and how NetBeans is a good tool to use when teaching Java.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8989">Jfokus: Apples and Oranges, Highlights of Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans IDE</a></h2> |
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| <b>5 February</b>: attend a Jfokus session comparing NetBeans IDE with Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA. Not a "shoot out", but a balanced comparison!</p> |
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| <h2><a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=8990">Vaadin/NetBeans JavaEE Webinar</a></h2> |
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| <b>3 April</b>: the Vaadin team and NetBeans team present a webinar together on developing Vaadin applications, using the new NetBeans Vaadin plugin created by the Vaadin team. Sign up today!</p> |
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