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 <h1>Interview with NetBeans Community Award 2006 Winner Ram&oacute;n Ramos</h1>

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 <td><a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog"><img
 src="../../../images_www/articles/interviews/ramon-ramos.png" class="align-right"/></a></td>
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 <td><p>Ram&oacute;n Ramos lives and studies in Germany and is a long-time fan of NetBeans IDE.
 He uses the NetBeans platform for student projects and is an enthusiastic Module developer
 and <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog">blogger</a>.</p></td>
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 <h3>Ram&oacute;n, you just won the community award 2006 for your contributions, what was your
 first reaction? </h3>

 <p>I read about my nomination in Roman's web log. That was good news.
 Then I thought, wow, can I win? To be honest, I really wanted to be among the winners.
 And when I later saw luminaries like  Wade Chandler and Tom Wheeler
 being nominated, too, I thought, uh-oh, this is going to be tough...

 <p>When I heard my fellow community members had elected me
 one of the winners, that really made my day. Thank you!</p>

 <h3>How long have you been using the NetBeans IDE? What got you hooked?</h3>

 <p>I used NetBeans for the first time at a student job.
 I think it was about 2001, there was a
 Forte 1.0 Release Candidate and I think there also was a NetBeans release at the
 same time, I'm not sure anymore. Later I got a new job where I worked from home
 a lot. During that time, I didn't use NetBeans, until
 late in 2005, when I finally bought myself a new PC and I chose to base one of my
 student projects on the NetBeans platform.
 This way I gained experience und got hooked.

 <h3>Tell us about the plug-ins you wrote!</h3>

 <p>I have written a couple of small plug-ins:
 My first module was <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060227">Web Search</a>, a plug-in
 for searching a word or phrase selected in the Editor in a web search engine.
 I also wrote a <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060430">Jode/Jad Decompiler integration module</a>,
 and a simple <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060402">local history module</a>,
 and some more.

 <p>Apart from that, I updated the old
 <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060410">AspectJ module for NetBeans 5.0</a>.
 AspectJ is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming">aspect-oriented</a>
 extension to the Java programming language.

 You can expect the now renamed AspectJ open-source project on sourceforge
 (<a href="http://aspectj-netbeans.sourceforge.net/">http://aspectj-netbeans.sourceforge.net/</a>)
 to become active again soon.
 This will give all the other interested community members the opportunity to contribute again
 to this project and improve AspectJ support in NetBeans.

 <p>All of these modules can be installed from my update center:
 http://people.freenet.de/ramon.ramos/nb/updates.xml</p>


 <h3>Where do you get ideas for new plug-ins?</h3>


 <p>NetBeans gave me the opportunity to develop something that is useful for people.
 Since I learned Java some years ago, I wanted to program something useful in
 Java &mdash; but I couldn't think of anything that had not been done before. </p>

 <p>So when I came back to NetBeans, I also began to read related web sites,
 mailing list posts, etc. This is how I found out some things that NetBeans was lacking but
 which seemed pretty easy to implement. Those things were
 useful and I really wondered why they weren’t already there. So over the
 holidays, I just went and implemented them. I was glad to see
 there were some features I could contribute to NetBeans.</p>

 <p>Then, there are some <a href="http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t17999">(now old) feature wishlists for NetBeans</a>
 that I used as additional source of inspiration. I also took a look at the features in other IDEs to see what
 they have that can be ported. I am also keeping track of feature
 requests in mailing lists, and so on.</p>

 <h3>What are your resources? </h3>

 <p>
 At first, I went through the <a href="http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/">tutorials</a>.
 They are really nice. Other resources are the <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDeveloperFAQ">Developers FAQ</a>,
 the <a href="https://netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/">API documentation</a> and javadocs, and then of course the
 <a href="https://netbeans.org/community/lists/">mailing lists</a>
 with their incredibly helpful communities. Now and then,
 I also take a look at the NetBeans sources themselves.


 <h3>Which IDE features help you most?</h3>

 <p>Easy answer: The module development wizards. They are very well done and I'm looking forward
 to seeing more of that. Way to go!</P>

 <h3>If you could improve one thing about NetBeans, what would that be?</h3>

 <p>I'd like to see more tutorials that focus on letting people enhance NetBeans itself. </p>


 <h3>Which tutorial would you like to read next?</h3>

 <p>I would like to read a very fat book about platform development.

 <h3>Ram&oacute;n, thanks for the interview!</h3>
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	<td><a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog"><img
	src="../../../images_www/articles/interviews/ramon-ramos.png" class="align-right"/></a></td>
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	<td><p>Ramón Ramos lives and studies in Germany and is a long-time fan of NetBeans IDE.
	He uses the NetBeans platform for student projects and is an enthusiastic Module developer
	and <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog">blogger</a>.</p></td>
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	<h3>Ramón, you just won the community award 2006 for your contributions, what was your
	first reaction? </h3>

	<p>I read about my nomination in Roman's web log. That was good news.
	Then I thought, wow, can I win? To be honest, I really wanted to be among the winners.
	And when I later saw luminaries like Wade Chandler and Tom Wheeler
	being nominated, too, I thought, uh-oh, this is going to be tough...

	<p>When I heard my fellow community members had elected me
	one of the winners, that really made my day. Thank you!</p>

	<h3>How long have you been using the NetBeans IDE? What got you hooked?</h3>

	<p>I used NetBeans for the first time at a student job.
	I think it was about 2001, there was a
	Forte 1.0 Release Candidate and I think there also was a NetBeans release at the
	same time, I'm not sure anymore. Later I got a new job where I worked from home
	a lot. During that time, I didn't use NetBeans, until
	late in 2005, when I finally bought myself a new PC and I chose to base one of my
	student projects on the NetBeans platform.
	This way I gained experience und got hooked.

	<h3>Tell us about the plug-ins you wrote!</h3>

	<p>I have written a couple of small plug-ins:
	My first module was <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060227">Web Search</a>, a plug-in
	for searching a word or phrase selected in the Editor in a web search engine.
	I also wrote a <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060430">Jode/Jad Decompiler integration module</a>,
	and a simple <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060402">local history module</a>,
	and some more.

	<p>Apart from that, I updated the old
	<a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/ramlog/20060410">AspectJ module for NetBeans 5.0</a>.
	AspectJ is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming">aspect-oriented</a>
	extension to the Java programming language.

	You can expect the now renamed AspectJ open-source project on sourceforge
	(<a href="http://aspectj-netbeans.sourceforge.net/">http://aspectj-netbeans.sourceforge.net/</a>)
	to become active again soon.
	This will give all the other interested community members the opportunity to contribute again
	to this project and improve AspectJ support in NetBeans.

	<p>All of these modules can be installed from my update center:
	http://people.freenet.de/ramon.ramos/nb/updates.xml</p>


	<h3>Where do you get ideas for new plug-ins?</h3>


	<p>NetBeans gave me the opportunity to develop something that is useful for people.
	Since I learned Java some years ago, I wanted to program something useful in
	Java — but I couldn't think of anything that had not been done before. </p>

	<p>So when I came back to NetBeans, I also began to read related web sites,
	mailing list posts, etc. This is how I found out some things that NetBeans was lacking but
	which seemed pretty easy to implement. Those things were
	useful and I really wondered why they weren’t already there. So over the
	holidays, I just went and implemented them. I was glad to see
	there were some features I could contribute to NetBeans.</p>

	<p>Then, there are some <a href="http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t17999">(now old) feature wishlists for NetBeans</a>
	that I used as additional source of inspiration. I also took a look at the features in other IDEs to see what
	they have that can be ported. I am also keeping track of feature
	requests in mailing lists, and so on.</p>

	<h3>What are your resources? </h3>

	<p>
	At first, I went through the <a href="http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/">tutorials</a>.
	They are really nice. Other resources are the <a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDeveloperFAQ">Developers FAQ</a>,
	the <a href="https://netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/">API documentation</a> and javadocs, and then of course the
	<a href="https://netbeans.org/community/lists/">mailing lists</a>
	with their incredibly helpful communities. Now and then,
	I also take a look at the NetBeans sources themselves.


	<h3>Which IDE features help you most?</h3>

	<p>Easy answer: The module development wizards. They are very well done and I'm looking forward
	to seeing more of that. Way to go!</P>

	<h3>If you could improve one thing about NetBeans, what would that be?</h3>

	<p>I'd like to see more tutorials that focus on letting people enhance NetBeans itself. </p>


	<h3>Which tutorial would you like to read next?</h3>

	<p>I would like to read a very fat book about platform development.

	<h3>Ramón, thanks for the interview!</h3>
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