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| <h1>NetBeans Day Hyderabad: Standing Room Only</h1> |
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| What was the most sought after item at NetBeans Day Hyderabad? Judging |
| from the turnout, a good guess might be: a vacant seat.<br> |
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| Empty |
| chairs were hard to come by on February 23 when over 900 |
| attendees gathered inside one of the halls of Indiaís largest |
| convention center for a chance to listen to presentations from NetBeans |
| experts and partners and to connect with other users. <br> |
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| <a href="../../images_www/articles/nbday-hyderabad07/audience.jpg"><img |
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| hspace="5" vspace="5"></a>NetBeans |
| Evangelist Ashwin Rao started the day with an opening address |
| in which he thanked the diverse crowd of developers and students for |
| their impressive turnout and for helping to give NetBeans the clout it |
| enjoys today with millions of downloads and a vibrant community of |
| users. He also acknowledged the impact of the more than 130 partners |
| that presently make up the <a |
| href="../partners/"> |
| NetBeans Partner Program</a>, a program that recognizes companies and |
| individuals that add value to NetBeans through module building, code |
| contribution and endorsements. Before Rao stepped aside for the dayís |
| first presentation, the audience received a quick overview of |
| developments within NetBeans and what to expect in the coming months. <br> |
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| Their |
| appetites already whetted, veteran users and the |
| uninitiated listened attentively as NetBeans writer and popular blogger |
| <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/">Geertjan Wielenga</a> turned |
| the focus onto the NetBeans editor in theìOn the Move with NetBeansî. |
| To give the |
| audience a better idea about improvements to look forward to in the new |
| editor of NetBeans 6.0ófor example, stop-and-replay on run, smart code |
| completion, and moreóWielenga gave his demo from two computers, one |
| displaying the 5.5 editor and the other the 6.0 editor. He later gave a |
| second presentation that day about the NetBeans Platform: |
| ìPorting a Java Application to the NetBeans Platform", in which he |
| moved a simple JMF client to a TopComponent, installed it into the IDE, |
| and then into the NetBeans Platform. <br> |
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| <img alt="NetBeans Technical Writer Geertjan Wielenga" |
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| hspace="5" vspace="5"></a>Unlike |
| airline travelers, why should developers not have a fear of |
| packing? There are no weight restrictions if they ìpackî with NetBeans!<br> |
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| Fortunately for the audience, it never got to hear this bad |
| joke, |
| instead it heard and saw something better: Raoís ìUnpack Your |
| Favorite Featureî presentation, an overview of the |
| Enterprise pack, the Profiler pack and the Visual Web pack, and the |
| ways that each can enhance a developerís productivity. Attendees |
| were also treated to presentations by NetBeans partners YASU Tech and |
| InfoSys. InfoSys engineer, Dr. Kumar, along with Sun developers Prakash |
| Narayan and PCM Reddy, co-presented on ìDid You Get Your Tools with |
| That?î, a Java EE tools demonstration. Afterwards, Kumar announced, to |
| the audienceís delight, that his teamsís developers use NetBeans |
| frequently |
| for their development projects, citing that the |
| IDEís tool set allowed them to develop scalable and robust applications |
| and that it improved developer productivity. |
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| <a href="../../images_www/articles/nbday-hyderabad07/infosys.jpg"> |
| <img alt="Infosys Java EE Presentation" |
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| hspace="5" vspace="5"></a>In classic NetBeans Day fashion, presenters |
| were |
| swamped |
| with questions |
| and comments from attendees during scheduled Q&A segments after |
| individual presentations and during breaks in the dayís program. |
| Wielenga, for example, fielded inquiries about the NetBeans IDE and |
| platform as waiting users typed their questions on his laptop for him |
| to |
| review and respond to later.<br> |
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| Overall, NetBeans Day Hyderabad was another worldTour success with fans |
| learning first-hand about the latest and upcoming enhancements to their |
| IDE of choice, NetBeans experts receiving invaluable feedback about the |
| product, and converts getting an introduction to the vibrant community |
| that is NetBeans.<br> |
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| To those planning to attend upcoming NetBeans worldTour events: reserve |
| early AND show up early--the seats really do fill up quickly!<br> |
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| <h2>Read More about NetBeans Day & Sun Tech Days Hyderabad</h2> |
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| <img alt="" src="../../images_www/articles/nbday-hyderabad07/nbbooth.png" |
| style="width: 222px; height: 238px;" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5">Press:<br> |
| <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/25/stories/2007022500031400.htm">ìWhere |
| Java means Jai Hindî</a> (Newspaper: <span style="font-style: italic;">The |
| Hindu</span>)<br> |
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| Blogs:<br> |
| <a |
| href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/netbeans_day_hyderabad_standing_room">NetBeans |
| Day Hyderabad: Standing Room Only</a> (Geetjan Wielenga)<br> |
| <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/sunnydays/entry/success_at_sun_tech_days"><br> |
| Success at Sun Tech Days</a> (Sathish Vaidyanathan)<br> |
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| <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/madhu/entry/sun_tech_days_hyderabad_day">Sun |
| Tech Days, Hyderabad 2007</a> (Madhu K.)<br> |
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| <a |
| href="http://sksarraju.blogspot.com/2007/02/sun-tech-days-hyderabad-2007-well-its.html">Sun |
| Tech Days, Hyderabad 2007</a> (Sravan Kumar Sarraju)<br> |
| <br> |
| <a |
| href="http://adij.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/sun-tech-days-2007-hyderabad/">Sun |
| Tech Days 2007, Hyderabad</a> (Adi)<br> |
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