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| <h1>NetBeans Weekly News<br>Issue #209 - Aug 30, 2005</h1><hr> |
| NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community<br> |
| Issue #209 - Aug 30, 2005<br> |
| URL: <<a href='https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-08-30.html'>https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2005-08-30.html</a>><br> |
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| <hr><pre>NetBeans Governance Board Elections - The Results Are In |
| Vincent Brabant and Rich Unger were elected to serve the next six months as the community |
| elected members of the NetBeans Governance Board along with the Sun appointed Tim |
| Boudreau. Full announcement: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=29">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=29</a>> |
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| Flash Demo of the New NetBeans CVS Support |
| Support for CVS has been completely redone in the upcoming release of NetBeans. To get a |
| look at just a few of the cool new features, check out this Flash demo that Roman Strobl |
| has prepared. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=30">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=30</a>> |
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| Tech Tip: Remove Duplicate and Unused Entries from Your Property Files |
| This Tech Tip shows you how to optimize your code by removing duplicate or unused |
| Bundle.properties entries from your project. It demonstrates the use of the UNIX command |
| line as well as the Bundlizer tool for identifying possibly 'stale' keys. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=31">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=31</a>> |
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| NetBeans.next - Call It 4.2 or 5.0? |
| This thread has certainly grabbed the attention of our community. From purest version |
| numbering through marketing judgement there have been many takes on this topic. One thing |
| is for sure. The next NetBeans release is looking more promising than ever and you can |
| already test much of what is expected in the release. You can view the whole thread here |
| and share your opinion: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=44">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=44</a>> |
| After you have reviewed the thread you can even cast a vote here: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=33">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=33</a>> |
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| Hot Hot Hot NetBeans Plug-in Developments |
| What follows is so hot off the presses that it's all still sizzling... Geertjan provides |
| us with yet another gem on his blog: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=34">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=34</a>> |
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| E-commerce Made Easy: eBay and the NetBeans IDE |
| At the eBay Developers Conference, NetBeans evangelist Brian Leonard presented the latest |
| on the NetBeans IDE and how it helps speed and simplify building applications for the |
| eBay platform. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=35">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=35</a>> |
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| Tutorial - Using Apache Axis in NetBeans 5.0 |
| A blogger did not want to have to install Sun Java Application Server on their computer |
| only for web services. After searching around the Internet the gathered resources were |
| used to put together a short tutorial on how to set up NetBeans projects to use Axis for |
| web services. |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=36">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=36</a>> |
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| How We Do Usability Studies of NetBeans |
| Roman has a very nice blog entry where he shares some of his insights on a usability |
| study that took place over a two day period. It involved the usability testing of the |
| development version of NetBeans with emphasis it's editor: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=37">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=37</a>> |
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| Philosophical Question About Frequent Saving of Files |
| Is it OK for a program/IDE to automatically/frequently save edited docs? This is a |
| conversation that is taking place on the nbui mailing list and starts here: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=38">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=38</a>> |
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| Tip of the Day Behaviour |
| Gregor wants to have a Tip Of the Day Behaviour in his module and is using the latest dev |
| build. You can pick up a few tips for a tip of the day behaviour from this openide-dev |
| thread: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=43">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=43</a>> |
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| XTT v5.2 Thin Client Java Web Apps |
| XTT v5.2 now support NetBeans 4.1. You can find a link to their expert presentation on |
| JavaLobby, download the XTT StockTrader Demo and get more information here: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=39">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=39</a>> |
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| Fortune Module |
| Gregor Kovac has developed a Fortune module that looks in user's HOME/.fortune directory |
| for fortune files that works with NetBeans 4.1 and the upcoming release. For development |
| he uses JDK 5.0 and NetBeans 4.1 and 5.0 daily builds. Download: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=40">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=40</a>> |
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| Humai Trader Module |
| Hongwei Deng has put together the Humai Trader Project on java.net. Humai Trader is a free, |
| open source stock technical analysis tool building on pure java. It will also be a |
| platform for custom indicators and charts. The main interest will be W.D. Gann's approach. |
| For more information and a link to the download head over to: |
| <<a href="http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=42">http://services.netbeans.org/newsletter/story.php?id=42</a>> </pre><hr>This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was brought to you by Robert Demmer.<br> |
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