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 <h1>&nbsp;Series: Meet the Dream Team Members</h1>
 <span style="font-style: italic;">(In January 2007, we announced the 11
 charter members of the <a
  href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDreamTeam">NetBeans
 Dream
 Team</a>, a community-oriented group of highly skilled NetBeans users
 devoted to promoting NetBeans and working on the NetBeans Project. In
 these interviews discover who they are, why they are passionate about
 NetBeans and what goals they have for the NetBeans project.)<br>
 </span><br>
 <br>
 <h1>Vinicius Senger</h1>
 <img style="width: 204px; height: 296px;"
  alt="NetBeans Dream Team Member Vinicius Senger"
  src="../../../images_www/articles/interviews/vinicius-senger.jpg"
  align="left" hspace="10" vspace="5">Dream Team member Vinicius Senger
 got his start in the tech world at
 the age of eight toying around with Basic and Z80 computers. By 13, he
 was exploring software development and using tools such as Clipper and
 Dbase. <br>
 <br>
 After years of working professionally with C, C++, Perl, VB, VC++, he
 discovered Java nine years ago and today is a Java Enterprise Architect
 and develops web solutions. He is also the founder of Globalcode, the
 largest Java Training Company in Brazil.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>What was your introduction to NetBeans?</h5>
 I began with NetBeans 3.x. At that time, I used the Swing Editor a lot,
 but the Enterprise features were not as good as they are now today.
 When NetBeans 4.0 was released I was impressed with the Enterprise
 features and NetBeans became my only IDE.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>How long have you been teaching Java?</h5>
 For the last seven years. Most of my students are developers who are
 migrating from other programming languages, such as VB, Delphi, Cobol,
 and a minority are developers looking for specific training to become
 Sun certified.&nbsp; We use NetBeans to teach user interface design and
 all the amazing features centered around Web resources such as tags,
 filters, listeners, etc.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>What makes the NetBeans IDE an ideal tool for teaching Java?</h5>
 NetBeans is the most complete IDE—it has servlets, JSP, custom Tag,
 Swing, JavaME, WebServices, EJB, etc. With all these features, the
 students are able to generate code using the wizard and are able to
 study the generated code. This makes the Java learning curve softer. <br>
 <br>
 When I began teaching EJB, we used Eclipse without plugins, and
 students would take more than three hours to creat a simple EJB Hello
 World. Today, the same exercise using the NetBeans IDE takes no more
 than 15 minutes with the EJB wizard feature. Now students only need to
 check the xml file instead of creating it themselves. They click “run”
 to compile, build and deploy.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>Why should new developers work with the NetBeans IDE?</h5>
 Java teachers generally believe that student developers should be able
 to make components with and without IDEs. Compile, build jar,
 environment/classpath, deployment and debug—all these can be done with
 and without the tool. It is important to teach both ways because
 sometimes all you might on hand is a terminal. That said, an IDE is a
 good tool, and NetBeans is perfect for students. It is customizable. It
 has a simple download, the best project type abstraction, easy
 debugging code, and users can discover new types of components using
 the wizards. Plus, it is a beautiful example of community development.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>How has NetBeans IDE 6.0 changed the way you teach?</h5>
 It is the “Eclipse killer” because now we have the ability to generate
 hashcode, equals, constructor and it has a powerful refactor tool. We
 are very excited about NetBeans 6.0 at Globalcode, and we should finish
 upgrading all our computers with this new version by the next month.<br>
 <br>
 <h5><img style="width: 394px; height: 295px;"
  alt="Students at GlobalCode"
  src="../../../images_www/articles/interviews/globalcode-class.jpg"
  align="right" hspace="10" vspace="5">What are your students developing
 with the NetBeans IDE?</h5>
 They are currently using NetBeans for different things: most of them to
 make Swing interface and for developing web applications. They using
 different frameworks and architectures: Hibernate, Spring, Faces,
 Struts. They are very happy and we are seeing a lot of companies
 adopting NetBeans thanks to our students' influence.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>As a developer, how do you use the IDE?</h5>
 I am currently using NetBeans to develop a new Globalcode web
 site,&nbsp; along with JSF, Facelets, JPA/Hibernate, Jboss Seam, EJBs,
 WebService and a lot of AJAX components like Richfaces. Our customers
 will be able to create online estimates, there will be a discussion
 forum for students, video-classes and many other features. I'm happy
 with NetBeans because I can mix a couple of frameworks without any
 difficult and I can custom build .xml processes using incremental
 deployment.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>Are you working on any projects?</h5>
 I'm completing a training book about design patterns: “33 Design
 Patterns with Java Samples”. I wrote about 23 GoF and 10
 popular/commercial patterns like BluePrint. (What is GoF?) All the
 images within my book came from NetBeans's UML tool. I love the “Apply
 Design Pattern” feature inside the class diagram editor. It's very COOL!<br>
 <br>
 <h5>How do you contribute to the NetBeans
 community as a Dream Team-er?</h5>
 My main contribution is evangelizing. And I do this by talking about
 NetBeans and demonstrating its amazing features to people in Globalcode
 classes. It's safe to say that each month I introduce NetBeans to more
 than 400 developers! I hope to use a lot of NetBeans 6.0 for my
 projects and also inside
 Globalcode environment; to give a lot of feed-back; to ask for more
 features (always!); and convince more companies to adopt. <br>
 <br>
 <h5>Back to teaching, how would you introduce Java to a novice?</h5>
 Easy. The first class should focus on how much money you can make with
 Java!!! That's always an attention grabber. But beside money, I would
 recommend BlueJ with NetBeans because using Web or Swing interface it
 is more intuitive for understanding object oriented concepts.<br>
 <br>
 <h5>What is the strangest teaching experience you've had?</h5>
 I once had a student fall asleep in a training that I was giving on
 dealing with exception in Java EE Web applications. As I finished my
 lecture and instructed the class to start an exercise the sleeping
 student suddenly woke up and said aloud: “We need to catch the
 exception! We need to catch the exception!” Amazingly he fell right
 back asleep again. I guess even in his sleep he was learning to program!<br>
 <br>
 <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(February
 2008)</span><br>
 </div>
 <h2>More Dream Team Profiles</h2>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-bien.html">Adam
 Bien</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-bold.html">Emilian
 Bold</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-brabant.html">Vincent
 Brabant</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-chandler.html">Wade
 Chandler</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-giudici.html">Fabrizio
 Giudici</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-plewe.html">Joerg
 Plewe</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-silva.html">Edgar
 Silva</a><br>
 <a
  href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-urrutia.html">Ibon
 Urrutia</a><br>
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	<h1> Series: Meet the Dream Team Members</h1>
	<span style="font-style: italic;">(In January 2007, we announced the 11
	charter members of the <a
	href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDreamTeam">NetBeans
	Dream
	Team</a>, a community-oriented group of highly skilled NetBeans users
	devoted to promoting NetBeans and working on the NetBeans Project. In
	these interviews discover who they are, why they are passionate about
	NetBeans and what goals they have for the NetBeans project.)<br>
	</span><br>
	<br>
	<h1>Vinicius Senger</h1>
	<img style="width: 204px; height: 296px;"
	alt="NetBeans Dream Team Member Vinicius Senger"
	src="../../../images_www/articles/interviews/vinicius-senger.jpg"
	align="left" hspace="10" vspace="5">Dream Team member Vinicius Senger
	got his start in the tech world at
	the age of eight toying around with Basic and Z80 computers. By 13, he
	was exploring software development and using tools such as Clipper and
	Dbase. <br>
	<br>
	After years of working professionally with C, C++, Perl, VB, VC++, he
	discovered Java nine years ago and today is a Java Enterprise Architect
	and develops web solutions. He is also the founder of Globalcode, the
	largest Java Training Company in Brazil.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>What was your introduction to NetBeans?</h5>
	I began with NetBeans 3.x. At that time, I used the Swing Editor a lot,
	but the Enterprise features were not as good as they are now today.
	When NetBeans 4.0 was released I was impressed with the Enterprise
	features and NetBeans became my only IDE.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>How long have you been teaching Java?</h5>
	For the last seven years. Most of my students are developers who are
	migrating from other programming languages, such as VB, Delphi, Cobol,
	and a minority are developers looking for specific training to become
	Sun certified.  We use NetBeans to teach user interface design and
	all the amazing features centered around Web resources such as tags,
	filters, listeners, etc.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>What makes the NetBeans IDE an ideal tool for teaching Java?</h5>
	NetBeans is the most complete IDE—it has servlets, JSP, custom Tag,
	Swing, JavaME, WebServices, EJB, etc. With all these features, the
	students are able to generate code using the wizard and are able to
	study the generated code. This makes the Java learning curve softer. <br>
	<br>
	When I began teaching EJB, we used Eclipse without plugins, and
	students would take more than three hours to creat a simple EJB Hello
	World. Today, the same exercise using the NetBeans IDE takes no more
	than 15 minutes with the EJB wizard feature. Now students only need to
	check the xml file instead of creating it themselves. They click “run”
	to compile, build and deploy.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>Why should new developers work with the NetBeans IDE?</h5>
	Java teachers generally believe that student developers should be able
	to make components with and without IDEs. Compile, build jar,
	environment/classpath, deployment and debug—all these can be done with
	and without the tool. It is important to teach both ways because
	sometimes all you might on hand is a terminal. That said, an IDE is a
	good tool, and NetBeans is perfect for students. It is customizable. It
	has a simple download, the best project type abstraction, easy
	debugging code, and users can discover new types of components using
	the wizards. Plus, it is a beautiful example of community development.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>How has NetBeans IDE 6.0 changed the way you teach?</h5>
	It is the “Eclipse killer” because now we have the ability to generate
	hashcode, equals, constructor and it has a powerful refactor tool. We
	are very excited about NetBeans 6.0 at Globalcode, and we should finish
	upgrading all our computers with this new version by the next month.<br>
	<br>
	<h5><img style="width: 394px; height: 295px;"
	alt="Students at GlobalCode"
	src="../../../images_www/articles/interviews/globalcode-class.jpg"
	align="right" hspace="10" vspace="5">What are your students developing
	with the NetBeans IDE?</h5>
	They are currently using NetBeans for different things: most of them to
	make Swing interface and for developing web applications. They using
	different frameworks and architectures: Hibernate, Spring, Faces,
	Struts. They are very happy and we are seeing a lot of companies
	adopting NetBeans thanks to our students' influence.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>As a developer, how do you use the IDE?</h5>
	I am currently using NetBeans to develop a new Globalcode web
	site,  along with JSF, Facelets, JPA/Hibernate, Jboss Seam, EJBs,
	WebService and a lot of AJAX components like Richfaces. Our customers
	will be able to create online estimates, there will be a discussion
	forum for students, video-classes and many other features. I'm happy
	with NetBeans because I can mix a couple of frameworks without any
	difficult and I can custom build .xml processes using incremental
	deployment.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>Are you working on any projects?</h5>
	I'm completing a training book about design patterns: “33 Design
	Patterns with Java Samples”. I wrote about 23 GoF and 10
	popular/commercial patterns like BluePrint. (What is GoF?) All the
	images within my book came from NetBeans's UML tool. I love the “Apply
	Design Pattern” feature inside the class diagram editor. It's very COOL!<br>
	<br>
	<h5>How do you contribute to the NetBeans
	community as a Dream Team-er?</h5>
	My main contribution is evangelizing. And I do this by talking about
	NetBeans and demonstrating its amazing features to people in Globalcode
	classes. It's safe to say that each month I introduce NetBeans to more
	than 400 developers! I hope to use a lot of NetBeans 6.0 for my
	projects and also inside
	Globalcode environment; to give a lot of feed-back; to ask for more
	features (always!); and convince more companies to adopt. <br>
	<br>
	<h5>Back to teaching, how would you introduce Java to a novice?</h5>
	Easy. The first class should focus on how much money you can make with
	Java!!! That's always an attention grabber. But beside money, I would
	recommend BlueJ with NetBeans because using Web or Swing interface it
	is more intuitive for understanding object oriented concepts.<br>
	<br>
	<h5>What is the strangest teaching experience you've had?</h5>
	I once had a student fall asleep in a training that I was giving on
	dealing with exception in Java EE Web applications. As I finished my
	lecture and instructed the class to start an exercise the sleeping
	student suddenly woke up and said aloud: “We need to catch the
	exception! We need to catch the exception!” Amazingly he fell right
	back asleep again. I guess even in his sleep he was learning to program!<br>
	<br>
	<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(February
	2008)</span><br>
	</div>
	<h2>More Dream Team Profiles</h2>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-bien.html">Adam
	Bien</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-bold.html">Emilian
	Bold</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-brabant.html">Vincent
	Brabant</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-chandler.html">Wade
	Chandler</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-giudici.html">Fabrizio
	Giudici</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-plewe.html">Joerg
	Plewe</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-silva.html">Edgar
	Silva</a><br>
	<a
	href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/interviews/dreamprofile-urrutia.html">Ibon
	Urrutia</a><br>
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