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<h1>300 Reasons to Subscribe to NetBeans Weekly Newsletter</h1>
<span style="font-style: italic;">July 16, 2007</span><br>
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<h5>This week marks a milestone publication for the NetBeans Weekly
Newsletter—its 300th issue! Delivered to email boxes every Monday since
January 29, 2001, <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/archive.html"><span
 style="font-style: italic;">NetBeans Weekly</span></a> has kept the
NetBeans community informed about developments—big and small—related to
NetBeans.</h5>
<h5><br>
Here are 300 reasons why <a
 href="mailto:%20nbweekly-subscribe@netbeans.org">subscribing</a>
to <span style="font-style: italic;">NetBeans Weekly</span> is a great
idea.<br>
</h5>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1.</span> Start the week with the
latest news about NetBeans. It's good for
you.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2.</span> We show you how to tap into
the power of the <a
 href="http://www.javalobby.org/eps/netbeans_platform/">NetBeans
Platform</a>. <br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3.</span> And jazz up your programming
with <a href="https://netbeans.org/features/ruby/index.html">Ruby</a>.
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">4–14.</span> We support 11 other
languages as well: Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, BPEL, CSS, XSL, JSP,
DTD, TLD and WSDL. <br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">15.</span> <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/kb/kb.html">Tutorials, tutorials,
tutorials</a>!<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">16.</span> Insider tips on cool things
you can do with NetBeans, such as watching a movie in NetBeans. (<a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2007-01-29.html">Issue
#276</a>)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17.</span> Our tips are free, and
legal.<br>
<br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">18–31.</span> Updates about the NetBeans
WorldTour—14 locations this coming season—and other <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/calendar.html">NetBeans
events</a> around the world.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">32.</span> <a
 href="http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/">Modules,
modules, modules</a>!<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">33-38.</span> Six Evangelists
spreading the Gospel about NetBeans around the world and racking up
converts along the way. (<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/david/">Dave
Botterill</a>, <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/">Tim
Boudreau</a>, <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/">Brian
Leonard</a>,
Ashwin Rao, <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/">Gregg
Sporar</a>, <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/roumen">Roman Strobl</a>.)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">39.</span> Goodbye Gridbag. Hello
Matisse! (<a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-01-18.html">Issue
#225</a>)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">40–116.</span> Get inspired by our
sample applications—we've got 77. Check out our <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/kb/samples/">top five</a>.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">117.</span> Learn why the NetBeans
Profiler rocks. (<a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2007-04-23.html">Issue
#288</a>)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">118–148.</span> Tune in to the <a
 href="http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/category/Podcasts">NetBeans Podcasts</a>
(31 episodes, thus far) with Evangelists Roman Strobl and Gregg Sporar.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">149.</span> A chance to win cool
prizes—snazzy NetBeans t-shirts, NetBeans books or USB sticks—if you
listen till the end.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">150.</span> Developers who have made
the switch to NetBeans. (<a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2007-02-12.html">Issue
278</a>)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">151–160.</span> Still not convinced
about switching? Here are <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/switch/why.html">10 more reasons</a>.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">161.</span> The occasional <a
 href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/2006/11/get_medieval_on.html">pop-culture
reference</a>. (<a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-11-28.html">Issue
268</a>) <br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">162.</span> And a nod to <a
 href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/eclipse_and_netbeans%3A_a_tale">Charles
Dickens</a>. (<a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2006-12-11.html">Issue
270</a>)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">163–167.</span> Number of issues
edited by Jaroslav Tulach, co-creator of NetBeans.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">168.</span> The NetBeans Weekly is
open-source too! Be a part of the process by <a
 href="mailto:%20nbnews_contrib@netbeans.org">submitting</a> project
news,
blog entries, tutorials, and more, that you think the NetBeans
community should know about.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">169.</span> Get lectured by the <a
 href="http://blogs.sun.com/divas/category/NetBeans+Visual+Web+Pack">Divas</a>
and develop Visual Web applications with style.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">170-241.</span> Screencasts are good. <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/kb/kb.html">72 demos</a> and counting....<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">242–250.</span> Links to the global
network of <a href="http://planetnetbeans.org/">NetBeans bloggers</a>
blogging in nine languages.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">251–263.</span> Profiles of the <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/contribute/dreamteam.html">NetBeans
Dream Team</a>—13 diverse and passionate NetBeans advocates.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">264–266.</span> Three issues of <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/magazine/">NetBeans Magazine</a>.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">267–281.</span> We support developer
literacy. Stock your library with any of these <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/kb/articles/books.html">15 books about
NetBeans</a>.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">282–293.</span> NetBeans for everyone
everywhere. Track the progress of 12 translation teams working to
localize NetBeans for non English-speaking developers. Better yet, <a
 href="http://nblocalization.netbeans.org//">join the translation
effort!</a><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">294–298.</span> NetBeans is the only
IDE you need, and we have five <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/articles/jolt2007.html">Jolt
awards</a> to prove it.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
299.</span> Never running out of ways to <a
 href="http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/kirk_pepperdine_further_integrated_into">trick
out NetBeans</a>.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">300.</span> <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/community/releases/60/index.html">NetBeans
6.0</a> is due out soon. Do you really want to miss all the <a
 href="https://netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1057">fun</a>?
<br>
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