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Why is Netbeans So Successful

2012-01-21T19:59:00.001+05:30

The Netbeans does not require any introduction at all. It is one of the best IDE. Many times I think upon this question "Why is Netbeans so successful?". I have now found out the answer to this question.
    The answer is very simple. To produce a quality product, you need to hear end user's feedback and implement them since the product is being developed for them. The product becomes useless if end users opinions and feedback are not listened and left unimplemented.
      Netbeans development team does the same. Every time when a new version of Netbeans is ready for release, a program called as NetCAT is conducted for all the developers (End users) to provide feedback , find bugs and to decide whether the product is ready for release or not.
      Recently Netbeans 7.1 was released and I participated in NetCAT 7.1 program. I am really glad that they listened my views and the bugs found by me were fixed. Here is the screen shot of the mail I received from Netbeans :

I had also participated in the previous NetCAT program and in that program too they listened my views. So I just want to say that Netbeans does listen our views to make a quality product and thats what makes it a successful IDE.

First NetCAT introductory chat

2011-09-12T20:34:00.000+05:30

The NetCAT 7.1 has already started. There was an introductory skype chat for the new NetCAT participants. The meet was scheduled on 9/9/2011. I did attend the meet and I am glad to share my experience about it. If you have missed the introductory chat, don't worry. I will share the link of the chat transcript.

The meeting began at 11.30 pm (IST) and ended around 1:00 am. Many NetCAT participants joined the meet irrespective of their optimum timing as time zone differed around the globe. Around 25 NetCAT participants joined this meet. The meeting was headed by Jiri Kovalsky, NetBeans Community Manager. He is a member of NetBeans Quality Engineering (QE) team who is responsible for quality of NetBeans Debugger. Marian Mirilovic, NetBeans Quality Engineering manager was also present for throwing light on various important things about NetCAT and also for clearing doubts.

So in this blog, I am sharing the brief information about the discussion of the meet. The whole chat transcript is present here : Introductory Chat Transcript

The agenda of the meet was :

1. Invitation, agenda, chat rules

2. NetCAT basics

3. Program schedule

4. Roles, expectations

5. Others: tribes, terms, CAT points

1. Invitation, agenda, chat rules

All the participants were invited and added to the skype meet. The rules were very simple. :D The chat was being moderated by jiri kovalsky to avoid the chaos and we were told to ask questions (if we had) immediately after the topic so that no question is left unanswered and to make chat productive.

2. NetCAT basics :

NetCAT stands for NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing - a program whose purpose is to get NetBeans community test NetBeans IDE and accept the new release. So actually the NetCAT is nothing else than a Beta testing program and it has become a very important part of stabilization phase.

Importance of NetCAT :

NetCAT participants use bleeding edge development builds on the real-world projects in unique configurations and setups which cannot be simulated on any cost.

providing early feedback often gives enough time to fix discovered defects prior to the final release. And it's not only about submitting bugs - many NetCAT participants also help with debugging and verification of fixes, review of documentation or even certification of milestone builds like Beta, RC or FCS!

Benifits of NetCAT :

NetCAT is mostly about communication. For this there is mailing list (netcat@netbeans.org) or web forum.With these channels we can discuss discovered problems with other NetCAT colleagues, ask for support (votes or reproduction), argue about priority, help each other, share knowledge etc. We can also use Wiki pages and as NetCAT participants do not have to pass through CAPTCHA verification!
Another benefit is that we can file exception reports as bugs from the NetBeans IDE directly to Bugzilla!
Jiri kovalsky writes weekly status reports on Tuesdays summarizing important achievements. So your achievement gets recognition in whole world. :)

3. Program Schedule :

NetCAT program typically takes 3 months .

First of all, Beta version of Netbeans 7.1 will be stabilized, which is planned for the end of September.Testing of NB 7.1 Beta, will start from next week.

Around Beta release NetCAT Tribes i.e. small teams covering certain functionalities will be created to participate in certification of milestone builds.
After Beta, docs team will have all tutorials for 7.1 ready, requiring your review so this will be a chance to earn some CAT points. ;)
Certification of 7.1 RC is scheduled to start on October 20.

4. Roles and Expectaions :

There are already over 100 subscribers on the netcat@netbeans.org list. Among this, majority is of NetCAT participants and the rest are NetBeans engineers: QE, developers, writers and few managers.
Click responsibilities of QE engineers to have a look at there responsibility. This is the team responsible for giving primary support - answer your questions, navigate you in Bugzilla etc.

Expectations from NetCAT Participants:

To file good bug reports which means to describe in detail what's wrong (including error messages) ideally with steps to reproduce, include screenshots if appropriate, attach possible exceptions or full thread dumps if IDE is deadlocked. Also specify your working environment: NetBeans build number, version of JDK and operating system.
To stay active, if asked for a feedback respond, if asked to provide more informations in BugZIlla please respond

5. Others : tribes, terms, CAT points

The various Terms used during this program :

” FCS" is a First Customer Ship i.e. first publicly released build that passed final certification.
"RC" is a Release Candidate i.e. build that can potentially become FCS if its follow-up testing does not discover any showstopper. Typically first two RCs contain some P1 bugs and RC3 or RC4 get eventually released as FCS.
"HR" stands for High Resistance mode i.e. phase of stabilization when P3 bugs are no longer being fixed and only P1 or P2 bug fix integrations are allowed.
"CF" abbreviation means Code Freeze i.e. point of time when codebase is considered frozen unless showstopper (P1) is found and must be fixed.
"Waiving" means deferring a P2 bug fix. This step is taken for P2 bugs that are serious but that cannot be easily fixed, their fix is impractical, dangerous or not easily verifiable and it simply needs more time. Such bug is waived (gets 7.1_WAIVER_APPROVED keyword) and is no longer considered as potential showstopper for the release.

NetCAT specific terms :

"tribes" are small teams (up to 5 members) of NetCAT participants with interest in particular feature. Their main goal is to help NetBeans QE during certifications by testing the feature in milestone candidate builds according to official test specifications. Then tribes give either Go or NoGo verdicts and release is either approved or postponed.
Then tribes give either Go or NoGo verdicts and release is either approved or postponed.
"CAT points" are something like virtual coins that all NetCAT participants unknowingly :) collect throughout the program depending on their activity.
- A bug report is worth 4 CAT points.
- RFE is for 2.
- one e-mail adds you 1 CAT point.
- Most valuable are tutorial reviews (5 CAT points).
- participation in certifications (5 CAT points per each Go/NoGo verdict)
- surveys (5 or even 10 CAT points).
- You can also earn extra points for something exceptional of course.
In the end, all points are totalled, all participants sorted and given number of best participants rewarded. See Activity comparison fromNetCAT 7.0

Then there was question answer round where doubts were asked by participants and solved by the experts. :) The detailed question and answers are available in the Chat Transcript.

So friends this was the discussion in the meet. I hope I have covered each and every point that was discussed in the meet. This would be helpful for all the newcomers of the netCAT who missed the meet.

Converting Win7 to MAC OS X Lion

2011-09-08T23:14:00.000+05:30

Hi friends,
We all are familiar with MAC OS X lion's lovely appearance and its features. But we cannot have MAC in our Intel/AMD pcs. MAC OS requires its own hardware. So In order to enjoy MAC's appearance, one thing can be done. We can install mac's theme on win7 which will make win7 look like MAC. :)

I have converted my win7 to mac. Here's the screenshot :

This theme will transform win7 entirely to MAC Lion including boot screen, welcome screen, icons, and much more. You will feel as if you are using MAC :)

You can download this transformation pack here : MAC Lion OS X transformation pack .

CAUTION :
Before installing this pack, make sure to create a restore point. It may happen that after installing this pack, your pc may hang or create some other issues and make win7 unstable. For me, this pack was installed successfully without any problem. But sometimes it may happen that its unstable due to some other needs and requirements. So Install at your own risk.

I would appreciate comments after you have successfully installed this theme. Enjoy transforming.. :)

Response To My Bugs

2011-04-30T18:45:00.000+05:30

Whenever a new version of Netbeans is released, the new release contains the enhanced features and bugs resolution. So the new Netbeans 7.0 contains new features and bug resolution. In my earlier post, Experience about NetCAT 7.0 , I have told you about my contributions and bugs i filed.

So in this post, i would like to share that the bugs filed by users are heard and worked upon. When the bugs are resolved, the reporter of the bug is notified after the final release. Here is the screen shot of the mail sent. It really feels good to have the problem resolved. :)

NetCAT 7.0 Experience

2011-04-30T16:24:00.001+05:30

NetCAT 7.0 Experience was the most wonderful experience I ever had. I came to know about this program through NUG nagpur. When I first heard about this program, I was very excited to be a part of this program. I always used netbeans for developing programs. Netbeans is one of the best Editors for making applications easily. I was excited to know what Netbeans team do to make such a great product. So all this excitement pulled me towards NetCAT.

The NetCAT program was coordinated by Jiri Kovalsky. He is a great coordinator and managed the entire program very well. He gives credit even for the small contribution made by the participants. Every week, jiri publishes the weekly report containing the activities of the week. It feels great to have our name mentioned in the weekly report describing the contributions made. Here is one of the status report by jiri : Status report 12 .

I was a part of the API support Tribe, headed by Tushar Joshi sir. Tushar sir managed the tribe well. Here we had to test the netbeans platform. The test cases were divided among all the tribe members. I tested TS_61_project test specification & the report of the tests were TS_61 result.
Apart from testing the test specifications there were several other tasks which I did which includes review of documentation, verifying the fixed bugs, reporting other bugs which I encountered while developing other applications.

Bugs Filed :

I had filed 14 bugs in this program. Some of them were :

All the activities which were done by the participants contained some CAT points. The tasks included : emails sent over the mailing list, number of bugs filed, rfes, documentation review, completion of survey. These CAT points were earned by each of the participants. Based on these CAT points, all participants were ranked accordingly. I am glad that i was ranked 4th among all the 119 participants :) .The ranking of all the participants can be viewd here : NetCAT ranking.

I was even nominated as the best team member by the Netbeans team for Extensive help with Java ME tutorials check for NB 7.0

This was my first experience for the NetCAT and it was really the best experience so far. Well whatever I have achieved was not possible without the help of Tushar Joshi sir. I was totally new to this program and whenever I had doubt regarding anything, I contacted him, and sir happily guided me. With great experience in this program, i am looking forward for the next NetCAT .

NetBeans IDE 7.0 released

2011-04-22T12:52:00.001+05:30

The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. It enables developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.

The New Version of the NetBeans is out with better efficiency and quality.
You can download your copy of NetBeans from official NetBeans site.

Some of the Interesting and new Highlighting features of NetBeans are :

JDK 7

Project Coin support
Editor enhancements: Code completion, hints

WebLogic Server

Streamlined and faster deployment to WebLogic
New server runtime node displaying deployed applications and resources
JSF integration with server libraries

Oracle Database

Simplified connection wizard
Guided installation to JDBC driver
Editing and deployment of stored procedures

GlassFish

GlassFish 3.1 support
Domain restart and log viewer for remote GlassFish
Enable and disable deployed applications

Java

Maven 3 support
JUnit 4.8.2 integration and various JUnit improvements
Remote HTTP URLs supported for Javadoc in libraries and Java platforms
New improved visual customizer for GridBagLayout

Java EE

Improved support for CDI, REST services and Java Persistence
New support for Bean Validation
Support for JSF component libraries, including bundled PrimeFaces library
Improved editing for Expression Language in JSF, including code completion, refactoring and hints

Web Languages

HTML5 editing support
JSON formatter

PHP

Generate PhpDoc
Rename refactoring, Safe Delete Refactoring
PHP 5.3 - Support for aliases

C/C++

Easy import of project from user's existing binary
New Project type where user's source files are located on remote system

NetBeans Platform

Annotations for generating Action registrations in the layer
Performance enhancements & tight integration with Profiler
Additional NetBeans API changes

General

Word wrap in Editor
Enhanced Profiler integration
Less intrusive checking for external changes when switching between the IDE and other programs.

Download Link : NetBeans download page link

Connecting broadband internet in Open suse 11.3

2011-03-11T20:32:00.002+05:30

Hi guys, The new Open Suse 11.3 is awesome. The new open suse is efficient than all its previous versions. It is faster and the new look and feel of the OS makes it more beautiful and tempting to use.

We cannot imagine our world without internet. So we all want to be connected to the world in the new Open Suse.

The steps for connecting are similar to the earlier post of Connecting broadband internet in Open Suse 10.2
But there is slight difference in 11.3.

The procedure for configuring DSL is same as it was in previous post but the software for connecting is changed. Only the name is change and the functionality is similar to the old one.
So in 11.3, instead of kinternet, we have qinternet, the tool for connecting net in open suse.

Yast software manager

(click to enlarge the image)

All the steps to install qinternet are same as we did for kinternet.
:)

So after installing qinternet, you get the same plug icon in the system tray as it was in previous version. So there is no change in the functionality.

Cheers!!!
have fun with new Open Suse.

Connecting Broadband Internet in Open Suse

2011-01-11T10:52:00.001+05:30

Open Suse is one of the flavor of the Linux operating system.

This is small tutorial for connecting Broadband internet in Open Suse. For connecting Internet, you need to configure your DSL setting and you will need to install kinternet through yast. In this tutorial, you will find all the steps required for configuration and installation of Kinternet.

Configuring DSL :

Launch Yast control center.

Go to Network Devices, You will get the following window:

If you do not have any DSL connections, click on add to create a new connection.

Setup ppp mode to “ppp over Ethernet” and click on next.

In providert Name text box, give the desired name for connection ex: connection 1.

Provide you broadband’s username in username text box. If you want kinternet to ask password everytime you connect internet, thn check “always ask for password” otherwise uncheck that checkbox and enter you password and click next button.
After clicking on next button, the system will write all the details onto the disk file.
Now you have successfully configured DSL network settings. Now you need to install kinternet software.

Installing Kinternet software :

Again go to yast software control system.

Select Software from left column and select “software management” from right hand side.

In search bar, type “kinternet” and click on search.

Now check on Kinternet package and click on accept button. The sytem will now install kinternet software. Note : you need to have open suse disk for installing this software. So you will be asked to insert the disk while installation.

After installation, you need to start the kinternet service. Right click on desktop and select “run command” option type kinternet and then click on run.

After kinternet is started, you will see its icon on task bar.
Now to connect internet, double click on tht kinternet icon,

You will be asked for the password. Enter you broadband connection’s password and click on ok. Now you are successfully connected to the internet. On successful connection to the internet, the kinternet icon will change to the following :

This signifies that you are successfully connected to internet.

Net Connection in RedHat

2011-01-09T20:24:00.002+05:30

Hi friends, In my previous post, I told you how to connect net in Open SUSE system. In this post I’ll tell you how to connect net in RedHat OS. following steps are needed for connecting net.

Goto system -> administration -> Network Configurations, you will see following window :

In this window you will find the list of Ethernets and connections (if any) . If you do not find any devices here, do add the devices.

Now in order to setup dsl settings for broadband connection, click on new.

Select “xDSL connection” option and click on forward.

Now here in the provider name, enter the desired name. ex : bsnl or connection1

Enter the username and password given by ISP. And click forward.

You will be given summary about the connection you configured now. Click on apply to finish the configuration steps.

By performing above steps, you have done the required configuration. You need to activate this configuration to connect to the internet.

Now again go to system -> administration -> Network Configurations.

Now you will see the list of Ethernet device along with all the connection configurations link.

Click on the bsnl connection we configured just now and click on activate to invoke the connection.

You will be notified on successful connection.

Enjoy!..

Filing Bugs in Bugzilla

2010-12-13T07:51:00.002+05:30

Hi friends,
I Recently tested TS_65_Appisupport_Sanity Test specifications for netbeans 7.0 beta version. While performing these test cases, I encountered few bugs. So inorder to report these bugs to the netbeans developers, we need to enter these bugs to the bugzilla.

Following steps can be taken to report a bug :

Login to netbeans site.
Go to Enter bug page.
Click on appropriate module. For example, since I am testing for api support, i will click on apisupport link.

Select the appropriate component from the component list. Component specify a NetBeans module in which the error occurred.

Then select the version of the netbeans in which bug occurred.
Then select the platform and OS.
Select the priority of the bug. If u are not sure of the priority of the bug, then select P3.
The CC option is optional which is a space-separated list of netbeans.org login names who are notified about subsequent changes of an issue.
In summary field, just enter the brief title which shortly describes the type of bug. The summary should be 1 line title and not more than that.
Now Enter description of the bug. Description is a detailed description of the problem. The description should possibly include all information needed to reproduce the problem

If you have taken any snap shot of the bug or have log files of the bug, then click on "Add an attachment" button.

browse for the attachment file, enter its brief description and then provide the type of the attachment by selecting one of the 3 radio buttons. If the attachment is Image/ HTML / XML / Binary file then select on "select from list : " radio button and from the combo box, select an appropriate type of attachment.

Click on Commit when done. :)

Bugs Filed By me :

Useful Tips for Reporting a bug :

Always take a snapshot of the bug which may act as a proof of the bug and attach the snap shot while reporting a bug.
Mention the link of the test cases : The link of the test cases you followed.
Mention the build number of the netbeans IDE.
Add [70CAT] in the bug name . This will signify that the bug is filed for the 7.0 version of the IDE.
Add lots of information about the bug so that anyone can reproduce that bug.

WordPress Installation Under Windows

2010-12-09T20:42:00.013+05:30

It is always beneficial for installing the wordpress locally under windows. This is useful to prepare your blog easily before you put it live and most important thing is that it can be prepared locally. Another advantage of the same is for making your blog look more beautiful and install more plugins for your blog.

Here I will tell you the steps which will be helpful for you to install wordpress under windows. For installation you will require different tools such as wordpress and XAMPP server. This setup will hardly require 10 minutes.

Get yourself a XAMPP server and download the exe version of it. Double click on the installation and extract it to c drive.

After extraction, in a dos window, you would be asked for setup, perform that.

Once installation is complete, then run XAMPP server, double click xampp-control.exe . It will look like following :

Start Apache and MySql services by clicking on start button.

After starting the services, Click on Admin button (next to Apache’s service start button) select your preferred language.

After selection of the language, click on phpMyAdmin(on the left column).

In create new database text box, enter wordpress and select utf8_unicode_ci in theMySql connection collation drop down box. Click on create button. Your XAMPP setup is now complete.

Wordpress Installation :

Download Wordpress and extract it under c:\xampplite\htdocs.

Make sure that you have a wordpress folder under c:\xampplite\htdocs. Browse to this folder, searh for a file named wp-config-sample.php. Open it in any text editor and replace the default values by the ones you see under this paragraph. After making changes, save the file

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // enter your mysql password, and if you haven’t installed any before than do not change anything.

('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // do not change anything here

Now enter the following URl in your browser : http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

Enter all the details setup during XAMPP installation such as database name, uname and password and then click on submit.

Congratulations you are done with the installation of the wordpress.

Oracle Netbeans Platform Training

2010-12-01T12:32:00.003+05:30

Oracle conducted NetBeans Platform training on 27th and 28th nov at Infospectrum, nagpur. There were total 17 developers who attended the meet from nagpur, India.

The training was given by Geertjan Wielenga, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Inc through skype and webex. The training was being conducted simultaneously in India, Canada and TOGO. It was the awesome training we had for two days to get familiar with the netbeans platform.

I am really thankful to sir Tushar Joshi, founder and leader of NUG nagpur group for organizing this wonderful training and also sir Geertjan Wielenga, who spent his valuable time for this training in-spite of the busy schedule in weekend.

The day 1 of training was about netbeans platform introduction and architecture with some of the examples. The next day we learned the basics about other apis which can be used in netbeans platform for enhancing the application functionality and also how modular our application can be made using the netbeans.
This training for me was really awesome. Even though I attended the training late, but whatever i attended was really a great help for me to carry on and explore the platform more. And i understood the concepts told by sir.

Here you can find the experience of other members on this training.
Ameya, Atul, Hrushikesh,

here are the pics of the training :

Group Photo

My next goal is to be a netbeans certified engineer. This can be done by creating a small plugin in the netbeans platform.

Guys if you are really passionate about the netbeans platform and want training on this platform, join NUG Nagpur group and be active on our mailing list.
Nugnagpur is ready to welcome all the passionate users for the netbeans.

NetCAT

2010-11-08T12:17:00.001+05:30

NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT)

Is a testing initiative by Netbeans IDE community. The goal of this program is to get active NetBeans community members involved in testing the NetBeans IDE development builds. We just have to provide feedback on product usability, quality and performance. In return, these volunteers are given an opportunity to significantly influence the quality of NetBeans IDE.

For more information, visit the Netcat site

It is a good opportunity for us to actually get through the Netbeans code and work on it to improve the quality of the Netbeans IDE.

Reading on this netcat program, I was attracted with this testing program and decided to contribute in netcat. I dint know how to and where to start from and I am really thankful to Tushar Joshi sir, who helped me and guided me for this program.

So to start with the testing program, we first need to know the test cases which are given to us for testing . The test cases for all the versions of Netbeans are given here : Test cases for all Netbeans versions. But All the testcases specific for Netbeans 7.0 are here.

Now the question arises that how to test netbeans? You can test netbeans for the given test specifications and other than those test specifications on the daily nightly build version of netbeans.

You can find and download the nightly build version of netbeans from www.netbeans.org site. Here is the link : Nightly Build Netbeans.

I’ll keep on telling you my experience on it soon as I come across a new things.

Code Templates in Netbeans

2010-10-22T14:12:00.001+05:30

The code template feature of netbeans allows us to quickly write the frequently used code.

It is like the abbreviation that gets expanded to its long form on using that abbreviation. So in this article I will tell you some of the code templates that are already defined in the Netbeans, which are frequently used and the one which are useful and I will also tell you how to create our own code templates.

Before knowing the default code templates in Netbeans, we should first know how to use the code templates.

So suppose we want to use the code template for Boolean. The abbreviation used is bl. So to write Boolean we just need to write bl and then press TAB. So as soon as TAB is pressed, the Netbeans will write the complete Boolean word for you.

Netbeans is an intelligent editor which on expanding automatically identifies the variable on which the code is to be written. For example for the” for each” loop, the abbreviation used is fore. So whenever fore and TAB is pressed, it will automatically write the for each loop for you and it will automatically find the the variables for which you are writing that loop. So it is an intelligent editor.

Here are some of the code templates :

en = Enumeration
ex =Exception
ob = object
pf = public final
pfm = this will write the method structure as :

Public final void method()

{

}

pm = this expand the abbreviation as

Public void method

{

}

ps=public static
psf public static final
st = String
al = to create a new array list.
bl = Boolean
br =break
dowhile = it will expand this abbreviation for do while loop
for = for loop
fore = for each loop
trycatch = it will expand it to try catch block
psvm= this will write main method.
sout = this will expand to “System.out.println(“”);
soutv=this is used when we want to print the values of variables. So this will be expanded to

System.out.println(“variableName=”+variableName);

So this will automatically take the variable name and will write the code as above.

So these were the templates already present in Netbeans. Now suppose we want to create our own templates. So how to do? How to create our own templates.

I will show you how to create it.

Go to Tools->options.

No go to editor tab and then select code template.

The window will look like :

(click on image to enlarge)

This will show you the list of all the code templates present.

Now to add the new template, click on new and enter the abbreviation. And click on OK. Now in the expanded text area, write the code you want to be expand on writing that abbreviation.

Below you can see a combo box named “Expand template on”. This combo box lets you decide when to expand the text. Here default tab is selected. This means that whenever you will press TAB, your abbreviated code will be expanded.

Click on Ok to save the newly created template.

Selecting the browser for web application in Netbeans.

2010-10-16T13:01:00.001+05:30

By default, whenever we run the web application in netbeans, it chooses the system selected default web browser for running the web application. But there may b case where we need to test a particular web application on some other browser other than the default one.

So following will help you to choose the particular browser for testing web application.

Go to Tools -> options. You will see the following dialogue box:

Now click on the “web browser “ combo box to see the list of the browsers installed and available to chose.

Select the desired browser and click on OK.

You can also specify the arguments if u want to give along with the broser. Click on “edit” button besides web browser combo box. Here is the screenshot of it :

now just run you web application and you will see that you web application is opened in the browser you have selected. ::)

NetBeans User Group (NUG), nagpur

2010-10-10T20:38:00.001+05:30

First of all let me give you the introduction of this group.
NUG nagpur is a group of nagpur users who are passionate about Netbeans platform. :) This gropup focuses mainly on enhancing the skills of using netbeans platform for creating the java projects.

History of Netbeans:

There was a final year student, Jarda Tulach who made netbeans as his final year project. Soon after the successful creation of netbeans project, they made their own company "Netbeans" and started selling it commercially. Later, Sun Microsystem took over Netbeans and Jarda Tulach and his other team members joined Sun Microsystem, which is now known as Oracle. Since then, Netbeans is successfully giving its stable releases and now the current stable version of Netbeans is 6.9.

Why NUG?

We recently had our 1st NUG meet. This meet was held at Beans and Buddies on 23rd sept headed by Tushar Joshi sir.
I really thank Tushar Joshi sir for motivating me and all of us for joining this group.
The thing which motivated me for joining this group is the promise of Netbeans platform. The benefits given to us by Netbeans are awesome. There are lot of benefits which we could have used earlier but we were unaware of those.I really thank Tushar sir fr making us aware about these benefits.
The benefits which i am talking about is :
Netbeans is a successful open source project which is being carried out since 10 years. We have facility to actually see the source code of the Netbeans which is developed by brilliant engineeers. So that's the first benefit, where we get a chance to see the code written by the most experienced and brilliant engineer.
That's not enough! we even have a chance of communicating with all those engineers which helps us improve ourselves and moreover, the addon to all this things is that we can contribute our work in Netbeans by creating a patch or plugin for the Netbeans.
So all these benefits really motivated me for joining this group of brilliant engineers.
The best thing about this group is that NetBeans weekly Newsletter covered our user group this week :) . We are also offered the free 2 days training for learning the Netbeans platform. All the attendees will get Netbeans Certified Associates certificate on attending this training program. And after training we will be given a task and completion of that task would give us Netbeans Certified Engineers certificate.

1st NUG Meet :

our 1st meet was held at Beans and buddies on 23rd sept 2010. There were 10 passionate Netbeans users who attended the meet. It was a wonderful meet where we discussed about the group and next tasks and goals for our group. This group was headed by Tushar sir who told us how to create patch for the netbeans and various programs offered by netbeans.

I really feel proud to be a Netbeans User and suggest all the passionate Netbeans users to come and join this group.
:)

Here are the pics of the first wonderful and successful meet :