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Leaving Sun

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:03:06 -0500

I have decided to quit Sun Microsystems. I spent amazing 5 years at Sun and I am very grateful for all I've learned with the company. Working on both NetBeans and OpenSolaris adoption was real fun so I leave with very mixed feelings.

I am going back to Java developer business and will be going to Java One with my new employer, so you will find me in the Java One pavilion area if you want to say hi. I wish my Sun colleagues good luck with their new adventures!

P.S. Thanks for all the beans.

Is NetBeans disrupting the PHP IDE market?

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:19:14 -0600

From Zend forums - voice of a customer:

My company bought 3 3-year licenses for Zend Studio earlier this and up until a few weeks ago, there was nothing else on the market that even came close to meeting our requirements. Then Netbeans released 6.5 with PHP support. Right out of the gate, their PHP and JavaScript support is on the whole, so much better and faster than Zend's product, with so many fewer bugs, that despite the fact that we spent $1000 this year investing in Zend's product, and I personally have spent time with Zend's tech support and developers (good guys, very helpful), I am assisting my team in migrating over to use Netbeans for most of our development. There are a few things that Studio does better, but Netbeans is just a much more mature and easy to use product, even this early in their PHP support (I used RC2 first and it was darn good.)

Hmmm :)

Školení na OpenSolaris 2008.11

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:30:53 -0600

Česká OpenSolaris User Group (CZOSUG) pořádá dne 6.12. školení/workshop na novou verzi OpenSolarisu 2008.11. Vstup je zdarma, je však třeba se zaregistrovat. Více informací včetně programu školení a návodu k registraci naleznete na této stránce:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/czosug/events

NetBeans has compile on save!

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:04:08 -0500

Today I downloaded the newest daily build of NetBeans 6.5. To my (pleasant) surprise, the "build project" menu item was grayed out. Yes, that means that NetBeans now compiles your files once you hit the save button. This also means that "Run" action is now mostly instantaneous because all files have already been built while as you worked on them.

To verify that "compile on save" works properly you can open your build directory in the "Files" tab and then right click on the file to see the file size (or open a file manager and watch the file size in the file manager). Make some changes to your sources and then once you save the file check whether the appropriate file size has changed in the build/classes directory. You should see that the file size of the class you edited has change on save because the .class file has been updated.

I was looking for an option to disable "compile on save" and found it in project properties in the "Compile" section. So if you don't like automatic compilation, you can turn it off, although it is enabled by default when you create a new project.

NetBeans Podcast moved over to Geertjan

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:33:18 -0500

NetBeans podcast moved over to Geertjan who will continue producing it together with Lloyd. Updated your RSS feeds, the new location is Geertjan's blog and they have a new iTunes-friendly RSS at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NetBeansPodcast

Many thanks Geertjan for taking over the podcast!

My new role at Sun and a new group blog

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:03:32 -0500

NetBeans has come a long way - it's been quite a ride for me as a NetBeans evangelist. When I joined Sun in 2004 I remember NetBeans having a community with estimated size of approx. 50.000 connected users. Now in mid of 2008 we're at over 500.000 (see the map of NetBeans users - this includes only those who are connected and are not behind restrictive firewalls). If you do the math, this is about 10x growth in less than 4 years - NetBeans became one of the best development environments worldwide for all kinds of programming languages. It's been great to be a part of the success - I have to admit I became quite emotionally connected to NetBeans and had a wonderful time with NetBeans community. Due to all this, it is quite difficult for me to announce that...

I am moving on to the next challenge. My new role at Sun is the role of an OpenSolaris evangelist. I am moving together with my colleagues Brian Leonard, Gregg Sporar and my manager Judith Lilienfeld. I will keep this blog and write from time to time about NetBeans (which has just become my hobby :) - at any case if you want to follow what me and my team are up to, you can subscribe to our new group blog "The Observatory" which is all about OpenSolaris for end users and developers.

P.S. Thanks to all the great people in NetBeans community both outside of Sun and at Sun for all the fun I had with NetBeans - keep rocking!

Groovy / Grails added into standard distribution

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:06:21 -0500

The Groovy/Grails support has been added to the standard distribution of NetBeans. You can test it in the nightly build. Yes, that means that NetBeans 6.5 will ship including Groovy support! :)

Are you coming to Jazoon?

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:37:08 -0500

Jazoon conference will happen in the week of June 23rd - I've been there last year and it was quite nice. We are doing a FREE NetBeans day event on Monday, here's the agenda. Note that I am going to discuss web development during the first presentation in case you'd miss this topic. Although the NetBeans event is free you need to register. Maybe you're undecided and you are not sure if the event is worth attending, in that case you can read a review of this week's NetBeans day in Ankara from an Eclipse user - the event is not only for NetBeans community but also for people who use other IDEs because we discuss many technology-oriented topics such as profiling, JPA, different desktop frameworks, Java ME, JavaFX, etc. :)

Where are NetBeans users?

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:27:42 -0500

If you ever wondered where the NetBeans users are located, here's your chance to find it: NetBeans active user map. This map is not live, but it is quite up-to-date. Great to see users at Mauritius, Hawai and other islands. Time to organize a NetBeans day on one of these islands? With 222 users on Mauritius, there's some potential :) Btw, the map doesn't show total number of NetBeans users because there are many developers in poor countries that are not pernamently connected to the internet and thus we don't count them.

Anyway, nice to see over half a million of connected users of NetBeans on one map. When I started working on NetBeans the number was about 50.000. 10x growth in less than 4 years, not bad!

NetBeans Podcast Episode #43

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Fri, 6 Jun 2008 07:48:47 -0500

NetBeans podcast is back:

NetBeans Podcast Episode #43 (45 min, size: 46.5 MB)

0:00 Why has it been so long since the last podcast?!? And an introduction of Geertjan and Lloyd
4:22 NetBeans IDE 6.1 was released! The multilanguage bits are available, as is the first set of patches.
15:50 NetBeans Day and JavaOne round-up: new and cool stuff, including the Pulse pen from Livescribe and the new browser plugin that is part of Java 6 update 10.
22:14 NetBeans IDE is now in the Ubuntu Universe
23:37 Enhancements to the NetBeans Plugin portal are now live
28:00 Upcoming events: Sun Tech Days Manila/NetBeans Deep Dive and NetBeans Day at Jazoon
30:00 NetBeans Innovator Grants project list
37:20 NetBeans Governance board elections - vote by June 9, 2008
38:09 Plugin of the podcast: JIRA plugin
38:53 RCP of the podcast: Prolog IDE
42:01 NetBeans Puzzler: If you think you know the answer to the new NetBeans Puzzler, send an email to nbpodcast at netbeans dot org. Put "NetBeans Puzzler" in the subject line. We will announce the prize winner on the next podcast - so send in an entry! Disclaimer: The deadline for this podcast's puzzler entries is Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:59 PM Greenwich Mean Time. If more than one correct entry is received then Geertjan will draw one winner at random. Sun employees are not eligible, void where prohibited by law, and we cannot send mail to restricted places. And remember, the questions might be getting harder, but the prizes are getting better. So send in an entry! You might win a prize like Roger Westerlund, shown below with his copy of Rich Client Programming.
46:53 Varun Nischal and Angad Singh are now working on improved XML Schema support

Podcast feedback to: roman dot strobl at sun dot com.

To subscribe via iTunes or similar players, visit http://feeds.feedburner.com/netbeanspod.

NetBeans in Israel

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:23:41 -0500

Greetings from Tel Aviv! Congrats to the local Sun team for organizing second round of the Java Tech Day, I delivered two presentations about NetBeans at the event - it's great to see so much interest in Java and NetBeans here. Even though Israel is not a large country by population (I believe the population is about 7 million), the room for keynotes was completely full - it happened in a place which is usually used for big weddings :). The Java ME development seems to be really active here - I noticed more interest in Java ME than in some other parts of the world.

Btw, If you're wondering where is the next episode of NetBeans podcast - both me and Gregg have been travelling a lot in past few weeks so we couldn't sync up (I confess it's my fault, not Gregg's). I decided to take a vacation in Israel, I'll visit Jerusalem and do some sightseeing, so we'll record it once I get back - during next week. So stay tuned! :)

Foss Camp Prague

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:15:36 -0500

Quick note: I just did a presentation with Arseniy Kuznetsov (NetBeans director) about NetBeans at FOSS camp. It was kind of cool to demo Matisse in front of people like Mark Shuttleworth :) I think the demos were well received and we also had a discussion about getting NetBeans into Main Ubuntu repository (it is now available in Ubuntu Universe). There seems to be a potential for NetBeans to become a really popular IDE among Linux developers - we support many languages they use. The main missing language seems to be Python - and as you probably know Sun hired two Python/Jython developers to work on that - so the future of Python support in NetBeans is very bright.

FOSS Camp was an unconference, actually we were the only presenters who were using a projector (sorry about that but it would be hard to draw features of the IDE on a flipchart :). I wonder how many of the Ubuntu guys noticed I delivered my presentation on OpenSolaris (Gnome looks almost identical on Linux and OpenSolaris). It was nice for a change to visit an unconference, it definitely has a more "human" atmosphere with more 2-way communication than we see at typical conferences. Maybe it's time for NetBeans to organize some unconference as well? Just an idea.

MySQL in Prague / MySQL v Praze!

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:41:35 -0500

Chtěl bych vás všechny pozvat na následující akci, kterou organizujeme spolu s ČVUT v Praze. Vstup je volný pro všechny a bez registrace.

I would like to invite all of you for the following event, that we are organizing with CTU in Prague. The entrance is free for everyone, no registration is neccessary.

Sun Microsystems a České vysoké učení technické v Praze pořádají setkání české vývojářské komunity s pracovníky Sunovské divize MySQL. Setkání proběhne dne 19. května od 18:00 v místnosti 309 na ČVUT v Dejvicích (adresa: Technická 2, Praha 6 - Dejvice, viz mapa). Délka setkání bude cca. dvě a půl hodiny, vstup je volný a není třeba se registrovat. Prezentace proběhnou v anglickém jazyce. Budou přítomni vývojáři produktu MySQL i management, takže budete mít možnost se zeptat na celou škálu dotazů včetně otázek ohledně budoucnosti MySQL či položit dotazy velmi technického rázu.

Abstrakty prezentací:

1. MySQL - the Community, the Product, the Company

An overview of all things MySQL, from a combined technical and business perspective. A short history of MySQL, the company, the product. What the MySQL Community is, and how MySQL works with it. How MySQL is being integrated into Sun.

Speaker bio: Kaj Arnö, VP MySQL, Sun Microsystems

Kaj joined MySQL in 2001, after 14 years as an entrepreneur. He split his company into two, selling the half focusing on MySQL Training to MySQL AB and launching MySQL's training department as VP Training. Since then, Kaj has been VP Professional Services, VP Services, and VP Engineering at MySQL, before assuming his last pure-MySQL role of VP Community Relations in 2005. With MySQL AB being acquired by Sun, Kaj continues to lead the MySQL community efforts, but devotes most of his time to his role as MySQL's Ambassador to Sun. This involves meeting with Sun teams, customers and communities across organisational and geographical boundaries.

2. MySQL Workbench - Native Cross Platform Development

MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by Sun. It is now released on Windows and will be available as a native GUI tool on Linux, Solaris and OS X. After a short overview the tool will be demonstrated in action - followed by a discussion of its architecture and scripting engine.

Speaker bio: Michael G. Zinner, Team Lead, Developer Tools, Database Group, Sun Microsystems

Michael G. Zinner joined MySQL AB in October 2003 as the lead of the MySQL GUI team. Mike is responsible for the design and the development of the graphical MySQL tools including the MySQL Administrator and MySQL Workbench. Prior to joining MySQL AB, Mike was developing database related GUI tools, including a highly acknowledged visual database designer for MySQL, DBDesigner 4.

NetBeans is becoming a great Scala IDE

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:37:45 -0500

Many thanks to Caoyuan for all his great work. His Scala plug-in is starting to look impressive. Caoyuan, I wonder if you have the lastest NetBeans t-shirt and NetBeans USB stick... if not send me an e-mail and I'll ship them to you :)

If you want to give the Scala plug-in a try follow the instructions from NetBeans wiki.

Bundle NetBeans + Glassfish + MySQL

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:21:01 -0500

Someone from the Czech Java community asked me recently if we could create a bundle of NetBeans + Glassfish + MySQL. Why? Because if we provide a pre-configured IDE with an application server and a great database we can make it even easier to get started for web / enterprise developers. And that is a Good Thing^TM. So I'm happy to announce that you can get such bundle from netbeans.org.

NetBeans Day, Community One, Java University, Java One...

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Mon, 5 May 2008 22:22:35 -0500

Greetings from San Francisco! I've been in California for more than a week now, some of my colleagues laughed at me because I managed to get a sun burn here (pun intended ;) I've spent a week south of San Francisco in the bay as well as visited Santa Cruz to join the OpenSolaris summit. I finally got all of the applications I need installed on OpenSolaris and switch to OpenSolaris for my work completely and I also do presentations from OpenSolaris now. I got rid of Windows completely from my laptop, so I share a multi-boot with OpenSolaris and Ubuntu now, it feels good to get rid of all the Microsoft c... I mean software. I'll write a follow up blog entry which will explain how to get the projector to work with Nvidia cards really reliably - it works like charm for me now, but you need to have the right xorg.conf file.

Today was the BIG day - another NetBeans day here in San Francisco. It was a bit smaller than last year because there were many other events going on in parallel. We had a celebrity appearance from Jonathan Schwartz, our dearest CEO. Also the demos looked pretty cool, I especially enjoyed Brian Leonard's demo of the Jasper Reports plug-in (which is currently the number one plug-in on the plug-in portal). I myself demoed the new PHP support which is shaping up nicely - preview is available from netbeans.org. I also wrote recently an article about NetBeans 6.1 so go check it out if you want to know what's new in NetBeans 6.1. We had lots of content, so I hope attendees enjoyed the day!

I am getting sleep deprived - way too much stuff going on right now and it's amazing how many familiar faces I meet all the time in the Moscone center. So many JUG leaders, Java Champions, Sun colleagues, friends and other known people are here - Java One is a good place to meet many people from the community (even though I prefer community-driven conferences as an attendee).

We also did an event in Second Life today which was very unusual - people could IM their NetBeans-related questions and I would answer them using an audio feed, without getting audio feedback from the audience. Quite a bizzare way of presenting but also quite fun. In the evening me, Gregg and David did a 3-hour presentation about NetBeans at Java University. The A-V guys told us we've been the most entertaining instructors during the day. I feel very proud to be a part of our evangelism team, we're having way too much fun (and we work hard: we helped to grow the NetBeans community by 900% in size in last 3.5 years - what a progress!).

Anyway time to go to sleep... tune in to tomorrow's keynotes from Java One, they should be broadcasted online, to get some feel for the Java vibe from Java One. Good night.

Screencast: New JavaScript editor in NetBeans 6.1

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:23:39 -0500

NetBeans IDE 6.1 contains a completely new JavaScript editor which provides many advanced editing capabilities such as intelligent code completion, mark occurences, rename refactoring, on-fly analysis of JavaScript libraries, support for many Ajax frameworks and more. Watch this screencast to discover the new and exciting JavaScript-related features. Length of the demo: ~6 minutes.

Click on the image to play the screencast

NetBeans 6.1 has been released!

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:43:40 -0500

Hurray! You can get NetBeans 6.1 from netbeans.org. Also notice that there is a new PHP NetBeans IDE available (only as early access).

Where did my plug-ins go?

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:15:41 -0500

The final release of NetBeans 6.1 will provide about 50 stable and well tested plug-ins on the stable and beta update centers (depending on which version of NetBeans you install, it can be more or less). However I noticed that some important plug-ins are missing. For example if you want to get the Groovy / Grails plug-ins, you won't find them in default installation. So if you want to have access to more plug-ins in your 6.1 release (or in other releases, betas, etc.), you can add a development update center to your IDE. Note that these plug-ins do not go through the same QA process as the plug-ins on the stable and beta update centers, so use this at your own risk. However the Groovy / Grails plug-ins are probably worth a little risk :)

To install the development update center to your NetBeans installation go to Tools | Plug-ins | Settings | Add update center and specify this URL:

http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/javadoc-nbms/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/updates.xml.gz

That's it, from now on you get access to 140+ plug-ins. You can disable the daily update center easily using the checkbox if you make sure you install only tested plug-ins. In case you want to get even more plug-ins, you can also install the plug-in portal update center:

http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=1616

Click on "Reload catalog" to refresh the available plug-ins and you should see 300+ plug-ins being now available for you. Of course these plug-ins also vary in quality so be cautious. If this is not enough for you :) there are additional community update centers you can install. See Geertjan's blog for details.

Installing NetBeans on OpenSolaris

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:50:30 -0500

Installation experience of NetBeans on OpenSolaris over network is similar to the experience on Ubuntu. The nice thing is that OpenSolaris repository contains the full version of the IDE, not just the stripped-down Java version. I tried installing NetBeans:

roman@opensolaris:~# pkg install netbeans

pkg: no package matching 'netbeans' could be found in current catalog
suggest relaxing pattern, refreshing and/or examining catalogs
pkg: install failed: Unable to assemble image plan

The problem is that the repository has just been updated (NetBeans has been added very recently) so I need to refresh the repository first:

roman@opensolaris:~# pkg refresh

Then I could run:

pkgroman@opensolaris:~# pkg install netbeans
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                  17/17   5420/5420 339.92/339.92

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Install Phase                              6393/6393

To verify the installation you can run:

roman@opensolaris:~# pkg list netbeans
NAME (AUTHORITY) VERSION STATE UFIX
netbeans 6.0.1-0.86 installed ----

To find out where NetBeans got installed I ran:

roman@opensolaris:~# pkg search netbeans
INDEX      ACTION    VALUE                     PACKAGE
basename   dir       usr/netbeans/ide8/docs/org/netbeans pkg:/SUNWlibnb-ide8@6.0.1-0.86
basename   dir       usr/netbeans/enterprise4/ant/sources/org/netbeans pkg:/SUNWlibnb-enterprise4@6.0.1-0.86
basename   file      usr/netbeans/bin/netbeans pkg:/SUNWnetbeans-ide@6.0.1-0.86
basename   dir       usr/netbeans/java1/sources/org/netbeans pkg:/SUNWlibnb-java1@6.0.1-0.86

So now I could run NetBeans by calling:

roman@opensolaris:~# /usr/netbeans/bin/netbeans

My next wish is that we would fix the UI of NetBeans on Solaris. The toolbars look really broken and default editor font should really be monospace :(

Where is NetBeans 6.1?

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:33:26 -0500

There is a small delay with releasing 6.1 - expect it coming very soon (today or on Monday). As usual, quality is more important than meeting the exact release date ;)

OpenSolaris Review

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:04:06 -0500

I am currently using the RC version of OpenSolaris (the new Ubuntu-like distribution of Solaris) on my laptop at work. It still needs some work to match usability of Ubuntu but the progress the Solaris guys have made is staggering. A year ago I couldn't install Solaris at all on my machine and today it runs quite well, although it was quite a challenge to get the network driver to run properly. The performance is pretty good, much better than e.g. Windows Vista and in some cases better than Linux.

If you want to find out about the new release a very balanced review has been written at Phoronix:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=solaris_200805&num=1

The RC2 image can be downloaded here. Final release is coming very soon!

Performance improvements in NetBeans 6.1

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:45:19 -0500

NetBeans 6.1 has much better performance than 6.0 or 6.0.1. A lot of work has been done to make this happen. If you meet anyone from the performance team please buy them a glass of beer (or a jug :). Here are some results of the tests:

\* First startup (cold startup) is about 20% faster over 6.0 with no projects opened
\* First startup (cold startup) is about 40% faster over 6.0 with several projects opened
\* Post-startup work has been reduced by ~50%

The startup speed is still slower than Eclipse's but we are getting close.

What's probably even more interesting is the memory consumption improvements (with 6.0 being worse than Eclipse and 6.1 being better than Eclipse in the basic scenarios):

	Full NB 6.1	NB 6.0	Eclipse 3.3
After startup & warmup	87 MB	140 MB	100 MB
After create, edit, build, run	130 MB	172 MB	133 MB

Other performance improvements include:

I/O improvements
- File systems optimizations – e.g. 40% faster refresh
- Less disk touches, e.g. expanding a package on network is about 40% faster
• Visual Web
- Hunt on memory leaks
- Opening pages, adding a table component ~50% faster
• Java editor
- Incremental method parsing
- Faster queries processing for navigator
• JSP editor
- Fixed parser and caching, less disk touches

Do you share the same experience that performance of 6.1 has improved over 6.0?

Java and NetBeans on Ubuntu 8.04

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:22:54 -0500

I have upgraded my Ubuntu installation to 8.04 (release candidate). Previously Ubuntu has been using GCJ as the default Java, which had many problems. On 8.04 when I tried:

java -version

I got:

java version "1.6.0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)

Very cool. Now what about NetBeans? I tried:

netbeans

And the response was:

The program 'netbeans' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install netbeans

So I tried:

sudo apt-get install netbeans

In previous versions of Ubuntu I would have to go install NetBeans manually but this time a little miracle happened:

[sudo] password for roman:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
ant ant-optional javahelp2 junit junit4 libappframework-java libapr1
libaprutil1 libbeansbinding-java libcommons-beanutils-java
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And then running:

netbeans

opened version 6.0.1 of my favorite IDE (the Java-only version of it) :)

Note that NetBeans is in the Universe which needs to be checked in the package manager. I didn't have to do this because I already got downloaded some packages from the Universe before. Also, the packages are split into pieces - there is one package for the platform, one for the beans binding, etc.

Opening the package manager and searching for NetBeans yields to:

Getting Java and NetBeans used to be complicated on Ubuntu in the past but now both packages are really well integrated and easily accessible.

NetBeans Grant: winning projects announced

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:10:56 -0500

I've been getting lots of questions about the grant projects winner selection from various folks from NetBeans community. I've also heard some complaints about why does it take so long. The reason why it took so long to choose the projects was that we got much more submissions than we expected (it was close to 200). I've seen many discussions about the projects choices on the dream team alias (the Dream Team was in charge of choosing the winning projects - so non-Sun people make these choices).

So finally the winning projects have been announced at:

http://www.netbeans.org/grant

Congratulations to the winners!

Large projects

CashForward (Bill Snyder)
Cube°n (Anuradha Gunasekara)
JavaSpaces (Magdalena Dukielska)
IvyBeans (Laurent Forêt)
NB Project (Alessandro Dourado)
NB-XUL (Aditya Kumar Sharma)
NetBeans Spot/Sun SPOT Plugin
NbPython (Allan Davis)
Scala Support (Caoyuan Deng)
Visual JavaFX (Adam Kędziora)

Small projects

CoffeeDregs (Kees Huizing)
JSpree (ManiKanta G)
Netbeans Update Service (Mark Ashworth)
MONOH (Carlos Oliveira)
Numbered Bookmarks (M.A.S. Jayasundara)
PDFViewer (Steve Tzou)
PL/SQL Editor (Alexandre Soumbatov)
Project Darkstar Tools and Mobility Support (Karel Herink)
Regular Expressions Module (Angad Singh)
Resource Bundle Editor (Denis Stepanov)

Time to vote

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:20:28 -0500

Is NetBeans 6.1 ready for release? Vote here.

Have you already downloaded NetBeans 6.1 RC1?

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:13:09 -0500

NetBeans 6.1 is coming soon - it is now available as first release candidate. So go get it. I've been using it for demos during our road trip in Poland (we have driven about 1000 km by car - I am in Wroclaw now :) and it works quite well. The only problem I noticed is that the Options window doesn't show the preview for fonts & colors changes... according to my coleague from QE this bug is known. Hmm I wonder if this will work in the final version? :)

NetBeans poetry site uncovered

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 05:16:54 -0500

This is just too good to be true - Roman Stanek uncovered in his blog the NetBeans Early Avant-Guard Poetry Site. Read more in Roman's blog. The original poetry page is mirrored over here.

Gregg Sporar Tried to Break My Disk Drive!

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:55:43 -0500

Earlier today I was talking on the phone with my buddy Gregg Sporar. Unlike usual I was using Windows Vista (due to a podcast - I still can't get audio mixing to work well on Ubuntu - I need to record my Skype session using Audacity - if you know how to set this up please let me know, thanks). Gregg was telling me a really funny story and I was laughing out so hard that I slammed several times with both my hands on the table. Suddenly a Sony VAIO popup dialog came up:

It reminds me of the dialog I get when I get angry that my code won't work and press the Shift key five times or more and Windows thinks I have a hard time using the keyboard and I need some assistance... only this one is so much fancier :)

Get your Java gear

roman.strobl@sun.com (Roman Strobl) — Sat, 5 Apr 2008 03:31:30 -0500

I have been asked more than 100 times how to get a Java / Sun t-shirt, bag, shirt, USB or other things. So I am delighted to let you know that Sun has launched an online shop where you can buy various Sun / Java goodies including flashlights, backpacks... the choice is quite broad!

Visit: http://sunwear.sun.com/