Bits : NetBeans @ Boeing and a New Woodstock Components Lab
posted Thursday, 26 July 2007
 NetBeans and Boeing. My pal, Tim Boudreau has written a nice piece on NetBeans use in a Boeing project. I worked at Boeing for many years, have lots of friends there and found it interesting. The article interviews Tom Wheeler. Tom has ported an application that analyses mass properties of aircraft for Boeing. The article discusses the application but also reveals something that I have said for a long time - the Java rich client platform that integrates best with Swing, Java 2D and Java 3D will win mindshare in the Java community. You can read about it here.
JSF and Woodstock Components. As well, Sang Shin, as writen a new JavaPassion lab which highlights how to use JavaServer Faces and the new Woodstock comonponents. You can find that here. You can also learn more about Woodstock here.
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| What I'm Seeing in China. I am now in Hong Kong reflecting on some of my time in Yunnan Province. I should start by saying that I have never been treated with such kindness and patience as I was there. My limited vocabulary and pronunciation of the tones in Chinese leave alot for improvement. Everybody was patient ... waiting, waiting and waiting as a pieced together a simple sentence in Mandarin (which was | usually wrong). The funny thing is that if you know a little bit of a language you do have a shot of at least understanding what's going on ... understanding was generally not the problem- rather speaking was. It rained the last few days in Kunming - I mean rained - flooding was throughout the city. Even at the airport there was about 3 to 5 inches of water on the road in front of the airport. Half a day was spent walking in an off-the- main road neighborhood - visited a seamstress/tailor, noodle shop, marketplace, jeweler, flower and bird market and tons of small shops along the way. It was a pleasant half day - getting a feel for people's lives in this city. Food I ate was fresh - I mean really | 
On a country road not far from Kunming: When in doubt water buffalos have right-of-way | nice and fresh. No refrigeration time as far as I can see - farm to market. I probably ate the best foods I have ever eaten. When I say Hong Kong ... I really mean Hong Kong/Kowloon. I am staying Kowloon. In Hong Kong the seafood was simply the best. The various plates in Kunming, Jinhong and Shenzhen were pretty amazing. In Kunming I ate a number of plates of mushroom delicacies that I was told I would never be able to find in the US. I can tell you they were really delicious. In Jinhong there was this
Somwhere in Kunming | interesting blend of Thai and Chinese foods and in Shenzhen I had great seafood and also Malaysian foods that were very remarkable. On my last day in Kunming we went to a restaurant that was called "Moslem Restaurant". More great food - but one very interesting dish was Coconut Rice. It was rice cooked with coconut and that had coconut slice that the rice rested on (by the way in Jinhong I had Pineapple Rice). Last night in Kowloon which is really where I am staying ( a district called Tsim Thsa Tsui) I went to a restaurant called Chuk Yuen Seafood Restaurant and had this relatively indescribable forms of scallops prepared - one with garlic and one with black beans. This was a form of food heaven.
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