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November 2006
Evans Survey : Visual Basic and VB.NET In Steep Decline
Thursday, 30 November 2006 5:09 P GMT-08
An Evans Data Survey is showing a dramatic erosion of use for Visual Basic and VB.NET.
jMaki Now Extends Support To PHP 5
Thursday, 30 November 2006 3:05 P GMT-08
Greg Murray has announced that jMaki is now supporting PHP 5 as well. You now have the choice to script the front ends of your web applications on standard PHP. Your back end services can remain in Java.
NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 5 Available ; New Editor Features Added
Thursday, 30 November 2006 8:31 A GMT-08
The development release of NetBeans 6.0 Milestone 5 is now available. Milestone 5 includes the initial version of the improved Java editor. More...
Plugin Update : Spring (2.0) NetBeans Plugin, Viewlets and Visual Spring Tools
Thursday, 30 November 2006 8:14 A GMT-08
If you work with Spring, things just got easier. Release 0.3 of the Spring NetBeans plugin makes available the Spring Framework (2.0). Another effort is bring a visual development tool to NetBeans. Check it out.
Short Video : Jump into Javascript (Part 2)
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 9:36 P GMT-08
There is a second video part to Jump into Javascript. The second version has Greg Murray, Sun's AJAX Architect, sharing information on client-side scripting with JavaScript and how you can easily design and create AJAX-enabled widgets using jMaki.
Tor Norby : NetBeans and Ruby and Semplice; Nutter: Its "Awesome" [Updated]
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 9:09 P GMT-08
In case you missed it, Tor Norby is showing us a glimpse of a cool screenshot of NetBeans as a jRuby IDE and provided some tantalizing hints. Charles Nutter who is using the NetBeans/Ruby IDE has some great things to say about it- "awesome".
CoolThreads Servers : Tuning Java Applications
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 2:56 P GMT-08
Sun's CoolThreads servers have a nice record of performance-breaking benchmarks. Sun has a number of guidelines for tuning large Java applications.
Four AJAX Tutorials
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 11:17 P GMT-08
After you have read the AJAX Design Strategies, it is time to crank it up with some more in-depth articles - four more.
Article : AJAX Design Strategies
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 9:15 P GMT-08
There is a great article, AJAX Design Strategies, covering six design strategies. Check it out.
Interview with Marc Fleury : Happy About Java, Not So Happy About IBM "Strip-Mining"
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 12:50 P GMT-08
Great interview with Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss and now head of the JBoss division of Red Hat, where he is very enthusiastic about Java under the GPLv2 license. He also talks about IBM's practice of open-source "strip-mining".
Project Tango (WSIT) Open-Sourced
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 9:56 A GMT-08
The last component (WS-TX) of Web Services Interoperability Technologies (known as the WSIT or Project Tango) has been released under an open source license and into the GlassFish community.
Article : NetBeans Syntax Highlighting
Monday, 27 November 2006 5:22 P GMT-08
Antonio is back and writing. He is continuing contructing his Scheme IDE using NetBeans. In the latest chapter, 7. Colorful Editors : The Old, The Good and The Young, he looks at syntax highlighting in NetBeans.
How-To Flash Demo : TopLink, JSF and NetBeans : Building Powerful Apps
Monday, 27 November 2006 10:28 A GMT-08
Check out the latest flash demo which shows how to create apps minus coding.
Human Versus Machine : Kramnik 1/2 Deep Fritz 1/2
Monday, 27 November 2006 1:25 A GMT-08
The machines are taking over. At least with regards to Chess. Check out the latest battle of humans versus machines. World Champion Vladimir Kramnik is in a match against Deep Fritz. Check it out.
New Article : Hyper-Threaded Java - Using Java Concurrency API To Speed Up Tasks
Sunday, 26 November 2006 9:21 P GMT-08
There is a new article, Hyper-Threaded Java, that discusses using the Java Concurrency API to help speed up time-consuming tasks. There is a lot of discussion about this approach. More ...
New Tutorial : Generating Reports and PDFs From a Web Application
Sunday, 26 November 2006 3:28 P GMT-08
A new tutorial show how to integrate the JasperReports framework into a web application that you build using the Sun Java Studio Creator IDE. It shows you how to create a web application that displays and prints information from a travel database.
NetBeans Hacks
Saturday, 25 November 2006 10:08 A GMT-08
Very useful NetBeans hacks you don't want to miss.
Java Studio Creator 2 and NetBeans Visual Web Pack
Thursday, 23 November 2006 9:31 A GMT-08
Winston Prakash has a nice blog entry discussing Sun Java Studio Creator and the NetBeans Visual Web Pack. He answers a number of questions.
New Article : Learning How To Create A Wizard in NetBeans 5.5
Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:47 A GMT-08
he new article, Creating a Wizard Console in NetBeans IDE 5.5, shows you how to create a wizard style console using NetBeans IDE 5.5 GUI builder. Check it out.
Article : NetBeans Plugin Development for Eclipse Developers
Wednesday, 22 November 2006 8:27 A GMT-08
If you are like many Eclipse developers who are just starting to use NetBeans, you may be interested an article, Getting Started with NetBeans IDE and Plugin Module Development for Eclipse Users.
Tick..Tick...Time Is Running Out On Microsoft (J)VM
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:05 P GMT-08
Tick...Tick...Tick...by the end of 2007 Microsoft will stop supporting the Microsoft Java VM (Microsoft VM).
Java Applets, Solar Energy and China
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 6:35 P GMT-08
Some bits on solar energy. This week I discovered a new applet at MIT which simulates Photovoltaic panels. Today, China announced they will build the world's biggest solar energy plant.
NetBeans Profiler and Sun Web Server 7.0
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 4:18 P GMT-08
new article, Integrating NetBeans Profiler with Web Server 7.0, shows how to use the NetBeans Profiler with Sun Web Server 7.0.
F3 Programming for Swing Developers
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 3:35 P GMT-08
Chris Oliver has a new tutorial, Declarative GUI Programming Tutorial (for Swing Programmers. It basically provides a nice tutorial for writing F3 programs.
Extreme (Swing) GUI Makeover : Presentation, Sources and Software
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 1:13 P GMT-08
Scott Violet has made available not only the 103 slides but a zip with the runnable app and the sources. More...