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March 2007
NetBeans 6.0 (M8) Available : Profiler, UML Modeling Now Standard Part of IDE
Thursday, 29 March 2007 6:45 P GMT-08
NetBeans 6.0 raises the bar substantially - a profiler and UML modeling is now standard with NetBeans 6.0. There are many more features added in the latest milestone.
NetBeans : Ruby Development, Groovy Rising & RoR v Grails Benchmarks
Thursday, 22 March 2007 4:55 P GMT-08
Lots of cool things happening in the NetBeans world like having just taken the Jolt award for Development Environment. Two projects of interest - Ruby Support in NetBeans and a newer Groovy effort. Also chekc out RoR v Grails benchmarks. More...
Jolt Awards : NetBeans IDE 5.5 Wins Development Environment Award
Thursday, 22 March 2007 1:39 P GMT-08
NetBeans did wonderfully at the Jolt Awards. NetBeans IDE 5.5 won the Jolt Award for Development Environment. The NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 and NetBeans Mobility Pack also won Productivity awards.
NetBeans Community : Here Comes A Visual Database Explorer
Monday, 19 March 2007 10:51 A GMT-08
Toni Epple has a nice write-up on some work he has done at creating a Visual Database Explorer. More...
LISP, Scheme and Java - and oh yeah GroovyRules
Monday, 19 March 2007 12:14 A GMT-08
LISP Machines have more or less disappeared from view - but LISP hasn't. I've been spending time with this old friend. More....
Grails Bits : 0.4.2 Available, Grails Podcast #30, Groovy & Identity Manager
Sunday, 11 March 2007 10:15 P GMT-08
Three bits : 0.4.2 is out, a new podcast and some work integrating Groovy with Sun Identity Manager. More....
Cutting Edge : Building Ruby Apps with Derby and NetBeans
Sunday, 11 March 2007 9:16 P GMT-08
There is a new tutorial highlighting NetBeans 6.0 M7 new Ruby features and using Derby to build applications. More...
Cutting Edge : AB5k, Java Desklets
Saturday, 10 March 2007 12:58 P GMT-08
Developers hoping for cross-platform Java widgets now have an option- AB5k. Joshua Marinacci and Robert Cooper have made available a Java Widget System for the desktop. So get rid of the ball-and-chain of Dashboard and start building on AB5k. More...
Article : Migrating Your Application to JavaDB
Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:21 P GMT-08
There is a new article which you take a web application that was developed using the Pointbase database and migrate it to use Java DB. More...
Grails on NetBeans : A Project In The Making
Tuesday, 6 March 2007 1:02 A GMT-08
Geertjan has Grails on his mind and he is setting his sights on getting Grails into NetBeans. More...
Two Flash Demos : NetBeans + jRuby + Rails
Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:36 A GMT-08
There has been a flood of overwhelmingly positive comments from the Ruby community on what NetBeans is doing with Ruby. Two new flash demos from Roman Strobl offer a great view of why Ruby developers are excited. More...
Flash Demo : Matisse++ ?
Monday, 5 March 2007 11:57 P GMT-08
A nice new flash demo - is it Matisse++ ? Regardless, you can see where Swing and Matisse are going. More....
Groovy/Grails Avalanche : 22 hours = groovy.blogs(); New Podcasts, New Articles, Splashcasts, etc
Saturday, 3 March 2007 4:17 P GMT-08
There is a ton of Grails news. Glen Smith took 22 hours to build the blog aggregator, groovy.blogs() which is online and source code available. There are new podcasts, presentations, articles, conferences and user groups.
Visual Web Pack 5.5 : Patch Available (English Language Version)
Saturday, 3 March 2007 11:35 A GMT-08
No this is not a patch for English, rather a patch for bugs in the English version of the Visual Web Pack 5.5. More...
Bits : Learning Swing, NetBeans Day SF 2007, Ruby IDE Comparison, JES 5 and Building Derby
Thursday, 1 March 2007 7:16 P GMT-08
Lots of new bits - a new Java tutorial on learning Swing using NetBeans is out, Java Enterprise System 5 is available, an article on building Derby using NetBeans, Rube IDE comparison chart and it's time again - register now for NetBeans Day SF 2007.