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May 2008
Building NetBeans Extensions for OpenOffice & New Tools for OpenOffice Collaboration
Saturday, 31 May 2008 12:52 P GMT-08
NetBeans has a nice plugin for building extensions for OpenOffice. Learn how to build extensions by going through the JavaOne Hands-On-Lab. Also two new tools- O3Spaces looks like SharePoint and StarOffice 8 Server offers bulk PDF conversion. More..
Virtualization : xVM VirtualBox on MacOS X Running OpenSolaris 2008.05 Guest + JDK 6u10 (Pics)
Friday, 30 May 2008 1:32 A GMT-08
Loaded VirtualBox on MacOS X. It now runs in 1440x900. Loaded OpenSolaris 2008.05 as a guest, then Java SE 6 update 10 and NetBeans 6.1. This mean I can do two things - run Java SE 6u10 and run OpenOffice SDK and develop OpenOffice extensions.
Bits : JavaOne 2008 Presentations, ApacheCon Europe Presentations, JavaFX Script, MySQL
Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:46 P GMT-08
There are four interesting bits. First, JavaOne 2008 presentations are becoming available. Second, there is a nice ApacheCon talk on Apache 3.0. Third, JavaFX Script and translucent windows. Finally check out Solaris 10/MySQL best practices. More...
Presentation : Java API for RESTful Web Services(JAX-RS) JavaOne Presentation & Demo
Monday, 26 May 2008 9:50 A GMT-08
The presentation on JAX-RS given at JavaOne 2008 is available. Also available is the demo. I've also found some resources on the topic available (video, tutorials). More....
Bits : OpenGL Pack (Plugins), New Java Phone - LG Vu
Monday, 26 May 2008 1:40 A GMT-08
Two bits - first, there is a really nice OpenGL Pack which provides an easy to use OpenGL development environment. Second, there is a very interesting new Java phone, LG Vu. More....
Tutorial : NetBeans Visual Library
Saturday, 24 May 2008 1:31 P GMT-08
Check out the new tutorial showing you how to use the NetBeans Visual Library. More.....
NetBeans Prolog IDE : A How-To-Create and A Prolog IDE
Friday, 23 May 2008 11:52 P GMT-08
A NetBeans community member has done a nice job creating a Prolog IDE. They show you how they do it....and more.
Tutorial : Getting Started with RESTful Web Services and Using Google Map
Friday, 23 May 2008 7:07 A GMT-08
Final example of using RESTful web services and in this case using Google Maps with the new RESTful feature in NetBeans 6.1. More....
Tutorial : Consuming Zillow RESTful Web Services Using NetBeans 6.1
Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:16 P GMT-08
Another nice tutorial showing how to use NetBeans 6.1 RESTful web services support by consuming Zillow services. More....
Tutorial : Building A Del.icio.us Client With NetBeans 6.1 RESTful Web Services Features
Thursday, 22 May 2008 9:50 P GMT-08
New tutorial on building a del.icio.us client using NetBeans 6.1 features. It's fast, it's clean, quick and available for other web services like Flickr and Amazon. More...
NetBeans As PHP IDE : Resources and New Tutorials and More Coolthreads
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 9:05 P GMT-08
There are some nice new tutorials and resources for PHP development in NetBeans. More....
Bits : Java SE 6 Update 10 new build,Developing Java on Solaris,OpenOffice Presentation Extension
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 12:43 P GMT-08
Three bits on the new Java SE 6 update 10 build, the new OpenOffice 3 presentation console and developing Java apps on Solaris.
Bits : Ask-the-Experts about jRuby, follow-up on Coolthreads
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 11:47 A GMT-08
Two bits - one is that you have a few days to get your questions to the experts on jRuby on NetBeans in the Ask-The-Experts page. Second is a follow-up on two interesting links related ot Coolthreads systems.
How-To : New (Java SE Update 10) Draggable Applet
Saturday, 17 May 2008 12:27 A GMT-08
There is a lot of interest in Java SE 6 Update 10 and specifically how to create a draggable applet. SDN had a nice pointer to this experimental feature of pulling an applet out of the browser and onto the desktop to become a desktop app.
A Java Green Moment : Consolidation, CoolThreads Servers and Energy
Friday, 16 May 2008 9:53 P GMT-08
Java apps running on a server take energy. My favorite servers are not quad-core procs - they are 8 core procs (with 64 hardware threads) and they are built to save energy. Bingo. The push to virtualization is about saving energy and money. More...
JavaOne 2008 : General Session, Java Minute, Interviews & Duke Award (All Videos)
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 5:41 P GMT-08
So, you missed JavaOne 2008, but you still wish you could have been there. There is a way. There are a large number of videos covering a lot of territory. More....
JavaOne 2008 : Killer Java App and How To Build One
Monday, 12 May 2008 10:41 P GMT-08
One of the cool apps showed at JavaOne 2008 is blueMarine. There is a nice video you can see which shows off blueMarine - and there are lots of features to show. The author, Fabrizio Giudici shows you the insides of his app. More...
JavaOne 2008 : Hands-On-Labs Now Available, General Sessions
Monday, 12 May 2008 7:15 P GMT-08
If you missed JavaOne 2008 - the first aspects of the conference are now being made available. The Hands-On-Labs are also available. You can load them on your laptops and try them out. Also General Sessions are available for viewing. More...
JavaOne 2008 : NetBeans As A PHP IDE. As A Scala IDE.
Sunday, 11 May 2008 2:53 P GMT-08
NetBeans has powered ahead in a number of areas. The latest was the arrival of NetBeans 6.1 with a number of new features. One area of particular interest to Web 2.0 types - is support for PHP. In addition, it is gaining really nice Scala support.
JavaOne 2008 : The Killer-App - A Java Pen
Saturday, 10 May 2008 9:29 A GMT-08
Livescribe has reinvented the pen. It is very cool and full of potential. I got one of them and I am intrigued and I'm naming it - my Java Gadget of the Year. More....
JavaOne 2008 : Monitoring Your Enterprise Easily
Thursday, 8 May 2008 1:34 P GMT-08
One of the most interesting discoveries I made at JavaOne was a performance and monitoring tool called Jennifer. More...
JavaOne 2008 : Feature-On-Demand Applications, Rich Internet Applications
Thursday, 8 May 2008 9:01 A GMT-08
Two excellent Bird-of-a-feather last night. One on feature-on-demand applications and the other on rich internet applications.
JavaOne 2008 : Hands-On-Labs, NetBeans Profiler, jMaki and more.
Thursday, 8 May 2008 7:53 A GMT-08
I've been helping proctor the hands-on-labs, if you don't know about them - you should. They are wealth of information in tutorial form that you can download and try out. More....
JavaOne 2008 : Amazon's EC2 Gets OpenSolaris
Wednesday, 7 May 2008 11:02 A GMT-08
Now you can use OpenSolaris on Amazons Elastic Cloud (EC2). More...
JavaOne 2008 : Applets on Steroids are *really* back and JavaFX Script Is Looking Good
Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:24 P GMT-08
Applets are *really* back. Java SE 6 Update 10 looks to put applets back on top in a serious way. The first day of JavaOne is behind us and JavaFX Script looks great.