Check out the interviews with Tom Marble, Sun's OpenJDK Ambassador and Chet Haase, Sun's Client Architect. Also I am starting to dwell on blog entry 1000 and where the blog is going. Finally, Sun did great this quarter.... More...
A really nice set of resources or guide for building FireFox extensions is out and available and if you are writing FaceBook extensions in Java - you might want to look at some new resources.
There is a nice new write-up on a NetBeans rich client Platform application at Boeing. Also a new JavaPassion hands-on lab showing how to use JSF and Woodstock components.
A new and major release of JavaFX Script happened. Lots of new items released including new plugins, an incubator compiler project, new demos and more...
Some new bits. Two screencasts - the first showing jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget being used with Rails. Second one is a screencast of NetBeans RCP app, BlueMarine and slides. Also a free RCP chapter. More...
Two bits : a new screencast showing how easy it is to build an OpenOffice extension using NetBeans (via an OpenOffice API plugin) to extend OpenOffice/StarOffice. Also a tutorial showing how to quickly build Swing-based desktop database apps. More..
Thinking back on how far NetBeans has come, on some recent blogs by developers and how speed increases have made it more even attractive. Most of all how innovation is so intoxicating - and so important. More...