
Gosling's South Park-style character is really cool. It's been around for coupla years but now I really want them done for my family and friends. Does anyone have software (or service) that can generate it from photos? ;-)
The technical sessions detailing new features of NetBeans were a little dry. That probably has to do with the fact that I've been using the tool for about 3 years now, and had attended all the previous NetBeans Days, so the steep ramp up from mediocrity to delight is beginning to taper off. OK, so NetBeans 6 has a new, improved editor, and Mobility support is better, and Matisse (the GUI builder) has been upgraded too. Maybe I am easy to please but the editor was good enough for me from 5.0 to 5.5, so I'll try to see if I can notice the improvement next week when I get back (and have some time). Mobility support was already best in class, so I will also have to deep-dive into it to understand how much it is going to help me in future projects. I did a Swing frontend 6 months ago requiring a widget count of 200+, with dynamic (color & text changing) buttons etc. and Matisse really ROCKS! So am eager to find about this out more as well. I was in the Mobility track so I missed that preso.

As far as NetBeans 6 is concerned, I think the biggest new feature is scripting support. I know JRuby and JavaScript come out of the box but am curious to see if there are other plug-ins for others like Groovy (which is beginning to interest me). For some time, I've deliberately stayed away from developing Web apps (sounds crazy huh?) and focused on Java ME (CDC, CLDC and JavaCard) Swing, JMX and other non-web Java EE technologies because I wanted more efficient means of building relatively simple web apps. Scripting is clearly the answer, and now that the tools support it ... time to revisit.


2-1/2 hours to commute from Moscone to central San Jose! I lived in the bay area for 10 years so I am positive I can drive down in 1-1/2 hours even in bad traffic. Until public transport is improved (or gas prices raised again), we are in for a much warmer future.

I've leave you with my T-shirt count of 3:
- OpenSolaris
- Community One
- NetBeans 6
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Geertjan has written a Netbeans plugin for Groovy.
article 1
article 2
etc
and
plugin page
Jez
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