November 2008 Blog Posts (5)

Mule, Codetown, Success

Last night's Mule talk was great. Thanks, Zemian. And, thanks to Signature Consultants for providing pizza and drinks.



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In January, we have Carol McDonald of Sun coming with a great talk. Details in the Events… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 21, 2008 at 10:06am — 1 Comment

FYI -- the final version of NetBeans 6.5 was released this morning

FYI... The NetBeans team has released the final version of NetBeans 6.5. this morning... lots of new features...

Introduction to NetBeans IDE 6.5

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/nb65-intro-screencast.html

In this screencast, Sridhar Reddy shows new Java developers NetBeans IDE 6.5 editor features and gives a short introduction on how to edit, compile… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 19, 2008 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Øredev features Josh Marinacci on JavaFX

Malmo, Sweden: Josh Marinacci will present JavaFX at Øredev Nov 17-21.

Added by Michael Levin on November 16, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

LA JUG looking for presentations

The Los Angeles JUG is looking for presenters. They have a nice way of presenting their wish-list.

Added by Michael Levin on November 16, 2008 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

nbPython a go!

News Flash: (from Alley Davis of www.cajunjug.org)



http://codesnakes.blogspot.com/2008/11/python-in-netbeans-is-go.html



Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Python in Netbeans is a go!!!!



After a 6 months of development. nbPython has been given the green light to be release as the official python build for Netbeans. The EA release will be… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 13, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

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