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November 2008 Blog Posts (5)
Mule, Codetown, Success
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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
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: Added by Michael Levin on November 16, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments
LA JUG looking for presentations
Added by Michael Levin on November 16, 2008 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment
nbPython a go!
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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