NBCD Weekly Newsletter #7

Spotlight of the Week

Yet again, we didn't have anyone to give spotlight to, if you feel you're the one that should get spotlight. Then, do join us, contribute and who knows your contributions could give you spotlight too!

Have a look at people who got spotlight on this blog-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/commdocs-spotlights


Latest docs

Tutorials

Paulo Canedo

Sep 26 | Criando um CRUD em JSF e Ajax com o NetBeans 6.5 Beta

Sep 24 | Creating a CRUD with JSF and Ajax using NetBeans 6.5 Beta

Special News

Get Inspired, Start Writing...
Get to know about articles written by James and Amit. Also, have a look at the interviews featuring both of them.

Program Update..
Check out Varun's blog for the latest about our program- Statistics, Blog Updates, Team Expansion, etc.


Blog da docs

This section features the blog entries of the docs contributed by the topmost contributors featured, in the 4th edition of the weekly.

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink

01 | Using the Ouput Window in NetBeans

Luis Enrique Funes

02 | Localización de Aplicaciones Basadas en Netbeans Platform como Plugins

Dream Team Docs

July 2008

Aristides, Kristian and Wade made a comeback by contributing lot of docs in the month of July, and there were tutorials, tips and tricks!

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Varun Nischal

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July 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

After going through docs last year, lets have a look what all the highly skilled NetBeans users have done this year :)

We are going to see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of July, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Long time back, in September 2007 by Wade Chandler. Surprising, well they were getting ready for the major role they played this year, NetBeans Innovator Grants! Ofcourse, you will find them anyhow on the mailing lists.

Comeback Month
Aristides Villarreal Bravo made a comeback, and he was back with a bang! Kristian Rink has been contributing since last year, and he was back as a new NetBeans Dream Team Member. Also, Wade Chandler made a comeback too!

Trivia

This month, our program had 21 contributions, record breaking month. Also, this was the first time, when we saw many Dream Team members contributed docs, instead of one.

Tips and Tricks

Wade Chandler

July 22

Easily Create JavaBean Properties using Code Templates

Kristian Rink

July 30

Auto-build maven2 projects in the correct order

Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Jul 03

Tutorial de NetBeans Visual Library en Español

Jul 13

Tutorial de Mercurial

Jul 26

Usando API de persistencia Java con una aplicación Visual Web Pack

Thank you, Aristides, Kristian and Wade!

Localización de Aplicaciones Basadas en Netbeans Platform como Plugins

Luis Enrique Funes, was also featured in our Weekly Newsletter #4, contributed for the first time, and he did it in style by translating Tonny Kohar's recent contribution- NetBeans Platform Localization as Plugins.

Thanks, Luis!

Using the output window in NetBeans

Hubert A. Klein Ikkink was featured in our Weekly Newsletter #4, and we will see the documentation he contributed during that week.

Tips and Tricks

So, how to make use of the Output Window in NetBeans, here are few tips and tricks to make your life easy.

01 | Clear the Output Window

02 | Filter Text


03 | Save the Contents

Thanks, Hubert!

Featured Articles and Interviews

Hello all,

As you know being a manager of this program, James Branam has been interviewed, delivered a presentation, as well as writing articles from time-to-time, which were featured in NetBeans Zone, NetBeans.org and NetBeans Podcast..

Not to forget.. Amit Kumar Saha, who wrote an article, which also features an Interview of James Branam by the author for Linux For You and represented our program at Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad (29th Feb, 2008)

Here's the list-

Interviews

• The NetBeans Community Docs Program Wants You
  
• NetBeans Community Docs for the Community, by the Community
  
• NetBeans Podcast Episode #46
  

Articles

• Building a Docs Community
• 200 Contributions (and Counting!)

Presentations

• Sun Tech Days- Russia ... India

Get Inspired, Start Writing...

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #6

Spotlight of the Week

Yet again, we didn't have anyone to give spotlight to, if you feel you're the one that should get spotlight. Then, do join us, contribute and who knows your contributions could give you spotlight too!

Have a look at people who got spotlight on this blog-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/commdocs-spotlights


Latest docs

Many bloggers were invited and are in progress of writing it, they would soon be out with their documentations. Also, nobody contributed last week... So, please do join us and contribute!


Special News

Code For Freedom...
Contest that changed lives of so many Indian students, finally arrives...Here's Amit Kumar Saha announcing on his blog!

Software Freedom Day..
So many people around the world celebrated the birthday of Free and Open Source Software, did you write any tutorial, tips & tricks, faq's, screencasts? Do let us know!

NetBeans Podcast Episode #46..
James Branam, NetBeans Community Docs Manager was recently interviewed by Llyod for NetBeans Podcast!

Interesting Article at Dzone..
Varun Nischal recently wrote an article for NetBeans Zone, which had an interesting title, "Implementing Dynamic Binding in a Different Way.."


Blog da docs

This section features the blog entries of the docs contributed by the topmost contributors featured, in the 3rd edition of the weekly.

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

01 | Administrando Freehg desde NetBeans

Diego E. Silva L.

02 | Para qué usar EJB

Dream Team Docs

Sep 2007

Wade Chandler was the only Dream Team Member to contribute docs in the month of September, and he contributed a Tips and Tricks!

This edition was brought to you by;
Varun Nischal

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DT Docs- Sep 2007

Today,

We would see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of September, 2007!

Where's August?
There were no documentations created during this month by NetBeans Dream Team.


Not, to forget...
The first ever contribution was made by NetBeans Dream Team Member.

Trivia

This month, our program had 10 contributions, (2nd highest that year). Also, Wade Chandler contributed for the first time. He became the 3rd Dreamer to contribute to our program.

Tips and Tricks

Wade Chandler

September 03

How to run a NetBeans project in an operating system console window

Wade, thank you so much!

Para qué usar EJB

Diego, also contributed another documentation in Spanish. He focused on Enterprise Java Beans and Java Class Library.

Someone has rightly said, "A picture is worth a thousand words". That's why we post some screen shots here, so as to invoke some interest in you. Then, you can visit the complete documentation at NetBeans Community Docs.

Fig 1- Adding a Class Library


Fig 2- Creating an empty Session EJB


Fig 3- Ouput


Diego, thanks a lot!

We got featured in NetBeans Podcast #46

Does anyone heard NetBeans Podcast this time?
It was #46, remember?

No, well you should, there are 80+ contributors to this documentation project, everyone must listen this atleast once!

Why?

James Branam, NetBeans Community Docs Manager was recently interviewed by Llyod for NetBeans Podcast Episode #46!

"[..] the NetBeans World Tour (starting October 1!), James informs us about the NetBeans Community Docs Program, and [..]" - Geertjan

Here is the excerpt from the shownotes of the podcast-

18:15 James tells us about the NetBeans Community Docs Program:

• James' blog
• NetBeans Community Docs
• NetBeans Community Docs Blog
• Community Docs Wishlist
  

Guys what are you waiting plug-in your headphones, and listen to the exclusive interview.

James, thank you so much!

Administrando Freehg desde NetBeans

Aristides contributed yet another documentation in Spanish!

This time he focused on managing freeHg with NetBeans, more specifically 6.1 release!

What is this freeHg?

Mercurial [Hg for short] is a Distributed Version Control System. Instead of using a single repository per project, each developer can have their own repository.

freeHg.org makes it quick and easy to share your repositories.

Firstly, lets take a look at the following screenshot, which shows freeHg user interface...

Note

These screenshots just give you an overview of whats being discussed in the documentation. You are required to visit and read the documentation for more details.

Following screenshot shows what to expect at the end of tutorial-

Its time to read the documentation, do give it a read!

Aristides, thanks for contributing!

Aristides and Diego were Topmost Contributors

Last week, we recognized Tonny's contributions.

Likewise, we missed blogging about Aristides Villarreal Bravo and Diego E. Silva L, Topmost Contributors featured in 3rd edtion of weekly newsletter. Both of them, contributed 1 documentation during the week- August 25-31, 2008.

Follow-up blog entries would feature their contributions...sTay Tuned!

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #5

Spotlight of the Week

Yet again, we didn't have anyone to give spotlight to, if you feel you're the one that should get spotlight. Then, do join us, contribute and who knows your contributions could give you spotlight too!

Have a look at people who got spotlight on this blog-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/commdocs-spotlights


Latest docs

Tutorials

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Sep 10 | Integración de tipos de archivos

Sep 09 | Inicio rápido de Plugins con NetBeans

Prakan Puvibunsuk

Sep 09 | J2ME Starter Guide using NetBeans (Flash Demo)

Developer FAQ's

Tom Wheeler

Sep 08 | How can I suppress the Unexpected Exception dialog?

Sep 08 | How can I register services into the lookup using the system filesystem?

Sep 08 | How can code in one module be notified when other modules are loaded or unloaded?

Sep 08 | I've got a class not found error/exception. How can I fix it?

Special News

Code For Freedom...
Jay Mahadeokar, Sun Campus Ambassador recently blogged about this popular contest, which attracted many people inclusive of Amit Kumar Saha and Varun Nischal, last year. Is it coming back or not? Find out on Jay's blog!


NetBeans Platform Teaching Resources...
Several NetBeans Dream Team members and community members have done various presentations, on NetBeans Platform. They are available in form of ODP, PPT, PDF formats, at newly introduced webpage on the above.

Do you have slides of your own that could be added to the list above? Please also write to the nbedu mailing list with your slides and other resources in an attachment. Slides in other languages are especially welcome!


Plugin Development Worksop...
During Sun CA Induction Program from 05-07 Sept, 2008! Varun Nischal, conducted a workshop on Introduction to NetBeans Plugin Development at Amity University, Noida in India. For slides of this presentation-cum-workshop, visit the above links for more information.

Topmost contributor...
Tom Wheeler


Blog da docs

This section features the blog entries of the docs contributed by the topmost contributor featured, in the 2nd edition of the weekly.

Tonny Kohar

01 | NetBeans Platform Localization as Plugins

02 | Standalone Module Branding Tips

Dream Team Docs

July 2007
Aristides Villarreal Bravo was the only Dream Team Member to contribute docs in the month of July, and all his contributions were translations in Spanish.

This edition was brought to you by;
Varun Nischal

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DT Docs- July 2007

Today,

We would see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of July, 2007!

What about April-June, 2007?
Guys, we didn't have any contributions during that period, our program was progressing slowly, yet steadily, and in July, we got another set of contributions by such members.

Not, to forget...
The first ever contribution was made by NetBeans Dream Team Member.

Trivia

This month, our program had 4 contributions, surprisingly 3 coming from one member, and he's one of the members of NetBeans Dream Team!

Translations

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

July 12

Configuración OmegaT

Como traducir un modulo

July 13

Crear un proyecto nuevo OmegaT

Aristides, thank you so much!

Standalone Module Branding Tips

Tonny's 2nd contribution for the week August 18-24, 2008 was also done under category Tips and Tricks.

Its another adaption of his blog entry, he does blog quality material about NetBeans Platform, thats the reason, why his blog featured on Platform website.

As you can see in the image to the left, it features Tonny Kohar as an Expert of Tips and Tricks for NetBeans Platform.

Also, you can see names like Sandip, Toni, Jesse and authors of RCP Book, along with Tonny Kohar.

So, he's indeed a great contributor.

Well, after all this one can now have a look at another Tips and Tricks by him. I am reposting it here for your convenience...

Standalone Module Branding Tips

If you build a “standalone” module for your Netbeans RCP based application, during development you will notice that it will display the original Netbeans IDE/RCP splash screen rather than your branded application splash screen.

To enable your own branded splash during development you can add the following on the module project properties

Note: It is tested on Netbeans 6.1 IDE

# replace the token with your own branding token
branding.token=your-branding-name eg: sketsa
branding.dir=none

Tonny, thanks again!

Netbeans Platform Localization as Plugins

Hello all,

We are back to recognize contributions of our dearest community members, esp. the topmost contributor every week.

Its been quite some time, and we missed blogging about Tonny Kohar, Topmost Contributor featured in 2nd edition of weekly newsletter. He had contributed 2 docs during the week- August 18-24, 2008.

Here, we will showcase his first documentation, as this has been adapted from his blog entry.

This is another series of Netbeans Platform i18n and localization trick. This methods is used to localize Netbeans Platform based Application which can be updated using Update Center. It also have an entry on the Plugins List. However, please note this may be somekind of HACK. The proper localization should be following Netbeans Localization Project.

Thats the header for the contribution he did, and here's the snapshot of Plugin Manager.

Fig 1. This is tested on Netbeans 6.1, and use Alkitab Bible Study as example.

He has written this under category "Tips and Tricks", and we are glad to have him share his expertise, in 3 steps! Visit his documentation for more details...

Note- Click on the image, to visit his documentation

Stay Tuned for more...Thanks, Tonny!

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #4

Spotlight of the Week

The past one week we didn't have anyone to give spotlight to, if you feel you're the one that should get spotlight. Then, do join us, contribute and who knows your contributions could give you spotlight too!

Have a look at people who got spotlight on this blog-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/commdocs-spotlights


Latest docs

Luis Enrique Funes

Sep 07 | Localización de Aplicaciones Basadas en Netbeans Platform como Plugins

Hubert A Klein Ikkink

Sep 02 | Using the Output Window in NetBeans

Special News

Hurray...
Congratulations- Bilal and Samir, your documentations made it to the Knowledge Base!

James welcomes Evangelists...
The past one week, we saw James blog about our team expansion, welcoming two new members, who would be known as NetBeans Community Docs Evangelists.

Dzone MVB's...
After Amit Kumar Saha became a Dzone MVB, few months back. This time, Varun Nischal became a Dzone MVB. More information about that coming soon!

Topmost contributors...
Hubert A Klein Ikkink and Luis Enrique Funes

This edition was brought to you by;
Varun Nischal

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Welcome Community Docs Evangelists

Hi all,

Another week with a lot of goings on in the NetBeans Community Docs program. I'd like to take the time to welcome the programs evangelists: Aristides Villarreal bravo and Kristian Rink. I can think of no better candidates for the job of evangelist.

Both Kristian and Aristides have been very active in the NetBeans Community and have supported the NB Community Docs program since its inception. Both are also members of the distinguished NetBeans Dream Team.

The program is certain to benefit from their increased participation. I'm looking forward to working with them, and I have to say that with Varun, Amit, Kristian, and Aristides on board, we have one hell of a team.

--James

Bilal and Samir gets Recognition!

Recent Tutorials

Time to recognize some tutorials, and writers that got featured in NetBeans Knowledge Base.

01 | Bilal Ahamed

Note - Click on the images to get directed to their contributed documentations!

02 | Samir Kumar Mishra

Congratulations- Bilal and Samir, your documentations made it to the Knowledge Base!

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #3

Spotlight of the Week

Tushar Joshi
He's an experienced Java user and he works as a Software Architect at Infospectrum India Private Limited. He conducts a Java course and always searching for new ways to make the life of students easy to learn Java. He came across NetBeans IDE 6.0 and adopted it to teach Java EE to his students.

Latest docs

Diego Silva L.

Aug 26 | Para qué usar EJB

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Aug 26 | Administrando Freehg desde NetBeans

Special News

Evangelists...
As you know, we have completed 200 docs, and it marked the end of a successful Phase 2 of our program. Now, as part of our plans for Phase 3, we decided to expand our team, and call some of the special contributors, as our evangelists. Two people were invited and they are now part of our team. More information coming up this week. So, stay tuned to our blog! Anyways, members are-

Aristides Villarreal Bravo
Kristian Rink

Co-incidently, they are the NetBeans Dream Team Members too... Lets give them a warm welcome, and thank them for the work they have been doing till now.

Records Tumbling...
Back-to-back, records are tumbling. This time you wrote 23 contributions, which breaks the record set in the previous month.

Topmost contributors...
Diego Silva L., and
Aristides Villarreal Bravo

This edition was brought to you by;
Varun Nischal

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