Who's Who?

Hello all,

This team has seen some changes in the recent past. James Branam, NetBeans Community Docs Manager (March 2007 - August 2009) had stepped down from this program on August 31st, 2009.

He had made an announcement as well, you may read it over his blog. To quote,

"After two and a half years of managing the NetBeans Community Docs program, I've decided to step down."

While James decided to step down, he passed the torch to another technical writer from his NetBeans Documentation Team, Jeff Rubinoff. So, let us give him a warm welcome and the cooperation, he may require to make the program, better for you and the community.

In the end, I would like you all to thank James for initiating this program and helping to increase the adoption of the NetBeans IDE through the documentation created for the community, by the community.

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #27

The Netbeans Community Docs newsletter for August 2009 is now available.

To view the newsletter, please click the link below.

August 2009

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Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

NetBeans Community Docs Survey

NetBeans Community Docs Survey

Today we (=the NetBeans Community Docs team) would like
to kindly ask you for input on our current and future doings:

Started in March 2007, the NetBeans Community Docs project has gone a long
way collecting and sorting pieces of documentation provided to the NetBeans
community solely by voluntary contributors from all around the globe. All
users involved into this process have done a great putting time and effort
into that project, and as a result, the impressive landmark of 300 user
contributed pieces of documentation has been reached in Februrary 2009.

However, sometimes things have to change, and so, by now we also want to
make some changes to the way NetBeans Community Docs project works. And for
that, being a 'community project' and thus not just maintained by the
community but also, in the content it collects, mainly aiming at providing
help and support to the community, we would like to know what the community
wants and needs before going any further. In near future, we want to make
NBCD more than ever an actively maintained, vivid 'community driven
knowledge base' directly addressing our users needs, adding our part to
helping people get the most out of NetBeans IDE.

For that, we would like to read your opinion. What do you like about NBCD so
far? What bothers you in using it in your everyday work? What kind of
content do you enjoy reading and using, and what would you like to see
improved as the project moves on? Take our survey now, take a chance to
tell us, to make 'the future NBCD' even more the community driven knowledge
base you would like to use and see.

Thanks very much for your time!

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #26

The Netbeans Community Docs newsletter for June 2009 is now available.

To view the newsletter, please click the link below.

June 2009

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Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

Latest Buzz | NetBeans FAQs

We are still alive, the project is not dead. Come on, cheer up! Its time to get yourself updated about this program.

You already know that, NetBeans Team along with Community Members provide lots of FAQs over NetBeans Wiki. You should also know that, we have added a section on two wikis maintained by NetBeans Team, i.e. User FAQs and Developer FAQs.

Visit this section on NetBeans User FAQs and NetBeans Developer FAQs, for more details.

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #25

The Netbeans Community Docs newsletter for May 2009 is now available.

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May 2009

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Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #24

The Netbeans Community Docs newsletter for April 2009 is now available.

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April 2009

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Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

Hi all,

Today I have a very important announcement to make. The NetBeans Community Docs program has a new Contribution Coordinator: Kristian Rink.

Kristian has been a very active participant in the program, and has also served as Evangelist. A native of Germany, Kristian has some excellent ideas for moving the program forward.

Please join me in congratulating Kristian and welcoming him to his new position.

I would also like to thank Varun Nischal, the program's former Contribution Coordinator, for a job well done. Under Varun's leadership, the program was able to reach new milestones, including the latest milestone of 300 contributions.

We all owe our thanks and congratulations to Varun.

Cheers!

--James

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #23

The Netbeans Community Docs newsletter for March 2009 is now available.

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March 2009

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Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #22

The Netbeans Community Docs Monthly Newsletter for February 2009 is available at this time. The Netbeans Community Docs team has added a few new sections to the newsletter. We think that they will be of great value to the readers.

To view the newsletter, please follow the link below.

February 2009

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Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

NBCD Monthly Newsletter #21

The Netbeans Community Docs Monthly Newsletter for January 2009 is available at this time. The format of the newsletter has changed a bit, we hope you like it.

To view the newsletter, please follow the link below.

January 2009

In the future, you will be able to view an index of all newsletters using the following link. We will begin to post a link to each newsletter from this date forward on the newsletter index page.

View the NBCD Newsletter Index.

Best to you, and thanks for reading.

Josh Juneau

Developing Jython Apps using NetBeans IDE

...is the first community-contributed tutorial on Python support in NetBeans 6.5 IDE, written by Joshua Juneau, NetCAT 6.5 Participant

Here's a brief overview of the tutorial;

Since Netbeans 6.5 has been released, Python and Jython support has been available via the nbPython plugin. There is quite a bit of documentation available for this plugin in various locations. In this article, I will tie together some of the different references for this plugin and I will show you how to generate a small Jython application which uses some Java libraries contained within an external JAR file.

Thanks, Josh!

Monthly Topmost Contributors 2007-08

Yesterday, we posted the statistics of our documentation project over the past 2 years (2007-08). Today, we present to you the list of our project's Monthly Topmost Contributors..

Year 2007

March
Spiros Gezerlis (2 docs)

April
Ahmet N Murati, Antonio Pintus (2 docs)

May
Paulo Cristo (5 docs)

July
Aristides Villarreal Bravo (3 docs)


August
Amit Kumar Saha (3 docs)

September
Amit Kumar Saha (2 docs)

October
Teera Kanokkanjanarat (2 docs)

November
Tonny Kohar (2 docs)

Year 2008

January
Kristian Rink (3 docs)

February
Amit Kumar Saha (2 docs)

March
Berni, Prakan Puvibunsuk (2 docs)

April
Jay Mahadeokar, John Muchow (3 docs)

May
Kunal Modi, Rajath Shanbag (2 docs)

June
Varun Nischal (8 docs)

July
Aristides Villarreal Bravo (3 docs)


August
Diego E. Silva L. (7 docs)

September
Hubert A. Klein Ikkink (5 docs)

October
Aristides Villarreal Bravo, Varun Nischal (2 docs)


November
Hubert A. Klein Ikkink (13 docs)

December
Anton Epple (4 docs)

Summary

Year 2007

June (4 docs) and December (9 docs), there were no significant contributors as authors wrote 1 doc each...

Year 2008

March, April, May and October featured 2 Topmost Contributors, while July, October and December featured members from NetBeans Dream Team.

Thank you!

Dec 2008 | NetBeans Dream Team

Now, we shall see contributions done by NetBeans Dream Team Members during the month of December, 2008!

When was the last time they contributed?
Two months back, in Nov '08! They contributed Tutorials and Developer FAQs.


Tips & Tricks

Spanish
Aristides Villarreal Bravo

Dec 24
Cambiar el formato de fecha de jXDatePicker

English
Anton Epple

Dec 24
Create your own Platform versions

Dec 24
Fix Navigator Mode in NetBeans Platform Applications

Dec 23
NetBeans on USB Stick

Dec 08
Fix External Web Browser in NetBeans Platform Application

Varun Nischal

Dec 08
Want to use GSF API's?

Kristian Rink

Dec 05
NetBeans for Processing users

Thank you, Anton, Aristides, Kristian and Varun!

Community-Contributed Docs Statistics

Statistics: Year 2007-08

Year 2007

Contributions- 76 (10 Months)
Unique Authors- 55

Analysis: This states that nearly every month, 8 docs were contributed to our project, and there were 5-6 authors joining the project every month..

Year 2008

Contributions- 203 (12 Months)
Unique Authors- 60

Analysis: This states that nearly every month, 17 docs were contributed to our project, and there were nearly 5 authors joining the project every month..

Comparative Study

From the above figures, one can infer that in the year 2008, there was 62.56% increase in the no. of contributions.. However, the rate of authors joining the project remained the same..

What Next?

This is your project and you are the driving force, so if you have any suggestions for betterment of this project, let us know.. We hope to see the same enthusiasm again this year, wish you good luck and thank you for your contributions till date..

Happy New Year :)