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.

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January 2009

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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 :)