NBCD Spotlight- Tushar Joshi

Let me introduce you to Tushar Joshi, he lives in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. I'm glad to give him spotlight, as he fully deserves it. Have a look at his blogs, so much to learn from almost every post. He's an experienced Java user and he works as a Software Architect at Infospectrum India Private Limited.

He says, "I am working with Java since 1998."

So, when did he first start using NetBeans? Any guesses? Have a look at the answer-
"I conduct a Java course and always searching for new ways to make the life of students easy to learn Java. I came across NetBeans IDE 6.0 and adopted it to teach Java EE to my students."

"The bundled features of NetBeans IDE makes it easy to install and easy to use with very little configuration. I entered the NetBeans IDE world with an ambition to contribute one plugin which can be used by the community.", when asked, What he likes the best about NetBeans!

Recent Contributions

Using Subversion and Local Repository
Changing Look And Feel
Changing Default Font Size

So, what else keeps Tushar busy?

He says, "I am the leader of JUG Nagpur and have plans to spread the usefulness of NetBeans IDE in JUG Nagpur community in the coming events."

Tushar, thanks for your contributions, and we hope you make it big with your JUG and continue contributing to the NetBeans Community.

NBCD Weekly Newsletter #2

Spotlight of the Week

Tom Wheeler
I am a Principal Software Engineer for Object Computing, Inc. (http://www.ociweb.com/). Most of my work during the past three years has been based on the NetBeans Platform. I've used the platform as a foundation for several engineering applications at Boeing where I am currently consulting. You can learn more about exactly what I do from the presentation I gave, along with Bruce Shimel of Boeing, at JavaOne this year:

http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-5541&yr=2008&track=desktop


Latest docs

Tonny Kohar

Aug 19 | Netbeans Platform Localization as Plugins

Aug 19 | Netbeans Platform Standalone Module Branding tips

Special News

21 docs again...
This is amazing, its the second consecutive month with 21 contributions, which equals the record set in the previous month.

Topmost contributor...
Tonny Kohar


Blog da docs

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

Aristides Villarreal Bravo

01 | Tutorial Básico de NetBeans para Novatos Parte II (Bases Datos)

02 | Agregando Componentes SwingX a la Paleta

Dream Team Docs

March 2007

Vincent Brabant was the only Dream Team Member to contribute a doc in the first month of our program, and his contribution was the first ever done for our NBCD program.

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DT Docs- March 2007

Today,

We begin an exclusive blog series for docs contributed by NetBeans Dream Team. As the subject says "DT Docs- March 2007". So, this post would only features docs contributed by the Team during month of March, in 2007.

Trivia

Its surprise for everyone that the first ever documentation was also done by NetBeans Dream Team Member.

Screencast(s)
NetBeans 6 Milestone 5 Features
Contributed by Vincent Brabant, on March 1, 2007!

Extras
It was the first ever screencast of our program!

Vincent, thank you so much!

Agregando Componentes SwingX a la Paleta

Hello again,

Now, let us see the 2nd contribution done by Aristides Villarreal Bravo, last weeks' topmost contributor. He has done yet another Spanish tutorial, its somewhat related to Prakan's screencast. The focus is on SwingX, one of the core projects of Swing Labs;

This is what site says-
SwingX is all about Swing components. It focuses both on extensions to existing Swing components as well as brand new ones. SwingX contains a lot of great components that you can use in your applications today.

Lets see one of the snapshots of the tutorial-


Thanks again, Bravo!

Tutorial Básico de NetBeans para Novatos Parte II (Bases Datos)

Aristides Villarreal Bravo, last weeks' topmost contributor had done 2 contributions. This is the first one, he has done a Spanish tutorial, what I could understand from the snapshots, that he's explaining how to use MySQL with NetBeans 6.1!

Here are some snapshots;
Fig 1-


Fig 2-


Stay Tuned for more...Thanks, Bravo!

NBCD Spotlight- Tom Wheeler

Hi Tom,

Welcome to NetBeans Community Docs Program, we are glad to give you spotlight. I just have few questions to ask, I am sure everyone would enjoy this as much as you will do.

Varun:

Where do you live?

Tom:

Well, I live in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Varun:

Cool! So, what exactly do you do?

Tom:

I am a Principal Software Engineer for Object Computing, Inc. (http://www.ociweb.com/). Most of my work during the past three years has been based on the NetBeans Platform. I've used the platform as a foundation for several engineering applications at Boeing where I am currently consulting. You can learn more about exactly what I do from the presentation I gave, along with Bruce Shimel of Boeing, at JavaOne this year:

http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-5541&yr=2008&track=desktop

Recent contributions

• Other strategies for authentication and authorization
• Can I create a console or server (non-GUI) app with the NetBeans Platform?
• What are some of the hooks in the application's lifecycle I can plug into?

Varun:

So, those were your recent contributions. Now, tell me one thing, when did you first start using NetBeans?

Tom:

I tried it back in 2000 just after it was open sourced. But most of
the development I did on the time was on remote servers, so I
continued using vi and the UNIX shell for development for a few years.

I switched to Eclipse in 2003 and continued using it until I got
involved with the NetBeans Platform in 2005. When NetBeans 5.0 came out, I started using NetBeans IDE a lot because of the wonderful Matisse GUI editor and the very helpful support for building platform applications. Since major improvements in the editor and overall performance came out in NetBeans 6.0, I find it really is the only IDE I need.

Varun:

Finally, what do you like best about NetBeans?

Tom:

The one thing I like best is that I can install it and immediately start working. The features I need most, like the GUI builder and profiler, are built right in to the Java IDE. It's amazing how much they've packed into a 60MB download. In the rare case where I do need something extra, it's easily added from the plugin manager.

Tom, thank you so much. Hope to see more Developer FAQ's from you...

Me and the NetBeans Community Docs

Its just more than year now, I have been involved with this project. Feels Great!

Some bits: http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/me_and_the_netbeans_community