NB Community Docs: Faster NetBeans? Yes, it is posible… :)

Here is a cool neat trick to make your NetBeans even faster! The NetBeans Community Docs contribution "Faster NetBeans? Yes, it is posible… :)" shows you how you can achieve faster NetBeans start-up by placing it in the 'tmpfs' (on Linux).


Check it out here!

NetBeans Community Docs Spotlight: Kristian Rink

Hello all!

Its time for the NetBeans Community Docs Spotlight and this time we move to Dresden, Germany where we have Kristian Rink, who has been very active in the community with his documentation in English & German.



Here is what Kristian had to say to our Q & A:

What do you do?

I do work for a mid-sized company that acts as a "digital solution
provider" to customers in the building and construction industry (which
mainly is about centralized document management and workflow control).
As software engineer and "head-of-dev" I am into conception and
development of server-sided Java applications, but my job also involves
introducing and educating students in this field of work once in a
while. Ah yes, I'm a blogger as well (http://dm.zimmer428.net)... ;)

When did you first start using NetBeans?

For the very first time I dealt with NetBeans quite a while ago,
version 3.x or something like that I guess, while still at the
university, but didn't get to do any more meaningful things simply
because, these days, working with Java was just part of a semester
project we got finished rather quickly. When I got back to Java
development (and actually started earning money this way), I took a
crash-dive into Eclipse which I used for about five years. Switched to
NetBeans while in early 6.0 pre-releases just for the sake of checking
it out, and finally started using it exclusively as it seems to just
have increased my productivity in various ways.

What do you like best about NetBeans?

There are many things making NetBeans rather interesting (great
community, incredibly well-documented as an RCP, strong maven2 support,
always on "the very edge" of technologies in terms of Java and Java EE
versions, ...), but if I had to pick one, I'd say that NetBeans simply
is an IDE that helps getting the job done unobtrusively and without
getting into your way. Just fire it up and get work done, that's what a
good tool should be like.




Thank you Kristian for your work. Happy NetBeaning!

Creating SOAP Web Services with NetBeans 6

In this doc titled Creating Web Services with NetBeans 6, the author, Siegfried Bolz demonstrates how easy it is to create Web-Services with NetBeans 6!

Go ahead and check it out!

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NetBeans Community Docs is rocking at Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad, India

Hello all!

Even before the NetBeans Day (to be held on 29th February), the
NetBeans Community Docs has been pretty well represented there by me
and well received, too :-), thanks to the long list of recent
successful ventures!

I met Rouman Strobl, had a talk with him at the NetBeans Booth and
kept lingering around there and answered a few curious souls too!

I also met Kunal, Anil and Santaram who were NetBeans Contributors in the Code For Freedom!

Then I did a very very short presentation on NetBeans Community Docs
as part of the session called "Open Source: Open Exchange". The
presentation is available here . I also met David Lindt there.We had a great talk there and will continue talking via emails.

Also, there was a couple of general queries about the NetBeans
Community Docs, like:

1. Who judges the quality of the docs?
2. Any particular focus we have.

It was pretty cool to introduce myself as the NetBeans Community Docs
Coordinator and subsequently, receive the adulation!

A Great experience!

NetBeans Innovators Grant

Hi everybody,

Sun Microsystems has put together a very interesting competition. For NB Community Docs contributors, this is an excellent opportunity to show the world what you can do (or what you've done). There are a lot of contributions that, with a little tweaking, would make fantastic submissions to the competition.

Any question? Just go to to the Innovators Grant Webpage to check it out.

Also, we've started archiving contributions on the wiki. If you have a contribution that has been there for a while, don't be surprised if it isn't listed in the Contributions table. It hasn't disappeared into space; it has been relocated to another wiki, which is linked from the main Community Docs wiki. You'll also be able to find it on netbeans,org, or more precisely at http://www.netbeans.org/community/commdocs.html

See you soon!

--James

The Latest buzz from the Community Docs is here!

Hi all,

This is Amit. I am the NetBeans Community Docs coordinator.

My day job now is being a final-year undergrad student in Computer Science from India. My other important tasks involve NetBeans Community Docs, Technical Writing, Book Review, and Researchy stuffs.

Linux and Open-Source interests me. The Linux kernel is an all time favorite thing which I really wish I could spend time on. Developing plug-in modules for NetBeans is another current favorite.

More about me here on my personal blog at http:///amitksaha.blogspot.com

Welcome to the New NetBeans Community Docs Blog

Hi all,
Well, this is it. Amit and I have decided to start blogging together on all matters concerning NetBeans Community Docs. Thanks, Amit, for setting this up.

Since this is my first blog entry, I'll say a few things about myself. I'm from the U.S., originally from Indiana, but I went to university in Oregon (Oregon State University). I've been employeed at Sun Microsystems since November 2005, and I've been the Community Docs Manager since Marrh 1, 2007.

That should be enough to get thing started. Now, I hope that Amit will add a few words about himself.

See you soon!

--James