Wanna play? Play with XML Layer!

Hi,

Time to notify you about the latest contributions! Yes, its been a month, where contributions came out-of-the-blue...Seriously, its been a tough time, getting contributions, convincing bloggers, and much more!

However, we still manage to get 14 docs for this month. Still 2 days to go, some more docs coming up! Majority of them being, tips and Tricks. Also, we got a series of docs, based on "optional configuration file" used in NetBeans Module Development- XML Layer! One of them getting reposted from NetBeans Zone! There were numerous tutorials, tips and Tricks, How To's summing up into Eight docs in totality.

If you are interested, then come, join us and contribute! Its really easy, if you learn a trick, while working with NetBeans on any kind of project OR you have some tips to remember...Hey, maybe you want to write a tutorial to help community achieve something in few steps!

What are you waiting for? Just drop a mail to me, about your idea- nvarun AT NetBeans DOT org We would be glad to have your idea turn into a neat documentation for community :-)

A Lot Going On

Hi all,
It's a great time to be part of the NetBeans Community Docs program. Contributions are coming in, interesting new plugins are being developed, and Varun and Amit are taking the program to new levels. I'm really excited about where we're heading.

Keep up the great work, guys!

--James

Yahoo! Pipes out NB Community Docs Bloggers' posts

A primary source of our contributions is all the enthusiastic bloggers out there who blog great stuffs on NetBeans.

To track their blogs I asked them to send in their blog feeds to me and I designed a Yahoo! pipe from them which outputs all the NetBeans related posts from their blogs:



This Yahoo! pipe is available at http://pipes.yahoo.com/akspipes/netbeanscommdocs

All those who want their blog to be added, please send in your Blog feeds.

yes, suggestions/comments are welcome!

Mining the Blogosphere

Hey, you have just blogged a nice tutorial, neat tip/trick, OR maybe created an amazing screencast. That's it what, you think! How about telling the world, and hearing those words from the NetBeans users all over the world? Sounds cool! Want to contribute, however prefer blogging, rather than making a wiki.

Here's a solution for you people, whenever you post a tutorial, a tip/trick OR create a screencast that might help so many users, on your blog. Just notify us on our mailing list, for subscribing to the list, follow this blog entry by James.

Time to get started, folks! We don't want to miss out on great documentations. Can't wait to see you there!

Are you ready?

Revolutionizing Community Docs!

Buzzz...!!!

Hey, this isn't any alarm! But, time to update you and keep you abreast with latest advancements in Community Docs... :-)

Have problem following us, don't want to join our mailing list and want to the know the latest in the easiest way possible. Hey, wake up! Web 2.0 revolution continues, now its the turn of Community Docs...

How?

Check out the new widgets we have on our left panel of this blog, we got twitter badge, you can view our profile and start following too. Also, there's a list of category-specific RSS chicklets, thanks to Feedburner, now you can digg into, stumble upon OR even favorite on technorati, the latest contributions, spotlights and much more.

The Twitter account, is being fed by twitterfeed, and would tweet as follows;

1. Latest comments on our blog, pre-fixed with "comments- ",
2. Latest announcements being made over here, pre-fixed with "news- ",
3. Latest contributions, we blog about, pre-fixed with "docs- ",
4. NetBeans Spotlight, given to deserving contributors, pre-fixed with "spotlight- "
5. Finally, latest blog entries we found and were contributed into docs, pre-fixed with "tagged- ".

Thanks to twitterfeed, for making this possible. Great web-service, that lets you automate tweets from any kind of RSS feeds, be it our category-specific blogs, our delicious bookmarks, etc.

Why are we doing this?

I guess you might have understood the importance of our program, why documentation is the backbone of any project, whether open source OR not! It still plays a key role, documentation could be a blog entry, an article, a tutorial, a hack OR some design documents. However, we are only interested in having articles, tutorials, screencasts, blogs and tips&tricks.

Welcome :)

Finally, here's our website - http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs and this is our blog! Come, join us and revolutionize, "The Only IDE You Need!"

Hello, again!

Hi everybody,

I have been off this blog for a while. Why? Well, I have finished with my graduation, started off with my first job at Sun Microsystems, India and I am no more the NetBeans Community Docs co-ordinator :-(. James, What did I do wrong? Was getting a job in Sun a sin that I committed? Wasn't I doing well? Wasn't i competent enough? (The announcement)

Just kidding :-)

We, at the NetBeans Community Docs function in a way such that the co-ordinator is always a person who is a 'non-Sun' guy. Since I became a Sun-guy, I had to 'resign'. The next task for us- myself & James was to choose some one to fill in my shoes- which I learnt, were pretty BIG. So we found Varun who has the right feet to fill the BIG shoes :-). And I am glad, we chose him. He is doing great.

Oh, I have a new role- I am now the NetBeans Community Docs Content Manager

You can see me blogging here as well as my personal blog here at http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha

Thank you all for keeping this program up and running.

Good Luck Varun.

Rollin' out "Tips and Tricks"

Hello,

John Muchow, is back with another set of documentations, this time its tips and tricks! Recently, two of his latest tips and tricks on Ruby, were found on his blog, which have been added to the Community Docs Wiki. Earlier, he had done screencasts too. Anyways, here are the contributions -

1. Using a Stack with Ruby
2. Using a String as a File in Ruby
   

Also, welcome Hubert A. Klein Ikkink, to our community as he has also contributed two tips and tricks!

1. Hot Development of Web Application with Maven in NetBeans
2. Fast Bookmarking in NetBeans

By the way, we are glad as we took off finally this month! Its been 3 weeks since we achieved a crucial milestone - 150 docs!

Come on guys, we are waiting! Share your expertise with the world and expand your knowledge base too.