The NetBeans 6.1 Beta blogging contest which kicked of 14th March 2008 had the whole community riding an a new blogger wave that saw many new and old developers turn into technical writers as the expressed their likes and dislikes about the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta.
The contest ended on 18th April 2008 and in the process we witnessed some of the most brilliant articles and thoughts that gave a deep insight into the NetBeans world and also showed the awareness and enthusiasm of the community for NetBeans. The netbeaners around the world not only presented useful tutorials and tricks but also brought out certain ideas which would help to make our IDE better.
Here are links to some of the insightful and delicious blogs posted by the participants:
1. Tushar Joshi was probably had the most happening and active blog where he explored many aspects of NetBeans from mercurial to Eclipse. He also gave some insightful reviews including things that netbeans must do to survive as well as reasons why he uses NetBeans. Hats off to you for the brilliant blogging!!
2. John' O Connor gave an interesting insight into the UTF-8 encoding scheme in NetBeans 6.1 Beta and brought up a good point that could be thought upon.
3. Lucio Benfante provided at this screencast, in which he creates a new project with Parancoe and NetBeans 6.1.
4. Adam Myatt explored the new sharable libraries feature and documented what he found in a nice fashion.
5. Bruno Ghisi presented a cool tutorial on making a Hello world SunSpot Application using NetBeans 6.1 Beta.
6. Dustin explored the JavaScript support in NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta beautifully.
7. Harshad Oak compares NetBeans VS Eclipse VS JDeveloper in an interesting manner.
8. Xykon found a possible bug in NetBeans 6.1 RC1.
9. Charles Ditzel speaks about Ruby and javascript.
10. And Oh!! Roman Strobl presents the future plans of NetBeans which will become an online IDE.
There were many more fascinating entries which might not be covered in this post. Feel free to give the links in the comments.
The contest successfully brought out the passion for NetBeans throughout the community and reconfirmed the outstanding popularity for the NetBeans IDE.
The winners are to be announced on 12th May. Best luck to all the hopefuls!! And Keep Blogging!!
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April 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Thanks Jay for the mention of my NetBeans IDE 6.1 blog. There may be many people who we don't know due to non availability of the participants official list.
Good list, creative efforts!
with regards
Tushar
April 25, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Hello Jay,
Nice work. Would you like your work to be highlighted in an official sun.com webpage? If yes, you can contact me at firstname dot lastname at sun dot com. I need your school name. You can figure out my first name and last name from the gmail address I had to provide in order to post the comment.
Thanks and keep up great work.
April 25, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Looking at how the comment showed up, I'm not sure what information you see about the person posting the comment. Anyway, my last name is mandal.
April 26, 2008 at 2:21 AM
@ Chhandomay Sir:
Thanks for the opportunity. It would be a great honor for me to get mentioned on the official sun.com page.
I am a student of Computer Science and Engineering Department,
III Year,
College: SRKNEC, Nagpur.
I will contact you asap.
Thanks again.