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geertjan - NetBeans Shisha Integration

Jan 6, 8:48 AM

One of the top 10 features of Egypt is, of course, the shisha (more specifically, the contents thereof). Here is me last night outside a cafe in Cairo with Hamada, Amr, and Khaled, applying the ...

Alan McClellan - Positive reviews for 2008.11 docs

Jan 5, 10:22 AM

Usually, technical writers only hear comments on their work when there is a problem...an error in a procedure or a lack of clarity or the like.  But lo and behold, here is an independent blog review ...

geertjan - Cairo on the NetBeans Platform!

Jan 4, 8:08 AM

Today was day two of a three day NetBeans Platform Training in Cairo. The training is being held at the University of Cairo, but many of the students are from many other places—and most are either ...

geertjan - "NetBeans greatly simplifies plugin development" -- Jeff Friesen

Jan 3, 10:59 AM

Jeff Friesen (whose great book "Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional" I reviewed here on Javalobby ) has written a great article, freshly published in JavaWorld: The last ...

rchrd - Not so fast

Jan 2, 9:48 PM

Well, using Gimp as a replacement for Photoshop is not as easy as it would seem. And, I'm growing increasingly more frustrated. It doesn't seem to do as nice a job as similar operations in Photoshop, ...

geertjan - Join Free NetBeans Platform Training in Cairo (3 - 5 January)

Dec 31, 8:51 AM

Start your year with your first steps onto the NetBeans Platform . Ahmed Hashim , the leader of the Egyptian Java User Group , has arranged a time and place for a NetBeans Platform Training in Cairo, ...

rchrd - 'Tis the Season to Upgrade

Dec 28, 12:39 AM

One of the real conundrums this time is worrying over how to upgrade my working system. I’m a “trailing edge” person .. I’d rather not upgrade my software unless it’s absolutely necessary. So my ...

geertjan - Egyptian Christmas Tree at El Menoufiya University

Dec 25, 6:02 AM

More pics here by Hamada and others.

geertjan - Nice Announcement in Egypt!

Dec 24, 5:45 AM

I was googling today and came across this announcement: And everything stated above is 100% true ( here are the pics from yesterday ), except for the minor detail that there should be a capital "B" ...

sweber - New Docs for Java CAPS 6 Update 1

Dec 23, 10:38 PM

Java CAPS 6 Update 1 is now available from the Sun Download Center. The Java CAPS 6 docs have been updated on both SDN and docs.sun.com. What's New in Java CAPS Release 6 Update 1 details new ...

geertjan - El-Menoufiya and NetBeans IDE

Dec 23, 12:09 PM

I was at El-Menoufiya University today, which is midway between Cairo and Alexandria, which is where I have been staying for a while (and where I'll be for quite a while longer). The always energetic ...

geertjan - More Introductory Training Materials for the NetBeans Platform

Dec 21, 2:44 AM

In January, Jaroslav Tulach, Toni Epple, and Thomas Würthinger will be giving a NetBeans Platform training course at the Institut für Systemsoftware, which is part of the Johannes Kepler Universität ...

rchrd - Because I Can: Sun Studio on Ubuntu under OpenSolaris over VirtualBox!

Dec 18, 11:24 AM

I installed Sun Studio Express 2008.11 on Ubuntu 8.10 running on my OpenSolaris 2008.11 platform using VirtualBox to host Ubuntu as a client OS. Now, there's no real reason for doing this... Sun ...

Brian Leonard - OpenSolaris, Sun Web Stack and VirtualBox debut at Devoxx

Dec 15, 1:30 PM

As Devoxx founder Stephan Janssen told me last week: "Even though you're an evangelist, the committee reviewed your talk and thought it would be of interest". Great, as that was my plan when I put ...

geertjan - Its Super Crazy Nesting Nightmare Might Mean JavaFX's Death...

Dec 15, 12:19 PM

...unless there are tools like this: Or is it just me? I don't see myself ever seriously using a shiny PhotoShop-like designer for working with JavaFX (although I am really looking forward to there ...

geertjan - Little Elly

Dec 14, 8:38 AM

Little Elly gulped a magnet thinking that it was a sweet, ever after she felt drawn to metal objects in the street. When her mother lost a bracelet, when her father dropped a nail, when they lost a ...

geertjan - Animal Meets Person: A JavaFX Drama Unfolds

Dec 13, 8:23 AM

I wanted to figure out how to make two objects in JavaFX interact with each other. Something like this: For each of these, I created a new custom node because potentially each object would have many ...

rchrd - I Love OpenSolaris 2008.11

Dec 12, 4:23 PM

I've been using OpenSolaris 2008.11 for almost a month now as my primary working environment on my Acer Ferrari 4000 AMD64 laptop. It has replaced SXDE (Solaris Express Developer Edition). And I'm ...

Judith Lilienfeld - CommunityOne East Call for Participation

Dec 12, 1:26 PM

This year CommunityOne is expanding beyond San Francisco to the other side of the U.S.  CommunityOne is heading east to New York City on March 18, 2009  followed by a day of Technology Deep Dives on ...

geertjan - Linux & JavaFX Tooling in NetBeans IDE

Dec 12, 5:28 AM

Follow Weiqi Gao's latest instructions (which I found out about thanks to Jim Weaver today ) and you too will be able to develop JavaFX applications in NetBeans IDE, even though you're using Linux ...