Gregg Sporar's Blog

A Happy New NetBeans Year

There are many things that I like about my job, but if I had to pick just one favorite thing, it would be the people that I get to meet. Across the United States and in several countries around the world I've been privileged to meet interesting, talented, and highly motivated people. Some of these folks I have only met via email but for many I have been lucky enough to meet them face-to-face.

Interacting with so many nice members of the NetBeans community is an energizing experience. There are too many people to list them all here, but I do want to share a postcard that I got in the (snail) mail the other day. It is from Miki Shimizu, who I wrote about in an entry on NetBeans Day Tokyo (click it for the full-size version):

She goes by the name Noniko and has a popular weblog. In addition, she is a well-known member of the Japanese NetBeans community and was kind enough to participate in a skit with Jeff Jackson during NetBeans Day Tokyo. I talked with her about some features she would like to see in the NetBeans IDE and we exchanged some emails. She appears to be multi-talented so I am assuming she does all her own artwork. If you look closely at the monitor shown in the postcard you can easily see the well-known NetBeans "cube" logo.

Noniko is planning for a happy new NetBeans year, and so am I. The 5.0 release is due in just a few weeks. After that ships, additional announcements will start in February that provide more details on the plans for the rest of 2006, so stay tuned.

And the NetBeans World Tour continues. Next up is Bangkok, Thailand (registration), followed by Chennai, India (registration). Check out the World Tour page for the rest of the schedule. And have a Happy New Year. :-)

Comments

• Hi, nicely scanned image! I'm looking forward to NB5.0 release.

  Posted by: noniko on January 02, 2006 at 06:28 PM

• My NetBeans year would be even better if I could figure out how to include my own GUI components from my working project in the palette manager. NetBeans is so close to being perfect!

  Posted by: joconner on January 03, 2006 at 02:27 AM

• Since posting my previous comment, Gregg led me to a Flash demo that helped me solve my palette issue immediately. Great help. Thanks.
  

  Posted by: joconner on January 03, 2006 at 11:51 AM

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