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NetBeans Flash Demos: The Lost Episode

Starting late last year and into the early part of this year I spent quite a bit of time helping out on modifying Sun's Java training courses so that they use the NetBeans IDE. I've blogged about this before. As a part of that project, I created some Flash demos of the NetBeans Java editor. The editor got some signficant enhancements in version 5.0 of the IDE and we wanted to highlight those a bit. So several weeks ago my editor demos were put on the NetBeans IDE 5.0 Flash Demos page.

Well, four of them were. The demo I did on the editor's feature for expanding abbreviations into code templates had poor sound quality. So poor that John Jullion-Ceccarelli, one of our experts on Flash demos deemed it unworthy of the web site.

I still do not understand why the sound quality on that demo sucked. I used the same tool (Camtasia Studio) to create all five demos. Anyway, I recently re-recorded the audio and it came out okay this time. So Ruth Kusterer was kind enough to update the NetBeans Flash demo page, where you can now find the missing editor demo.

Roumen has suggested I use Audacity for recording sound. I tried it but had trouble grokking its approach. Roumen has agreed to give me some lessons next month when we are in California.

And if you have any questions for Roumen, he will be in the house on May 15 at NetBeans Day San Francisco. The first four hundred people through the door in San Francisco will get a free copy of the NetBeans IDE Field Guide, 2nd Edition and a free USB drive. Seats are limited, so register now. The event is free and you do not have to be registered for JavaOne in order to attend.

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