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Desafio NetBeans - the plugin contest - postcards from Brazil II
Posted by timboudreau on November 25, 2005 at 08:31 AM | Comments (4)
I'm here in Brazil to kick off the Desafio NetBeans, the NetBeans plug-in writing contest. A training company down here, that I've worked with, GlobalCode is running the contest, and Sun is supplying the prizes - three expense-paid trips to the JavaOne conference in San Francisco in May. It's country-wide, and open to all Brazillian Java developers. It's a lot of fun to be helping put together something that will give away something really cool - and a trip to JavaOne is pretty darned cool.
So as a part of that, Charlie Hunt and I are frenetically flying around Brazil, doing training on NetBeans and NetBeans module writing, and the new plug-in development tools in NetBeans 5.0. We did a three hour talk for the local JUG in Sao Paolo last night, got in after a late dinner at 2AM, and were on the way to the airport to Salvador at 5:30 this morning; then we'll fly to Natal at 1AM tonight, with a 3AM stopover, to do the training talks there tomorrow night. Did I mention it's fun? Did I mention it's exhausting? :-)
Brazil is, as always, a fascinating and beautiful country. I'm continually amazed by how networked people are here - every Java developer seems to know every other one. A friend of mine who works at Google told me that a social networking program called Orkut is hugely popular down here - and indeed it seems to be - I'm told even taxi drivers have accounts on it, and teenagers compete on the size of their friend networks. I've never seen anything quite like it.
A panorama from Florianopolis (click for full size)
So, for any non-networked Brazilian Java devlopers who would like to meet us in our travels, here's our basic schedule:
- Thursday, November 24, 2005 - Sao Paolo
- Friday, November 25, 2005 - Salvador
- Saturday, November 26 - Natal
- Monday, November 28 - Brasilia
- Tuesday, November 29 - Florianopolis
- Thursday, December 1 - Porto Alegre
- Friday, December 2 - Campinas
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You wouldn't know someone @Orkut, so that I may get an invitation? would be really cool to get in touch with some of those java geeks you mentioned.
Posted by: sven on November 25, 2005 at 11:41 AM
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One way to encourage a mass of plugins for NetBeans is to port plugins for other Java plugin-based desktop apps, like jEdit or even Eclipse. OK, forget the latter, will just create controversy--but jEdit would be a good candidate, as there are already plugins written for many other FOSS tools to integrate them into the jEdit editor. The fact that there are already jEdit plugins means someone has thought about plugin isolation boundaries so a certain amount of the effort is already taken care of. Ditto for scripts--the NetBeans Coyote project could do a lot with the scripts written (in BeanShell) for jEdit. Just a thought.
Posted by: pdoubleya on November 28, 2005 at 01:14 PM
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I loved your visit here in Porto Alegre. I'm new to java, started to program about 2 weeks ago, and what I saw and heard made me want to know more, and "uow", netbeans is cool. Thanks for your visiting here in Brazil. Note: Sao Paulo, not Sao Paolo hehehehe.
[hey, I could ask you some questions about programming? I saw your program, the "Son of Paintit!" and it has some recourses that I like to use but don't know where to start or how to do then, like the "photoshop layers" like. What did you used? What part of Java2D? I need to do something like your program to my teacher, but in a Applet and I'm complete lost. Well, thanks anyway and goodbye.]
my email : darkfenrirsoul@gmail.com . If anyone wants an orkut account ask me, I have one and can invite ^^.
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