NetBeans 6.7 out in the wild

The focus of NetBeans IDE 6.7 is connectivity—helping developers to connect to the latest technologies and to each other. New features include integration with Project Kenai, a collaborative environment for developers to host their open-source projects; native Maven support, and Hudson integration.
Building on the success of previous releases, NetBeans IDE 6.7 offers enhancements for Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Groovy and C/C++, and more. Additional highlights include a self-diagnostic Profiler, and support for SVG Rich Components, remote debugging in Ruby, and the latest version of GlassFish. The release also provides plug-in support for Zembly, a single registry and repository for popular Web APIs.
Providing superior support for multiple languages and innovative team support through Project Kenai, the NetBeans IDE 6.7 is the ideal tool for developers to stay connected to their teams and to the latest technologies!
NetBeans IDE 6.7 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
Detailed Release Highlights
Connected Developer
- Create Kenai-hosted open source projects within the IDE
- Manage your Kenai project and collaborate with like-minded developers
- File issue tracking reports with Jira and Bugzilla
Maven
- Library dependency graph viewer
- Improved code completion for Maven plugin parameters
- Support for Java EE, Web Services creation and consumption
PHP
- PHPUnit support
- Code coverage and Selenium support
- SQL code completion in the PHP editor
Groovy and Grails
- Out-of-the-box support for Grails 1.1
- Code completion
- Invoke Grails command or custom script from context menu item
Java
- Hudson services integration for Ant and Maven projects 
- Generated source roots now displayed in the Projects tab
- Struts library migrated to version 1.3.8 
GlassFish
- Glassfish v3 Prelude instance with pre-configured Derby (Java DB) integration
- Code completion support for GlassFish v3 Prelude
Ruby and Rails
- Remote debugging support
- Improvements to Ruby constants support
C/C++
- DLight profiling tools for C++ projects
- Integrated support of popular Qt library and tools
Profiler
- Export profiling data into CSV, HTML and XML formats
- HeapWalker supports OQL queries
Java ME / Mobility
- Bundled with the Java Platform Micro Edition Software Development Kit 3.0
- Full support for SVG Rich Components in the Visual Mobile Designer
- Support for the Java Card Platform 3.0

~Sujith Emmanuel

EveryOnez Welcome

After a while

This is my post after a long hiatus. Am still with Sun and hot. Did clear the Sun Certified Solaris 10 Administrator during this period. Saw the market fluctuations and how companies try to deal with it. Took up more responsibilities. Saw lot of friends move to different parts of the world, join the rat race, try to perform and loose touch with themselves.

Am no different in this aspect, the last few months saw me also a lot busy, not taking time to touch another person's life. Trying to solve one challenge after another without thinking about anything or anybody. I suppose it'll continue till you reach a point after which you turn back to see how you have spent your years in the world and reflect how you could've used that time better, what would've been a better investment and such. Guess the aim of everyone should be to make sure that you don't get to regret much at that point in time.

~Sujith Emmanuel

Sun Cert Solaris Administration part 1

So at last i got time to write the Solaris Admin first exam. Had been thinking about writing both the exams for the past one year now. Due to some reason, couldn't get myself to write it. Now that the vouchers are getting expired at the end of this month, it leaves me with no time. Planning on writing the second exam sometime this week.

As for the first exam, its pretty easy to crack if you have some Solaris 10 experience. There were a total of 60 questions and the pass percentage was 60%. Before the actual exam questions, there was a survey about how good you are on different facets of Solaris OS. Have a feeling that the questions you face could be randomised according to the choices you make in the survey questions. I could be wrong though.

Test blog entry from Live Writer

Testing a new client for writing blogs. Till now it was either direct editing or through Scribefire.

Lets see how this works out.

 

~Sujith Emmanuel

foss.in

Two weeks back i attended this Open Source conference called FOSS.IN. I wanted to attend at the least three days out of four having very interesting talks but could make it only for one and a half day. The crowd was very techy and this conference is a must attend if you have anything to do with opensource in india.

One of the snaps is of a kernel guy who could not stand at one place, so difficult to catch a snap that i have to take a video ;). His talk was really good.

Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science
and Grid Computing
December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

http://www.escience 2007.org

Sponsored By:
IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
http://www.ieeetcsc.org

Organised/Supported by:
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Indiana University, USA
LSU Center for Computation & Technology, USA
EuroIndiaGrid Project
OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute), UK
Microsoft Corporation
Hewlett Packard (HP)
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UPCOMING DEADLINES:

* Advance Registration Deadline: Nov 7, 2007

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
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The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from around the world.

Keynotes:
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The conference features plenary keynote speakers drawn from Europe, North America, and Asia

The conference also features technical talks from industries.

Contributed Papers:
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The Program Committee has selected 60 top quality research papers out of 206 submissions from all over the world for presentation at the conference.

Workshops:
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* OGF (Open Grid Forum) Workshop on eScience Highlights
* Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in Distributed Resources
* Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science
* International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop

Posters and Research Demos:
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The conference features 21 posters and 5 "live" research demons selected from submissions
from all over the world.

Tutorials:
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1. Introduction to Globus Toolkit GT4
Presenter: Ravi Madduri, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

2. Market-based Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
Presenter: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

3. Autonomic Grid Computing
Presenter: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University (USA) Omer Rana, Cardiff University (UK)

4. Applications enablement on Grid Presenters: Mangala and Prahlad Rao, C-DAC, India

The exhibition session will consist of exhibits/presentations from vendor companies and R&D laboratories.

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS:
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The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, The University of Melbourne, and C-DAC sponsored travel support is being offered to students. All eligible research degree students are encouraged to apply to one of the following related scholarships:
1. International Students (TCSC supported):
http://www.ieeetcsc .org/young/ eScience07/ TCSCgrant.html
2. India-based Students (TCSC and Uni. of Melbourne supported):
http://www.ieeetcsc .org/young/ eScience07/TCSC-UnimelbGrant.html
3. C-DAC supported (For Indian students only):
http://www.escience 2007.org/ scholarship.asp

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
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The conference registration includes attendance to all e-Science (1) workshops, (2) tutorials, (3) technical sessions, (4) posters and research demo, (5) exhibits and (6) a copy of the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society.
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