NetBeans people play better music J Classic stuff straight from my demographic. Anyway I digress. I’m sitting in the NetBeans day @ the Argent in SF waiting for the keynote. I was not one of the first 300 people here because my plane was delayed by 25 minutes because of the fog. Anyway There is a silly loop of gosling, duke and two women I don’t recognize (looks like anime people) bouncing around on the screen (lousy shot captured with my cell here). Kind of silly but the music is good.

 

Looks like the machine driving the display is a Linux box running the 3d desktop (looking glass). Basically the doc is a flat plate with the apps sitting on it. Kind of like the Mac docs but not  as refined looking.

 

Another thing I’ve not noticed is as many power books here as I saw at EclipseCon back in Feb. Ah well you can’t get everything J

 

Kind of weird being the Eclipse Developer Journal guy at a NetBeans thing but I guess it can’t hurt to see what the other open source IDE is touting in their next version.

 

Funny bouncing Gosling is gone, must be about time for the keynote to start…

 

Looking Glass

The Looking glass guy is here can’t pronounce his name or spell it but I’ll look it up later. Rick Ross is kicking off the thing though from JavaLobby.

 

There are lots of folks here. 700 to 800 people from the rough chair count I did. There are 4 sections with about 10 chairs each row, 20 rows.

 

LookingGlass guy is up on state now, talking about looking glass and NetBeans. The dancing Gossling is a looking glass app. They are showing a bunch of apps running in LookingGlass. They started it from NetBeans, kind of cool.

 

Bunch of cool stuff with 3d environment. Hard to say if its really more productive but they are not saying that its really a productivity enhancement thing just yet. Instead it’s a place to experiment. Since its open source building apps on it should be cool and relatively easy.

 

Rick Ross – great guy.  170,000 members, JRoller – 8000 bloggers, 40,000 members on the myjavaserver.com.

 

3 things not to discuss in polite company, religion, politics, sex and oh yeah, Java IDE’s.

 

Intense competitive space, several companies. Competition has worked out well for us.

 

• NetBeans team is energized
• Software has improved radically
• Developer interest is strong
• Look around the room, it’s Sunday afternoon

 

NetBeans has endured

 

NetBeans IS community – NetBeans community takes feedback seriously and takes action

 

Distrust pundits – they don’t get new comers, carrying baggage from previous experiences

 

The Java developers of 5 years from now probably have not ever programmed in java today. Will we even be doing java in 5 years?

 

NetBeans has team stuff, mobile developers, empowers next-gen frameworks. Matisse could be the breakout.

 

• Give relentless feedback to the community
• Expect greatness, help build it
• Connect with the community

 

Next up is Jonathan Schwartz – demo of developer collaboration service share.java.net, coupled with the collab software in NB 4.1. Very cool looking. Todd Fast is collaborating with a buddy, they are looking at a file together. Very cool stuff, colab file sharing, dev chat, including voice (very cool). Very nice indeed. TS-7302 (coding across comments) going to show a new collab-let. Was built as part of JavaStudio now open sourced.

 

The Sun ‘s’ stands for ‘share’ – share creates the broadest community possible so it lifts all boats.

Why would os community would welcome Sun?

Why would the Braziliian govt would welcome Sun?

Why would the large financial customers join Sun?

 

JS asserts that Developers join things.

 

Digital divide is what Sun is all about.

 

Share is the key of Sun, its what the core of Sun is all about. Grow the broadest market possible, with that rising tide everyone will be raised.

 

Sun’s job is to make us want to choose their products, not try to force us into their product with some sort of proprietary hook.