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Submission + - NetBeans 7.0 is Now Available (netbeans.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @05:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: Oracle releases NetBeans IDE 7.0 which introduces language support for development to the proposed Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 developer preview. The release also provides enhanced integration with the Oracle WebLogic server, as well as support for Oracle Database and GlassFish 3.1. Additional highlights include Maven 3 and HTML5 editing support; a new GridBagLayout designer for improved Swing GUI development; enhancements to the Java editor, and more.

Comment Re:Questionable testing method (Score 1) 258

by LongSpleen on Friday January 21, 2011 @02:59PM (#34956960) Attached to: Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe

er know NOT to eat...

Comment Re:Questionable testing method (Score 1) 258

by LongSpleen on Friday January 21, 2011 @02:57PM (#34956928) Attached to: Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe

I hope his friends know now to eat frozen foods at his house. "This ice pop has a flavor I can't put my finger on"

Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain 270

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 25, 2010 @12:12PM from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.

ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"

Comment Re:Non-lethal is perhaps a greater threat (Score 1) 314

by LongSpleen on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @03:58PM (#30836546) Attached to: Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters

Non-violent protest actually relies on the brutality of governmental response to provoke sympathy and garner support for one's cause.

I would hope that a just cause is capable of getting a following by means other than sympathy.

Antarctic's First Plane, Found In Ice 110

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @10:11AM from the ice-tractor-cometh dept.

Arvisp writes "In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. The plane – the first off the Vickers production line in Britain – was built in 1911, only eight years after the Wright brothers executed the first powered flight. For the past three years, a team of Australian explorers has been engaged in a fruitless search for the aircraft, last seen in 1975. Then on Friday, a carpenter with the team, Mark Farrell, struck gold: wandering along the icy shore near the team's camp, he noticed large fragments of metal sitting among the rocks, just a few inches beneath the water."

Haskell 2010 Announced 173

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:05PM from the eddie-and-the-beav dept.

paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."

Comment Random suggestions (Score 1) 558

by LongSpleen on Monday September 01, 2008 @12:01PM (#24831375) Attached to: Java, Where to Start?

As part of your core library study be sure to get a solid grasp on the Collections framework. It makes dealing with common data structures much easier.
If you don't have a specific need for it I wouldn't put Swing very high on the list. If you do need it, be sure to include some related technologies that are making it easier to deal with. Probably the most frustrating part of Swing (at least with moderately complicated UIs) is dealing with the layout. MigLayout is a modern third-party layout manager that makes the process easier. The emerging JavaFX Script stuff takes a different approach by making all the UI code declarative.
JPA is really nice for setting up your data access layer. The latest versions of Hibernate allow you to use JPA annotations rather than xml config files.
Netbeans and Eclipse are both nice but Netbeans is easier to start with. Eclipse requires some extra steps that don't feel very intuitive at first.
Spring is very very cool.
JMS is very commonly used in projects where messaging is required so I'd probably include that.

I haven't primarily been a JEE developer so others can give better advice on some of those technologies.

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