The slides look good to me Ken. I did have my history of NetBeans and Forte confused, so thank you for that.
Was there another IDE that was targeted at something specific, perhaps web development? Sun Java Studio Creator? Did it leverage NB or Forte? Just curious. I liked (and still do) NetBeans way back when I first started using it. I was an (original) JBuilder guy. Once it went to Eclipse, which I always found hard to keep stable depending on which plugins I added, JBuilder jumped the shark IMHO. Intellij IDEA is an IDE I would like to like but I have never found it to be as intuitive as NetBeans (and I would include quite a few IDEs in the intuitive list as well). Not suggesting you start an IDE war...just my thoughts. :) Nice work. Thank you for your efforts. Carl On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:21 PM Kenneth Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > Geertjan has recommended that I make my presentation on NetBeans that I > will be giving at ApacheCone available to everyone on this list for comment > and suggestion. He has already made some suggestions that I have > incorporated. Here is the link to a DropBox folder were you can find a > pptx, odp and pdf version of the same slides. > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xx2u18hti0cgfz9/AABSPXOP620d_GNR-EA7bQtPa?dl=0 > > > > Send comments to this group or directly to me at > [email protected] > > > > I don’t want to bore my audience with too much background. I was thinking > of downloading and running Praxis as a demo of NetBeans as a platform. I > especially want suggestions for what I should be showing off about NetBeans > in the 50 minutes that I have. I always like to stress Maven and easy > database and server management. I also talk about the amount of technical > support I need to provide to my students by pointing out the complexity in > IntelliJ and Eclipse. I don’t bad mouth the other tools, I just point out > that in my opinion using NetBeans is more natural, especially for a > developer just starting out. > > > > I am testing this last theory by allowing my students this term to use any > of the three IDEs. They have never seen NetBeans before. They have used > Eclipse. Slowly and a few at a time every day they are abandoning IntelliJ > and Eclipse because they are getting in the way of their coding. > > > > I look forward to your comments. Also, if you haven’t already done so > please follow me on Twitter where I make pithy and annoying observations on > programming and Java. I also want to embarrass my students by being more > plugged into social media than they are. You can also follow me on > Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. > > > > *Ken Fogel* > > > > [image: ken_220_220] > > Co- Chairperson and Co-Program Coordinator > > Computer Science Technology > > Dawson College > > 3040 Sherbrooke St. W > > Westmount, Quebec > > H3Z 1A4, Canada > > Tel: 514-931-8731 x 4799 > > [image: twitter] <https://twitter.com/omniprof> > > [image: Dawson 50 white on blue] > > > > > -- Carl J. Mosca
