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After several weeks, the long-awaited update to NetBeans 6.7, now with JavaFX support, is finally released to the general public.
As you may recall, it was our expert recommendation to NOT uninstall or replace your NetBeans 6.5/6.5.1 IDE if you are actively developing for the JavaFX platform, since it was not available as a feature in [...]
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Here’s a fun news bit, on the cusp of the upcoming FCS release of NetBeans 6.7:
Just when you thought you’d heard everything about declarative programming on the NetBeans platform… there’s the “rise” of Scheme, as both a dev language supported on NetBeans technology and as an implementation of an alternative NetBeans-based IDE on its own.
LambdaBeans is the [...]
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More than a year ago, we mentioned the TIOBE Index and how, despite being a popular scan of popular programming languages, is the creature of a commercial venture.
A few days ago, Tim Bunce discussed on his blog about how the TIOBE Index can be, and perhaps has been, gamed, primarily through having owners of various [...]
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Snipt!
No, this shouldn’t be confused with SnipSnap…
Snipt is a new Web-based service that has a promising slogan: “long-term memory for coders”. The premise of the offering is to allow coders (developers, programmers, enthusiasts, etc.) to store their code snippets online and, presumably, to also share them with others.
Clearly, Snipt has entered into the [...]
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Hey developers! Get your copies of the Windows beta version of Chrome now!
“Shhh! It’s a secret! Don’t tell anybody that you can get Chrome now!”
If you’re not interested in source code, please go back to our article about Chrome availability.
But: if you ARE a developer, you’re definitely going to want to read about this:
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The Setup
When discussing the PlayStation 3 Ubuntu Linux construct, I mentioned Sony’s previous attempt at a hobbyist kit for the PlayStation 2.
This is the story of that kit.
The Premise
On May 22, 2002, a limited release of an “enthusiast” developer product was released that converted a PlayStation 2 (with the original shell, not the [...]
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Yeah, yeah, I know, I know…
TIOBE Software is, in fact, a commercial software company.
However, they also manage the popularity contest/index for software programming languages called the “TIOBE Programming Community Index”.
It’s fun to see which languages are “hot” now, and which are becoming more and more obscure. Not to say that there’s a correlation between popularity [...]
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