A selection of news highlights, current newsletters and featured articles from netbeans.org, opensource IDE and application backplane http://www.netbeans.org/index.html en webmaster@netbeans.org (NetBeans webmaster) http://www.netbeans.org/images/v5/nb-logo.gif http://www.netbeans.org/index.html 110 30 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:12:43 +0200 http://www.netbeans.tv/screencasts/Jeff-Hoffman-explains-the-JavaFX-designer-developer-workflow.-378/ User Experience Designer Jeff Hoffman shows how to use the features of Project Nile, which include export plugins for Adobe products, an SVG graphic converter, a JavaFX graphics viewer, and samples. http://activecodeline.com/2008/08/15/netbeans65-php-edition/ PHP Developer Branko tries out the PHP download of NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta and finds that when it comes to code completion, NetBeans has all the bases covered! http://netbeans.dzone.com/articles/netbeans-ide-65-beta-offers-bu Discover how NetBeans IDE 6.5's support for PHP can help PHP developers with their programming needs. http://www.jasperforge.org/jaspersoft/opensource/business_intelligence/ireport/ JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite includes the world's most popular commercial open source BI products. NetBeans developers can use the JasperReports reporting library to enable their solutions with pixel-perfect, ready-to-print reports. http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/index.html#1278 What does the 'tween' keyword do? Why did the JavaFX language designers favor multiple inheritance over interfaces? Can you mix Swing and graphics components in JavaFX? Read the answers to these and a wide variety of other questions in the transcript of the recently-held Ask the Experts session on the JavaFX Preview. http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/ruby/java-ruby.html This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Java API in Rails applications. http://www.netbeans.tv/screencasts/PHP-in-NetBeans-IDE-6.5-377/ Set up the WordPress sources as a NetBeans project and write a simple plugin for WordPress. The plugin will look through content of displayed blog entries to replace the word "NetBeans" with a link to the NetBeans.org site. http://wiki.netbeans.org/SimpleGUIBasedParser Learn how to create a NetBeans plugin that opens in a window of its own. To add functionality to the GUI we implement a little parser using the StringTokenizer class. http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2008-09-01.html http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-28.html http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/chrome_fixed_woodstock http://eppleton.com/blog/?p=201 http://blogs.sun.com/branajam/entry/welcome_community_docs_evangelists