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A while ago, I wrote about the new NetBeans IDE \/ BlueJ Edition. Well, no piece of software can stand on alone on its own \u2013 it also needs support from documentation, background information, tutorials, and ideally a user community to really take off. The second useful link is the latest Sun Developer Network Channel webcast<\/a>. This has a short video giving you the buzzword-compliant ‘executive overview’ perspective (a bit of marketing has never hurt anyone, has it?), but maybe more importantly, lists a good selection of links to all sorts of useful related resources in it’s ‘Show Notes’ section on the web page.<\/p>\n But be quick \u2013 the webcast will disappear from the page some time in the future. A permalink to the video is here<\/a>, but the ‘Show Notes’, I believe, will disappear once this story falls off the front page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A while ago, I wrote about the new NetBeans IDE \/ BlueJ Edition. Well, no piece of software can stand on alone on its own \u2013 it also needs support from documentation, background information, tutorials, and ideally a user community … Continue reading
\nSun have now released two more pieces in this puzzle: A very nice article<\/a> and a webcast<\/a> on the Sun Developer Network.<\/p>\n
\nThe first bit of useful information comes from Dana Nourie, a Technical Writer for Sun Microsystems, who has written many useful and well researched articles in the past. In her latest contribution to Sun’s ‘Developer Technical Articles’ she writes extensively<\/a> and clearly about BlueJ, NetBeans, and the NetBeans\/BlueJ edition. If you want to find out what this is all about and how to use it, this is now probably the best introduction available.<\/p>\n