NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue #138

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NetBeans Weekly News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community
Issue #138 - Oct 21, 2003
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/2003-10-21.html
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/**nbannounce*/

The latest and greatest announcements surrounding NetBeans include:

Sun Launches Open Source and Commercial Java Tools for Chinese 
Developers. The official press release came at the Sixth Annual Java
Convention which took place in Beijing, China. There is now a 
Chinese mailing list - [email protected] and the latest 
version of Sprout 15 available in Simplified Chinese.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=598337&listName=nbannounce

The Jerson's Java IDE poll wants to know what IDE people are using.
Take a second of your time and vote for NetBeans!
http://datadino.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4

/**nbusers*/

The realm of knowledge and infinite wisdom for nbusers. In the last 
week there have been conversations concerning:

New GUI?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=597783&listName=nbusers

Where can you increase the font size of the menus and toolbars for 
Linux (SuSE)?
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/faqs/configuration.html#FAQ_6

/**nbdev*/

Vita has synchronized projects prototype build with main trunk (tag 
merged-to-projects-2003-Oct-14). The projects build now includes all
modules from stable configuration in main trunk except ...:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=598683&listName=nbdev

Lookup visualization & debugging - Jesse Glick has improved the 
support for Lookup in the dev version of apisupport's Bean Browser.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=598799&listName=nbdev

/**nbmarketing*/

Sprout 16 is just around the corner. Submit any suggestions or 
stories that you may be working on to [email protected] by 
October 29th.  Sprout 16 will be exported to community translators 
on Monday, November the third and sent to [email protected] on
November tenth. Better hussle.

A big thank you goes out to: Alex Lau, Milos Kleint, Tsai PiChan, 
Wang Yi, Yang Yu, Xu, Zhijiong, HanSoon, Li Zongliang, Ming Dong and
Team, along with anybody else that may have been missed for all of 
the work completed in helping to make the NetBeans visit to China
successful. 
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This issue of NetBeans Weekly News was instantiated by Robert Demmer.
Next week issue's chief editor will be Maxym Mykhalchuk.
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