NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #28

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Issue #28 - August 13, 2001
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General news:

- New board nominations are underway.  Nominate yourself or your colleagues by
responding to the thread on nbdiscuss.  We already have one nomination -- Chris
Webster.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=130538&listName=nbdiscuss>
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=140002&listName=nbdiscuss>

- The NetBeans Interviews continue -- the next one will be with Yarda Tulach 
(the NetBeans Chief Architect) today.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=136313&listName=nbdev>


Contributions:

- Vincent Brabant has started a module which will help with the translation of
NetBeans.  He is working on the French translation and Vlad Koval is 
interested in doing a Russian translation.  Read about it and the discussion of
how the files should be organized to facilitate the translation effort in this
thread:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139562&listName=nbdev>


Under development:

- Release candidate 2 for 3.2.1 is available:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139798&listName=nbdev>

- Development builds are now being archived:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139753&listName=nbdev>

- The performance effort is going strong!  Here are just a few of the threads:
	- Xerces - is it too slow?  Should we replace it for certain tasks?
	 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=136084&listName=nbdev>
	 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=141060&listName=nbdev>

	- Progress is being made on eagerly initialized components.  We'd like 
to do
	even more.  This ultimately led to a discussion on what should be done 
with
	the Object Browser:
	 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139802&listName=nbdev>

	- A nice summary of startup performance was posted by Ales Novak:
	 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139720&listName=nbdev>

- Design of projects is still storming, or, as Yarda called it, a "storm of
brains" =).  Read the updated design, some responses, and a very nice summary
posted by Pavel:
 <http://projects.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=138165&listName=dev>
 <http://projects.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139782&listName=dev>
 <http://projects.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139920&listName=dev>

- Drag and Drop is available in the Explorer, but it's not for those faint of
heart.  Thanks to David Strupl, Dafe Simonek, and Enno Sandner:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139886&listName=nbdev>

- Utility methods for properly escaping strings have been added to XMLUtil:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=139737&listName=nbdev>


Other interesting discussions:

- They say competition is healthy, eclipse is another IDE platform on the
horizon.  Read more at
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=140493&listName=nbdev>
 <http://www.eclipsecorner.org>

- Michael Ruflin published a document on how to getting started with NetBeans. 
It led to a very interesting discussion including one on some of the different
roles for involvement.
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=140163&listName=nbdiscuss>

- Is the Tools->Options menu a mess?  Read the discussion at:
 <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=140665&listName=nbui>


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