In collaboration with Sun, the Genova Java User Groups organizes a special event to celebrate NetBeans IDE’s tenth birthday.

The NetBeans Demo Camp will take place

• WHEN: tuesday 25/11/2008, from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm
• WHERE: location in central Genova (to be announced here in a short time)
• WHAT: a interactive presentation (with lots of live demos) of the NetBeans 6.5 latest features and of a range of related tools and technologies, including
  • NetBeans 6.5 by Fabrizio Giudici
  • Integrating JavaFX with Java by Giampaolo Melis of MoteNav fame
  • more NetBeans demos by JUGGenova

Participation is free to all; however, as we are expecting a larger audience this time, we do require everyone to register as soon as possible (also to help us identify a suitable venue) on

• http://jugevents.jugpadova.it/jugevents/event/show.html?id=9123

To receive updates on the event visit

• http://juggenova.net
• http://jugevents.jugpadova.it/jugevents/event/show.html?id=9123
• http://groups.google.com/group/jug-genova

The next meeting of the Genova JUG will take place on the 16th of September 2008 at DIST - Faculty of Engineering, Via Opera Pia 13, GENOVA (zona Albaro)

We will talk about:

* 70k code lines, architectural tangles and refactoring challenges (Paolo Predonzani)
* news and reports from Silicon Valley (Corrado Alesso)

A discussion of refactoring and design issues will follow.

Participation is free and open to all; if you plan to attend, please register on http://jugevents.jugpadova.it/jugevents/event/show.html?id=4575. Note: If you plan to join us for a pizza in a nearby place, please add “(pizza)” to your last name when registering.

To be notified of event updates see

• http://www.juggenova.net
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3592/
• http://jugevents.jugpadova.it/jugevents/event/show.html?id=4575

or join our mailing list on

• http://groups.google.com/group/jug-genova-announce

• http://groups.google.com/group/jug-genova

Ecco le slide della presentazione di Giovanni Lagorio su Google Web Toolkit che ha riscosso molto interesse all’ ultimo meeting (movimentato tra l’altro dalla presenza di ospiti internazionali :-)).

Per approfondire la conoscenza di GWT può essere molto utile la “Reference Card” di dzone.com, una specie di “Bignami” che sintetizza i principali concetti e costrutti di una tecnologia in un formato molto pratico da consultare: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/gwt-style-configuration-and-js

Sul sito di dzone.com, previa registrazione free, è possibile scaricare anche reference cards su Ajax, Flex, Rails, jQuery, GlassFish, Spring, Silverlight, Idea, Design Patterns, EJB3, Eclipse… e nuove card sono aggiunte ogni mese.

Il prossimo meeting si terrà martedi’ 16 settembre 2008. Location e argomenti verranno confermati a breve sul sito e sulla mailing list.

Cosa succede se si mettono insieme NASA World Wind, un telecomando del Wii, e un paio di led a infrarossi?

Giampaolo Melis lo ha fatto ed è riuscito a creare un sistema per navigare le mappe terrestri (quindi muoversi, zoomare, ruotare, ecc) semplicemente muovendo le mani davanti al monitor.

Spiega Giampaolo: “Il mio programma mi permette di gestire per ora 2 punti [nello spazio]. Una delle cose interessanti e’ che dopo un po’ che lo usi ti viene naturale. E’ un po’ come quando abbiamo imparato ad usare il mouse, subito preferisci usare la tastiera, ma dopo un po’ …”

Ecco una foto dei led…

… un’immagine del software Java mentre rileva la posizione di due led contemporaneamente…

… e un breve video dedicato al nostro JUG (su Vimeo).

Avremo il piacere di vedere una demo live di Giampaolo al prossimo incontro del JUG Genova il 15 Luglio 2008. Accorrete numerosi!

Questo post potrebbe sembrare un po’ off-topic, ma quando si tratta di così belle notizie, sono dettagli! Se non fosse abbastanza chiaro dal titolo, Carlo è diventato papà! (per i puristi… la getChildren() non restituisce liste vuote.. ;-))

Ci aveva preannunciato che avrebbe saltato il prossimo incontro del JUG per questo evento, ma si vede che il piccolo Andrea aveva fretta e voleva partecipare anche lui!

Congratulazioni da tutto il JUG!

Le slide del meeting di Maggio su Maven2 sono disponibili su slideshare:

We are happy to announce that the talk slides and demo screencasts, together with a full report of the event are online on the http://www.ideday.org website. A transcript of the final panel on the future of Java IDEs, as well as a photo gallery are also available.

(Per un resoconto in Italiano, vedi http://www.giampierogranatella.com/blog).

When last year Fabrizio Giudici “threw” the idea of organizing a follow-up to the very successful IDE shootout organized by the Cologne JUG, we were enthusiastic at first, then we took some time to evaluate the whole thing since our JUG is quite small… even if, on paper, the Genova JUG dates back to several years ago, it had become no more than a low participation mailing list until a new group of participants brought it back to activity in the beginning of 2007.

But the idea was fascinating, and so we decided to take this challenge… together with JUG Roma, which also was interested by the proposal, we invited representatives from the four major IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, JDeveloper); everyone was very interested and supportive, although, unfortunately, Eclipse was unable to participate because it was already involved in other events (including, obviously, EclipseCon) in the same period.

We decided that the event had to be less than a “confrontation” of the IDEs and more of a community event, where experts, developers and students could discuss the innovation and the future of Java development tools.

I think that this idea did resonate in many places, since we received significant (and absolutely necessary) support in organizing the IDE day not only from Sun, Oracle and JetBrains, from the Faculties of Engineering of Genova and Rome Universities, but also from the Open-Lab student association and O’Reilly UK.

Moreover, a number of local companies active in the Java development, traning and consulting areas were happy to support the event by offering a coffee break and, more importantly, by promoting the Java IDE Day among their employees and contacts: Eptamedia, Finsa Consulting, ManyDesigns, NIS and K-Tech.

The IDE day took place in Genova on the 10th of March and in Rome the following 12th. It definitely was a success: more than 200 developers attended it overall (130 in Genova and 70 in Rome). Beside the number, a positive result has been that everyone could appreciate three very interesting speakers showing not just very high quality technical content but more significantly, a lot of collaboration between them.

The talk slides and demo screencasts, together with a full report of the event are online on the http://www.ideday.org website. This report is in English and more focused on the Genova event; for more information on the Rome event you can visit Report on javaportal.it (in Italian). For a first-hand report in Italian see http://www.giampierogranatella.com/blog.

A transcript of the final panel on the future of Java IDEs, as well as a photo gallery are also available.

A big thank you again to all people and organizations who made the IDE Day a success, and particularly to Paolo, Angelo, Alessandro, Giampiero, Corrado A, Corrado L, Fabio, Fabrizio, Mara, Giorgio, and Carlo.