On 11-04-2017, geertjan wielenga wrote: >Hey Matthew! > >Are you coming to the event this year: > >https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/netbeans-day-2017-registration-32048704538 > >And would you like to say a few words at it about your experiences >with NetBeans, etc? > >Kind regards, > >Geertjan Wielenga > > >Geertjan Wielenga | Principal Product Manager >Phone: +31620320056 | >OracleDeveloper Tools > >ORACLE Netherlands | Hertogswetering 163-167 | 3543 AS Utrecht | Netherlands >Oracle is committed to developing >practices and products that help protect the environment > > >On 5-6-2016 13:11, Matthew Lemon wrote: >>Hi Geertjan, >> >>Thanks for the email and more than happy that for my tweet to be >>used to promote Netbeans! >> >>It's fair to say that Netbeans Day in London was something of a >>landmark for me, for the following reasons: >> >>1. You may remember our conversation where I said that I had come >>from a Python background and was considering going with Java for my >>current project, largely based on using Netbeans and exploring the >>language and tools from there. Well the sessions only served to push >>that possibility forward more strongly. I have since been exploring >>JAX-RS, Jersey, Hibernate, etc for building a REST service and >>although there is a bit more work to do before I dexide, I'm >>currently very excited about the possibilities here. >> >>2. Oracle JET! For the front end, I always knew it would have to be >>JavaScript application of some sort but I hadn't really considered >>JET for this, but your presentation (and stuff I've since found on >>your blog) is again really exciting. It seems to tick all the boxes >>right now in that it suits the type of application I need to build, >>plus the Netbeans integration is a given. >> >>3. Finally, the community! Everyone was so enthusiastic, >>knowledgeable and friendly without being over the top about it. The >>day had a low-key quality to it that I loved and it seems to be that >>Oracle are doing something right supporting you in doing your thing >>around the world to develop and support the use of this brilliant >>application. >> >>In terms of feedback, other than point 3 above - I did find that a >>couple of the sessions did descend into too much detail about the >>language/framework used for the project rather than Netbeans: >>thinking of the Angular, TypeScript, Netbeans session and the live >>coding session in particular. Really interesting stuff, but didn't >>really do justice to Netbeans itself. I can imagine it's a really >>difficult balance to get right - don't get me wrong, I loved the >>sessions, but I'd have liked to have seen more about Netbeans >>capabilities for supporting these projects. >> >>Maybe next year I could come back and talk about my experience of >>using Netbeans, Java and Oracle JET from the perspective of a newbie >>to all these tools, and how they helped me deliver a project for the >>UK Government! A long way to go before that mind you... But I'll >>keep you in touch. >> >>I hope this is useful. Please keep up the good work, I do so enjoy >>reading your blog, tweets and other stuff. Hopefully will see you >>again next year in London if not before somewhere that. >> >>All the best, >>Matt >> >>PS Thanks to you and the other guys for making the content available >>on Github. >> >>On 5 June 2016 08:56:27 BST, geertjan wielenga >> wrote: >> >> Hi Matt, >> >> Great to meet you at NetBeans Day UK. >> >> I was looking through your Tweets this morning and found a rather >> good one about NetBeans, so posted it on the NetBeans Facebook page: >> >> https://www.facebook.com/NetBeans/ >> >> :-) Thanks a lot -- and see you again. >> >> >> Geertjan Wielenga | Principal Product Manager >> Phone: +31620320056 | >> OracleDeveloper Tools >> >> ORACLE Netherlands | Hertogswetering 163-167 | 3543 AS Utrecht | >> Netherlands >> Oracle is committed to >> developing practices and products that help protect the environment >> >> > -- Matthew Lemon Email: matt@matthewlemon.com Phone: 07841677965