Fwd: [nbweekly] NetBeans News, a newsletter for the NetBeans community Issue # 672
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Project News
Sign Up for NetBeans Day Netherlands
The NetBeans Community invites you to a day of free sessions and workshops dealing with Java, JavaScript and Python, hosted by Oracle Netherlands in Utrecht on Thursday, 12 February 2015.
Partners
ZeroTurnaround
Watch this brand new YouTube clip by ZeroTurnaround, a NetBeans partner, about using JRebel with the NetBeans debugger. No more redeploys, rebuilds, or application restarts while coding! With JRebel, you can view code changes instantly.
Articles
JAXEnter: 10 Hottest, Most Debated Java Topics in 2014
On JAXEnter—an article on the top 5 features of NetBeans IDE 8, as well as an article on NetBeans-based software at NASA, have made it into the most popular articles of 2014!
InformIT: 20 Reasons Why You Should Move to JavaFX and the NetBeans Platform
On InformIT—read a great new article by Gail and Paul Anderson on the key advantages of JavaFX together with the NetBeans Platform.
Community
YouTube:
An easy way to get involved in the NetBeans community is to create a quick YouTube clip that highlights your 5 favorite NetBeans features! Here's a great example by Josh Juneau, author of several technical software books!
Tutorials
YouTube: Get Started with GitHub
Working with GitHub in NetBeans is easy. In this short screencast, learn the basic steps for pushing code to GitHub and retrieving it from there.
YouTube: Get Started with Knockout.js
With NetBeans, you have a great environment for developing JavaScript applications with the Knockout.js framework. In 2 minutes, learn how to get started.