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What's New
24-Sep: NetBeans Interviews : Marko Boger
21-Sep: Open APIs Tutorial contributed!
10-Sep: NetBeans Interviews : Roman Stanek
28-Aug: The a11y module
27-Aug: NetBeans Interviews : Iwan Eising
24-Aug: New HOWTO Contribution : Write an application around the NetBeans Core
21-Aug: New modules : cpp and externaleditor
14-Aug: Recent new modules : freestylebrowser and translatedfiles
14-Aug: New HOWTO Contribution : Integrating NetBeans with JBoss
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NetBeans Newsletter
01-Oct: Issue 35
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Recent Contributions
17-Sep: vcscvs Filesystems Compatibility
07-Sep: Filecopy - now a module
05-Sep: CORBA Support - now a module
29-Aug: Lexer - now a module
24-Aug: Database Admin tool - now a module
20-Aug: Diff Tool - now a module
17-Aug: Basic support for C/C++/Fortran - Sources. Now a module
16-Aug: External Editor Support. Sources
15-Aug: Minex5 beta
07-Aug: Terminal emulator, also see the proposal
20-Jun: JRenderer and Xbrowser, for the new netbrowser module
02-Jun: DB Tool Module
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Cool Links
20-Sep: Forte for Java wins "Editors choice" at Web 2001 Conference
28-Aug: Commercial software development based on open source technology : Chat Transcript
13-Aug: JavaMagazin.de reviews NetBeans (in german)
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Current Builds
22-AugNetBeans 3.2.1
27-SepQ-Build-200109270100_qbe1
04-OctDevelopment-200110040910
Site Statistics
Last week's activity :
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 1560 commits
 686 bugs changed
 477 list posts
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IDE Tip of the Day
If you would like all of the IDE's windows to held inside a single frame, you can switch to MDI mode by choosing Tools -> Setup Wizard and clicking the MDI radio button.
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