NetBeans Podcast 68 - Java 8 and Angular Support in NetBeans

Podcast Guests: Brett Ryan (John Sands), Andreas Stefik (University of Nevada), Petr Pisl (NetBeans)

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NetBeans Community News with Geertjan and Tinu

• NetBeans 8.0 Beta was released in January; we read out "favorite" tweets that caught our attention: AndrewDyster, dipetr, ErazoZamudioEd.
• The NetBeans Partners page is revamped! Check it out for a listing of companies that are extending NetBeans with plugins and services.
• Congratulations to the 21st NetBeans Governance Board members: Tim Boudreau, Zoran Sevarac and Ashwin Rao!
  • How did the outgoing Board do in its year-long term? Score Card: NetBeans Governance Board #20
• Calendar: Vaadin-NetBeans Webinar in April

11:25 - Community Interview: Brett Ryan on Java 8 and NetBeans IDE

Australian developer Brett Ryan (John Sands) wrote a blog entry about experimenting with JDK 8 features in NetBeans. We stumbled across the post, liked it, and invited him to tell us more about his experience.

• Brett's blog entries: Migrating to JDK 8 with NetBeans, The Power of the Arrow
• Tutorial: Java SE 8 - Lambda Quick Start
• Video: How to Migrate to JDK 8

17:57 - Community Interview: Andreas Stefik on the Quorum Programming Language

What makes a programming language more intuitive or a headache to learn? Find out as Andreas Stefik (a return guest!) chats about Quorum, the world's first evidence-oriented programming language. Quorum grew out of Andreas' and his team's work on Sodbeans, a NetBeans-based programming environment for visually impaired developers. Interest in Quorum and its intuitive syntax is growing and the team's recent academic paper (#3 on the page: "An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax") sheds new light on the "language wars".

• Are you interested in learning about Quorum and how to teach it? Sign up to attend EPIQ: International Experience Programming in Quorum workshop (July 2014)
• Related articles: 
• Quorum 2.0 - Designing a Human Friendly Programming Language
• Sodbeans Wins JavaOne 2011 Duke's Choice Award

38:45 - Petr Pisl on AngularJS Support in NetBeans IDE

Our HTML5 segment series continues with Petr Pisl, a software engineer on the NetBeans team. He joins the podcast to update us on AngularJS support in NetBeans 8.

• New & Noteworthy with AngularJS support in NetBeans 8.0
• Video Series: AngularJS for Busy Developers (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
• Video: AngularJS Meets Java EE

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