NetBeans Podcast #55

Listen to the latest NetBeans News recorded by the NetBeans team for the NetBeans community. Visit the NetBeans Podcast blog.

Program

• Calendar: Java Performance Tuning with Kirk Pepperdine, and NetBeans Day in Munich
• New Java Magazine is looking for female contributors
• Congratulations to Jan Goyvaerts, the winner of Podcast Puzzler #54!

• A look back at NetBeans 7.0 with release boss Petr Jiricka, and a look ahead at what's coming up in NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 (July).

• A new segment to know the active faces behind the NetBeans community. First guest Alex Kotchnev is a Software Architect, a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, and served in the Bulgarian Navy! Find out how he got bitten by the programming bug, and why QA is a professional and personal topic.
• Learn more about Alex on his blog and Twitter

API Design Tip of the podcast with Jarda Tulach: Assemblable Types.

• What's cool and noteworthy in the revamped portal? A chat with Technical Community Manager Jirka Kovalsky.

• Deadline to submit the puzzler answer: June 20, 2011. Send to nbpodcast at netbeans dot org.