{"id":821,"date":"2008-05-27T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T05:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-05-27T00:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T05:15:46","slug":"students-opensolaris-netbeans-blogging-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/27\/students-opensolaris-netbeans-blogging-contest","title":{"rendered":"Students: OpenSolaris, NetBeans blogging contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you would have recently noticed, I&#8217;ve started playing around (I can&#8217;t really say using, seeing that its still not a daily basis kind of thing for me yet) with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensolaris.com\/\">OpenSolaris<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netbeans.org\/\">NetBeans<\/a>. Now, Sun is encouraging students to use, review, and blog about these two great products &#8211; check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/products-n-solutions\/reviews\/studentzone\/contest.jsp\">student reviews contests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not tried OpenSolaris 2008.05, you should probably give it a twirl. Sure, I&#8217;ve not installed it on bare metal hardware yet (I&#8217;ve been travelling so much, I&#8217;m not anywhere near machines), but it works fine inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\">VirtualBox<\/a>. NetBeans is great if you&#8217;re writing Java, Ruby, PHP, and are connecting to a database &#8211; Connector\/J for MySQL is shipped with it. If you were trying it out, take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/02\/netbeans-61-with-glassfish-mysql-bundle\">NetBeans+GlassFish+MySQL bundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, students out there, take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/products-n-solutions\/reviews\/studentzone\/contest.jsp\">Student Reviews Contest<\/a>. You have till <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/products-n-solutions\/reviews\/studentzone\/contest.jsp\">June 6, 2008<\/a>. There&#8217;s your chance to win anywhere between $100-$250 (USD?), which really means a lot of beer ;)<\/p>\n<p>(and here&#8217;s hoping we run something similar when MySQL 5.1 is GA&#8230; we used to run bug finding contests where we used to give away iPod Nano&#8217;s, though I think Visa Debit Card&#8217;s are so much more useful than iPod&#8217;s&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you would have recently noticed, I&#8217;ve started playing around (I can&#8217;t really say using, seeing that its still not a daily basis kind of thing for me yet) with OpenSolaris and NetBeans. Now, Sun is encouraging students to use, review, and blog about these two great products &#8211; check out the student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,141,140,143,81],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-contest","tag-netbeans","tag-opensolaris","tag-students","tag-sun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}