Well the NetBeans folks are celebrating the NetBeans 10th birthday. One event they are running as part of the celebration is the NetBeans Decathlon which features a set of 10 events that can be used to build up points to get a t-shirt.  There are plenty of other things at the birthday page and I’d encourage any netbeans users to check it out.

If you are a developer that isn’t using NetBeans now – I’d encourage you to check it out.  It has really grown up a lot, especially in the last 2 or 3 years and has really become a top notch IDE. It does so much more than just JAVA and it does all of it very well.  It is also an excellent application platform of its own. There is a lot there. I firmly believe that everyone has to find what works best for them, but I also think that one is really missing out if they don’t give NetBeans a thorough look over.