NetBeans Platform Trainers
NetBeans Platform trainers are found in many parts of the world
and, in each case, come with a lot of experience. Trainings can
be given in English, German, Czech, Polish, and Dutch.
A short biography
of each trainer is presented below.
Trainers from the NetBeans community
Gail & Paul Anderson. The Anderson Software Group offer their
own personalized
NetBeans Platform training course, which focuses on
introducing you to the core NetBeans APIs and concepts, as well as on the
integration and reuse of JavaFX components within NetBeans Platform applications.
Industry experts Paul Anderson
and Gail Anderson founded the company, located in the northern San
Diego county town of Encinitas. They have brought together instructors
with many years of experience in a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines
and specialize in teaching highly technical material in a relaxed and stimulating
environment. Paul and Gail are also the authors of
JavaFX Rich Client Programming on the NetBeans Platform.
Wade Chandler.
Wade Chandler is freelance software consultant living in Knoxville,
TN, and is also the President of C&L Tractor Parts, Inc
in Dandridge, TN. He is a long time contributor to the NetBeans project,
a NetBeans Dream Team member, and a past NetBeans board member.
He created a NetBeans Platform application for the South Carolina Department
of Health and Environmental Control used to trade environmental
data with the EPA and other information trading partners.
The DHEC project also used different NetBeans APIs such as Lookup
in the JEE server portion of the application to provide custom
plug-in and server support. Wade uses the NetBeans Platform for his
own projects and business management software, is the project owner
of platformx.netbeans.org,
and commonly helps other NetBeans Platform users on the
dev@openide.netbeans.org mailing list.
Anton Epple.
Anton Epple works as a Java consultant and trainer at
eppleton in Munich, Germany. He has
more than seven years of experience leading the development
of Java desktop applications. In the last two years Anton
has specialized in NetBeans Platform development and consulting
and since 2008 he's a member of the NetBeans Dream Team. As
an active member of the Open Source Community he's one of
the leaders of the JavaTools Community at
java.net where many NetBeans
related projects are hosted. Being also an author and
blogger, at http://www.eppleton.de/blog,
he's currently working
on a book about professional Java development using NetBeans.
Fabrizio Giudici.
Fabrizio Giudici is a Senior Java Architect running his own company,
Tidalwave, operating in northern Italy and
surroundings.
He's been in the Java business since 1998 and, beyond providing consultancy
services on architecture and design, he also serves as a technical
trainer for several Java-based classes delivered by Sun Microsystems.
Fabrizio's involvement with NetBeans is mainly with the Platform,
as he is developing blueMarine, a Platform-based application for
media management; he's also one of the founding members of the
NetBeans Dream Team and a speaker at conferences such as
JavaOne and Devoxx (former JavaPolis). Fabrizio is one of the
leaders of JUG Milano.
Chris Palmer.
Chris Palmer, based in Australia,
is an active NetBeans community member and NetBeans Platform Evangelist.
Chris brings deep experience delivering NetBeans Platform applications
for all size enterprises, from Fortune 500 companies to small research
organizations. Chris's integration of the Visual Library into
commercial applications won the Duke's Choice Award for 2008. His
experience with the NetBeans Platform dates back to Version 3.x.
Aljoscha Rittner.
Aljoscha Rittner works as CEO and Java Developer since 1997 in
Germany at Sepix. He started Java development with
the first Swing pack and has experience with NetBeans IDE since 2001. The
last two years he developed Java applications on the NetBeans
Platform. Additionally, he creates plugins for Java SE projects and
components for the Java ME Visual Designer. Aljoscha co-moderates the
German http://netbeans-forum.de and writes on platform
and IDE-specific development themes in his blog at
http://www.sepix.de/blogs/blogrittner/.
Zoran Sevarac.
Zoran Sevarac (aka Don Zorleone) is a lecturer at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences,
University of Belgrade, Serbia. He teaches courses on Java programming and Intelligent Systems.
He is also a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the same university and
the founder of the Neuroph project. Neuroph is one of the leading Java open source neural network
frameworks, and it also provides Neuroph Studio, which is the NetBeans Platform application for
neural network research. Zoran is the godfather of the local NetBeans
User Group Serbia.
Rich Unger.
Rich Unger is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at
Salesforce.com, currently working on Apex, a domain specific
language for their cloud computing platform. He lives in
the San Francisco Bay Area. He first became involved in
NetBeans around 2002, while working for Nuance Communications.
He was on a team developing modules to facilitate development
of VoiceXML-based Java EE applications. This was one of the earlier
efforts on the part of a non-Sun entity to develop a large
application on the NetBeans Platform. He wrote several tutorials
to help people newly approaching the platform, as well as hacking
the netbeans.org build scripts to provide a build harness for
module development. Later, he proposed and helped implement
changes to certain APIs, including the extensibility of project types.
Rich has spoken on the topic of NetBeans module development, along with
Jaroslav Tulach, Andrei Eickler, and Tim Boudreau several times
at JavaOne, and once at OOPSLA. He
has also contributed a chapter to the RCP book.
Tom Wheeler.
Tom Wheeler is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing in
St. Louis, Missouri, USA. In addition to software development, he is
also an author, instructor and frequent presenter at technical
conferences. Tom has been developing with the NetBeans Platform
almost daily since 2005 and has spoken at the JavaOne conference about
some of the applications he's created with it. He is very active in
the NetBeans community, helping to create examples, answer questions
and write FAQ entries to help others learn about the NetBeans
platform. Additionally, he is a member of the NetBeans Dream Team and
serves on the NetBeans governance board.
Thomas Wuerthinger.
Thomas Wuerthinger is a researcher and PhD student at the Institute for System
Software at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria. His main research
interests are virtual machines, modular programming, and visualization tools.
He developed a new array bounds check elimination algorithm for the Java HotSpot VM.
His Masters thesis was about a visualization tool based on the NetBeans Platform
called the Ideal Graph Visualizer. Currently, his focus is on development for the
meta-circular Maxine VM as well as on the implementation of dynamic software
updates for the HotSpot VM.
Trainers from the NetBeans Team
Jaroslav Tulach.
Jaroslav Tulach cofounded the NetBeans project
and remains a leading guardian of the project's APIs.
He coauthored "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the
NetBeans Platform" and is the
author of "Practical API Design: Confessions
of a Java Framework Architect".
Geertjan Wielenga.
Geertjan Wielenga is the writer on the NetBeans team
responsible for the official documentation,
such as tutorials, about the NetBeans Platform. He is one of the authors
of "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform" and has
contributed content to the materials for the NetBeans Platform
Certified Training. He is a regular blogger
at http://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan
and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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