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[Coding the Architecture] Just a short note to plug a handful of sessions that Kevin and I are presenting at the upcoming Software Architect 2008 conference, 3rd-5th June, London. 1. Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect The first is a re-run of our ...
Sun's Creator product to be free
One year on from it's first demo and Project Rave (now known as Creator) has been released. The demo this year worked a treat and it looks like a really polished product. There was an interesting comment about how Creator is built on top of a tried and tested development environment (i.e. NetBeans) and how other tools aren't. I couldn't work out if they were trying to imply something about Eclipse et al.
The other cool announcement about Creator is that it's free and this is a great way for Sun to try and attack the "corporate developer" market that tools like Visual Basic have such a hold over. For $99 ($49.95 for conference attendees) you can get a subscription to a whole bunch of extra stuff about Creator including code samples, docs, tips, code, etc.