Last week was the last one I spent on the NetBeans project and in the Sun Microsystems. I said goodbye after more than four years. I must say it was pleasure to work with all those smart people, interesting projects, vietnamese town lunches, JavaOne visits and incredible pessimism of abadea :-)
Anyway, I decided to find new cheese and I’ll spend most of my time in the next months hacking server part of currently 2-tiered DB-Swing application. I’m really curious to see how I’ll get used to permanent work-from-home and new server-side coding after such a long time spent mostly with the Java SE.
Now, what will happen with Groovy/Grails support in NetBeans? No worries, Petr Hejl is taking over and I must say that the code is in the best hands you could imagine. I am really looking forward NetBeans 7 (or whatever the version will be) and its Groovy/Grails features.
While speaking about Grails, I’m still wondering when the moment of disillusionment will come to me? I spent some significant time on one Grails-based web application, and ‘Wow!’ is still the only interjection I can use!
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Martin, may your new cheese be delicious! If you liked doing webapps with Grails you will surely love hacking desktop apps with Griffon ;-)
Cheers,
Andres
Martin, good luck for your next adventures!
And don’t forget that the best cheeses can be found in France, so if you come around… don’t hesitate ;-)
All the best Martin!
-Rohan
Martin,
it was a pleasure working with you! Good luck on your next chapter.
Shocking! However, best wishes for your future work, and community would surely miss you :)
Sorry to see you go, Martin. Good luck!
Ted
Best luck Martin, and thanks for your contributions to NetBeans! Even if you’re going to work on the server side, glad to know it’s still a Swing application ;-)
It was a pleasure to work with you. All the best for the future!