Masoud Kalali's Blog

Last year I wrote a wish list and prediction for 2012 and this year I am going to do the same for 2013. So for 2013 in technology realm specially when focused on Java is as follow: Java SE 8 will be an awesome release despite the Jigsaw setback. Java EE 7 will bring more [...]

It is long since last I blogged and I go forward I find less and less time to put into tech blogging. I thought to post in my blog that I will be presenting three sessions in Java one along or accompanying another speaker.  As you may expect two sessions evolve around security and one session covers [...]

I have been using NetBeans for a long time now; Because it is easy to use, easy to understand and explain to others, it has impressive Java EE support, etc. I was working on Java EE projects or projects  involving NetBeans RCP applications with 40-50 modules (1m loc or so) which are considered small applications. [...]

I almost stopped blogging during 2011 because of lots of complications I was dealing with but this entry is something I couldn’t just pass over. Hopefully I will resume blogging during 2012 as actively as I was doing during late 2009 and early 2010. My predictions for 2012 in technology realm specially when focused on Java [...]

Identity, something that we hear more often these days with the whole web 2.0 and social services and more and more web based public services growing around us. The identity notion is an integral part of a security system in distributed services. Developing effective software system require an effective security and access control system which [...]

In this article I will go through number of NetBeans IDE active users count from Jan 2004 to June 2011