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Tonight's St. Louis JUG meeting is a fun one. Tom Wheeler, the award winning member of the NetBeans community, was on hand to talk about the NetBeans Platform.

Tom is a very eloquent presenter. That, coupled with the fact that Tom has been using the NetBeans Platform for two years, made this presentation a valuable one. The presentation slides is available here. Here's one slide that will make you think:

Other tidbits from the meeting:

• JetBrains has generously offered IntelliJ IDEA licenses for the presenter and one lucky attendee.
• KForce, a local IT recruiting company, brought in delicious food, and also raffled off a pair St. Louis Cardinals tickets. They have several Java positions.
• In an informal survey, Jeff Brown asked about IDE usages. By show of hands, it seems that many people are using Eclipse, a smaller number are using IDEA, and a couple people are using NetBeans. Jeff then asked, "If Eclipse costs $450 a license and you can't see the source, would you still be using Eclipse?" One answered that if that is the case he would be using IDEA instead. Another asked back "Who's paying it?"