Most of friends are good at Java recommended Eclipse to me as my main IDE for Java. There are a lot of plug-ins, such as spring IDE. But I still feel more comfortable to use NetBeans. Because I spent some time using Netbeans many may years ago. Morover, I felt NetBeans is more similar with Visual Studio, that seems to be more C# programmer Friendly. As a C# programmer, so I choose it. Besides, Netbeans support Spring MVC3 and Hibernate which are the frameworks I need to use. It can fulfill what I need. Thus, NetBeans is my choice!

Finally, I completed Android Notepad Tutorial. It helps me to understand SQLite database in android. Moreover, it shows how to do some advance UI, such as ListView. I recommended all Android Newbie need to read it!

I am design the architecture of my android app now. At this stage, I am considering the interface between my app and the server. I am thinking to use the XML SOAP protocol. This is because the XML is very heavy weighted. There are Extra text in xml , such as "". So, I choose to JSON. Because that used less text. Moreover, I think JSON is good to de-serialize in Java. But GlasshFish does not come with JSON webservice by default. I have to use some extra package. I need to learn in Java!

I have upgraded my Skype in android this week. I found there is a big improvement. The uer interface is much much nicer. Finally, it got a home screen, rather than a simple contact list style window. Moreover, now, I can send sms in there too! That is so great!

I had a quick look of Google Plus. I found that is a mixture of Facebook and Google Wave. You can put your contacts into different circles.You can get the friends' update from the circle. That is very similar in Facebook, you can put friends into the group. Another main feature of Google Plus is chatting. You can form a circle (group) to chat. That sounds like Google Weave. Just now, they don't call it weave, calls it circle!

Those features are interesting, I may try it out in the future.