NetBeans squashed button bug

For a while I've been having a problem with NetBeans 7.0.1 which is sometimes creating buttons that look squashed, like a sausage. I haven't noted a pattern that causes this bug to occur, but I finally found a solution. You have to Clean and Build Main Project (Shift+F11), and then the buttons will render correctly when you run the project.

Oracle buys Sun; Geocities to die soon; Ubuntu 9.04 released

A lot of stuff has happened this week, and keeping up to date with Slashdot is a good idea. Some highlights:

• On Monday 20th April, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems
• On Thursday 23rd April, MySQL split into two separate forks
  
• On Thursday 23rd April, Ubuntu 9.04 was released
• On Thursday 23rd April, Yahoo! announced the end of Geocities