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In my situation (30+ years into a software engineering career), one thing I plan for is reduced income in the future. Because of that, I've taken up gardening in recent years. I figure that as my income drops, I can replace some of the lost dollars by purchasing seeds and working the land (we're fortunate to own some acres of it) to produce vegetables and fruit, rather than having to pay for those items at the grocery store (we have a dehydrator, a chest freezer -- yes, we're going all in on this).
Now, it turns out that NetBeans may be of assistance to me in this endeavor. Because Geertjan Wielenga has discovered a NetBeans-based tool for gardeners! He writes about it in his recent post Climate Monitoring in Denmark on the NetBeans Platform:
Next on our endless journey through all the world's NetBeans Platform applications is the Climate Monitor created at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark. Here's a screenshot:
Further description from the Climate Monitor site:
Climate Monitor is a generic platform for analyzing various plant processes, climate factors and keeping quality of greenhouse plants. The program is designed such that it allows easy integration of new analysis models and new sources of data. It has among others been used for analyzing the optimal use of supplementary lighting.
Now, if you've never grown vegetables yourself, you may not understand the impact of things like too many rainy days in early summer, too little light, too much wind as you're nursing your baby plants in early spring, etc. Last year was a partial disaster for gardeners in my region (Southern New England, U.S.) because May and June had so much rain that many root plants simply didn't grow and a blight spread across the region, killing enormous amounts of tomatoes (including about half of ours). The tomato blight also caused a huge increase in the cost of tomatoes in stores, and caused some restaurants to do things like serve BLTs (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwiches) that had no "T" in them (my daughter found it both curious and annoying when she received one such T-less BLT as partial payment for one of her music performances).
Anyway, I do plan to have a greenhouse some day. And I'm happy to find that NetBeans and the Climate Monitor will be there to help me manage it when I get it!
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