Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Ralph, who you met yesterday in this blog, isn't the only recent hire in the NetBeans Team from outside the Czech Republic. Last September, Theofanis Oikonomou moved with his wife from Thessaloniki, in Greece, and now works on the NetBeans Team in Prague.Maybe Ralph was special in finding Prague and NetBeans to be a great place to work? For those considering joining the NetBeans Team too, let's get a second opinion from Theofanis. Hi Theofanis, so what's life like in Prague? Be...

Last May, Ralph Benjamin Ruijs joined the NetBeans Team. He moved with his girlfriend from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, to Prague, in the Czech Republic, and now works on the Java Editor team. Since Oracle is looking for more software engineers just like Ralph to work on the NetBeans Team, let's disturb Ralph in the middle of his homework exercises for his weekly Czech lesson (which you get for free when you join the NetBeans Team) and find out what's lying in wait for you...

It's amazing how many small and subtle tools NetBeans IDE 7.1 provides for Java EE 6 development. Here's a silent (maybe I'll add some explanatory voice over to it later, but there's something to be said for not having a voice to distract you, so that you're forced to look purely at the images and mouse movements) overview, whizzing through the key tools in NetBeans IDE 7.1 as an application is built up from scratch in just over 10 minutes: This is what happens in the movie,...

As promised recently, I've created a tutorial screencast where you'll learn how to help the user use your DSL by tokenizing and then registering colors per token, with this result at the end of the 26 minute movie below: Here it is on YouTube: Also viewable here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOwdeoOlZ7E

I recently created a very simplistic Gradle plugin for NetBeans IDE 7.1: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/41776/gradle This is how it works. Before getting started, make sure that you installation of NetBeans IDE supports Groovy. Then, install the plugin, and you'll see this: Then, after installing the plugin, before doing anything else, register your Gradle installation: Next, go to the New File dialog and choose the "Gradle Desktop Build Script": On the next page, make sure to...

...is now finished! The day started, as always at a conference, with a keynote, this time by Georges Saab, Vice President, Software Development, Java Platform Group at Oracle: The room was packed with around 800 attendees. A definite highlight for anyone with a NetBeans heart was this point in the keynote: Not a very clear photo, sorry for that, but the header of the slide is "IDE for the Java Platform". That's how NetBeans was presented by the Oracle VP of Software Development...

...hasn't started yet: Free event, tomorrow: http://javaone.ru/javaday/program/conference-program

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In the constructor of a TopComponent, add this: setOpaque(false); Then, if that doesn't work, it means that the parent of the TopComponent also needs to have opacity set to false. So override the "addNotify" method of the TopComponent. In that override, include this: JComponent parent = (JComponent)getParent();parent.setOpaque(false);