Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

It is alive! I downloaded the eBook, which is now available, and the actual book itself will now also be shipped to you: Go here to buy yours and attain a step-by-step guide to creating a new modular Swing application on the NetBeans Platform.

As a generic application framework for large modular Swing applications, the NetBeans Platform has seen a significant number of developments recently. In order of importance, in my humble opinion:Eclipse RCP/NetBeans Platform: The Real Story. Edvin Syse explains the differences as they really are, in an article that continues to stand solidly, despite those that tried to argue against it: Why I Moved from Eclipse RCP to the NetBeans Platform. What I appreciate about the...

In part 1, you were introduced to an energy consumption analysis application created on the NetBeans Platform at the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain. Today I received several more screenshots from Pablo Estrada, of the latest state of the application, which lets the designer create a residential area composed of a perimeter, plots, streets, and buildings. The streets divide the perimeter surface into different plots where the user can drag and drop buildings, after which...

Missed Thursday's SkillsMatter "In The Brain" session where I talked about the NetBeans Platform in London? Not to worry, here it is, recorded and ready for you to watch: Either click the image above or the link below to start watching the presentation: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/the-netbeans-platform The whole presentation from beginning to end is about 90 minutes in length. From about the 70th minute, you see NetBeans Dream Team member Tim Dudgeon from ChemAxon ...

YouTube movie on a competition timing application: The application is created on top of the NetBeans Platform, providing its infrastructure, such as modularity, lifecycle management, and window system. For $50, the application is yours, from Pursuit Timing.

You read the title correctly, yes, you can even start a dog daycare center on the NetBeans Platform. For, after all, dogs deserve a vacation too. (Every dog has its day.) And, of course, you need to calculate whether it makes sense for your pocket to start a dog daycare center. Worry no more, here's the dog daycare center profit and growth simulator of your dreams: http://www.pawsdogdaycare.com/Start-Up-Services/simulatorbiz.htm Here are two of the screenshots you'll see if you...

I have been an avid user of Ubuntu for a few years now, (here's a list of blogs I wrote about my experiences with Ubuntu). Over the last few weeks, I managed to experience both the very best and the very worst of what it means to be an Ubuntu user. It all started when my Hardy Heron (8.04) installation became increasingly sluggish. But then, you never know what the reason is for sluggishness, i.e., especially browser usage, typing something in the browser window and then...

The biggest challenge in the IntelliJ IDEA plugin for NetBeans RCP development is... getting the classpath right. And providing tools for IntelliJ IDEA for users of the plugin to modify the classpath specifically for the NetBeans Platform. Here's the first stage—making the JARs in the NetBeans Platform available to IntelliJ IDEA so that the user can add them as a dependency to their project. The result of the code that follows is that the folder containing the modules is...

It's official. I am no longer allowed to torture Packt with further tweaks and edits. Jürgen Petri's English translation is finally complete. They've uploaded the content to the printer and my role in the process is finally over. The final cover is as follows: Henry Kleynhans, newish NetBeans Platform developer in South Africa, the first/only person who has seen the actual PDF so far, other than myself and Packt, told me this about it on Twitter: "I really like it. The way in...