Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

You might have been wondering what's up with the monthly NetBeans Podcast. My co-presenter and brilliant technical podcasting guru (who can record & edit great quality podcasts in his sleep), Lloyd Dunn, is no longer working at Sun. Therefore, in the absence of Lloyd, who also owned the recording equipment, I'm not able to produce any more podcasts, until we find an alternative mechanism for (1) creating podcasts and (2) editing them. I've been told that the NetBeans Podcasts...

The NetBeans Platform Certified Training took place at the University of Ulm, Germany, yesterday and today. The trainers were Toni Epple from Eppleton (consultancy for NetBeans Platform applications), Aljoscha Rittner from Sepix (sales automation on top of the NetBeans Platform), and myself, with a special guest appearance by Lorenz Weber, who took the same training at the University of Würzburg last year. He did a very cool presentation about his batch refactoring project...

One benefit of attending a NetBeans Platform Certified Training is that you are able to join a private mailing list where students can share/discuss common problems relating to their certification projects. (If you have taken the course and are not on the list, let me know and I will add you!) The list also hosts a NetBeans Platform quiz, the first of which has come to an end. Below are the questions, together with the correct answers.What is the name of the NetBeans API...

When you now go to the Plugin Portal, to this page: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=15661 ...and if you click the Download button, you should see that you're downloading "TwitterIntegration-2.zip". That ZIP file contains two modules, as before. One contains the Twitter4J library (that module is unchanged), while the other contains the UI that I blogged about over the past days, with one new feature: integration of Twitter Search...

Twitter Search API doesn't have a Java interface (yet) unfortunately, it's simply a web based query: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=netbeans Above is what you'd type in the browser to get a query result, again in the browser. Here's what the result will look like in NetBeans IDE, once I finish up integrating it into the Twitter Integration that I blogged about yesterday. Right now, I have all the pieces that I need, which is great. So here's the result (in this case, I...

Not finished yet, but have a look anyway: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=15661 Below is the view I have, with all the related bells & whistles: Feedback welcome of course. However, preferably via Tweets sent from NetBeans IDE!

Carl Dea (who I know via a series of articles I wrote about "Filthy Rich Clients" on the NetBeans Platform, of which part 1 is here), sent me an e-mail a few days ago to encourage me to join Twitter. I did so, today, and this is my Twitter nest (is that the correct word? I totally just made it up): https://twitter.com/GeertjanW By the way, here's the NetBeans Twitter nest: https://twitter.com/netbeans It wasn't long before I wanted to send my tweets from inside NetBeans IDE,...

Toni Epple (from Eppleton, the Munich-based NetBeans Platform consultancy) already mentioned it in his blog yesterday: as a direct result of user requests, see below... http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=155926 http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=156693 ...it is now possible to specify per-component (rather than only per-application, which has been possible since 6.5), whether a window should be closeable, maximizable, undockable, draggable, etc. As with...

Yesterday on NetBeans.tv I created a beginner's video for Wicket, today I uploaded a new version that includes callouts (i.e., texts in the screencast) during the demo section, to explain what's going on. It's now also shorter than before. Watch the whole thing ("Dummy's Guide to Wicket") here: //]]]]> ]]> Download it here! I'm hoping to make other similar screencasts (which topics would you like? I'm thinking of "Dummy's Guide to Spring RCP" and "Dummy's Guide to Grails" and "Dummy's...