Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I'm beginning to figure out some of the basic things needed for making Camtasia work the way one would expect it to. I've just posted part 3 of "Top 10 NetBeans APIs" on NetBeans Zone (here). This is how it all looks inside Camtasia. For the first time I have multiple small parts that I'm stringing together via Camtasia's handy story boarding tools: I'm hoping that my next screencast will have a more steady volume between the individual parts. (But then again, what's...

Below is a pic of Allan Davis, the chair of the New Orleans Java users group (CajunJUG). CajunJUG meets every third Thursday of the month (so if you're from that part of the world and you're not going to these meetings, maybe you should start going this month) and are doing a series on JPA with the NetBeans Platform, which sounds pretty interesting. (Looking forward to seeing blogs about it!) Here you see Allan giving out two copies of "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into...

One of my favorite columnists from my favorite newspaper, the Guardian, is in "a spot of bother". (He made an "inappropriate" prank call on his BBC 2 radio program.) I have been an admirer of Russell Brand for several years. His weekend sports column, focusing primarily on his love for West Ham, the football club of which he is an ardent fan (and which turned out to be a dank little corner of London when I ended up near there accidentally about a year ago), is simply...

Brief introduction, which should be fleshed out a bit at some point, but provides an introduction: // //]]> Read more about it, with related links, here on NetBeans.tv. In other news. The sound quality of the screencast above is much better than previously. Why? Because I found the "Remove Noise" button in Camtasia. Seriously, is that something that I should have to explicitly invoke? Why would I want to KEEP the noise?!

The pics below sum up everything you need to know to conceptually understand the NetBeans Platform, an application framework for large distributed Swing applications: The above is Toni Epple, from Eppleton, an independent Java consulting and project out sourcing company in Munich, Germany, presenting the NetBeans Platform in Gdansk, Poland. Several other pics available here and also here, with probably more coming in the next few days, from the NetBeans Days that took place...

My screencast skills aren't perfect yet, but getting there. I've now learned how 'call outs' work. Some of the timing is still slightly off and the screencast ends quite abruptly. Aside from that, the basic point of the screencast comes across well enough. Have a look (6:22 mins): //]]]]> ]]>The text right at the end, which disappears as soon as you see it, says: "That's all folks. Have fun with Groovy! Clearly it makes code generation a piece of cake, not just for files, but even...

I've spent the weekend with Karol Harezlak, Toni Epple, and Adam Bien in Poland—specifically in Poznan and Gdansk, because these two cities constituted the locations of NetBeans Day, Poland. It was a pretty excellent time. Both days had a very strong focus on the NetBeans Platform, which was pretty cool. The trip to these places was pretty long (Karol drove the whole way), with me being the GPS, together with Karol's iPhone. Parts of the time the whole map disappeared (thanks...

The first of several screencasts I am planning in relation to Groovy: // //]]> PS: When I said "on our dialog", I should have said "on our Groovy class".

A cool blog entry I found today by John, head of the Docs team: