Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I've been reading "Google Web Toolkit: GWT Java AJAX Programming" by Prabhakar Chaganti. It is a very good book, very practical, perfect for my first introduction to GWT. Did you know that NetBeans IDE has a very advanced plugin that provides a lot of support for this framework? I didn't, until today. As a result, there's a new tutorial that gets you started, as well as a plugin in the Plugin Portal. The plugin provides the sample that you get at the end of the tutorial. The...

I reimplemented the YouTube Player as a TopComponent (in its own brand new mode), with the titles listed in the Navigator. Get it here: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=4437 The YouTube Search window should open when you've installed the two modules you get from the ZIP that you download above. If it doesn't, open it from the Window menu. Type something in the window and press Enter. The Navigator is opened as usual, via...

The architecture of the YouTube integration that I showed yesterday is kind of interesting. To ensure that anyone can plug in their own embedded browser component, I separated the WebRenderer API and its implementation into a separate module suite from where the YouTube API and its implementation are found: As a result, there could be several other browser components too, just like the WebRenderer API and implementation above. For example, you could make a suite called...

I'm learning about NetBeans mobility functionality via YouTube movies, which I am watching inside the IDE while developing a mobile application. Below, you see the head of the Mobility team, Martin Ryzl, introducing a presentation, where he goes through lots of slides and demos about mobile development in the IDE (the movie was loaded when I clicked in the list shown in the top right of the screenshot below, which is a list of YouTube movies that match the search string...

Managed to integrate the YouTube Player into the IDE. Unfortunately, because I'm using WebRenderer, a commercial web browser component, I can't distribute it. And I don't know whether I can distribute the Google API either. It was pretty cool to port the application to the NetBeans Platform, because it meant I was basically recreating it, thus optimizing the code as I went along the second time. For example, there was no need for the Tidy API at all! In fact, I didn't need to...

NetBeans IDE 6 is out. Time to hurry to http://www.netbeans.tv/ and check for movies. Another place is YouTube, a few interesting things can be found there too. Here's one way of doing it, using a Swing YouTube Player: YouTube is really well integrated here, for example, you can scroll through related movies within the browser component, i.e., note the "left" and "right" arrows on the two sides of the screenshot below. And, at the bottom of the currently playing movie, you...

I took the principles outlined here and now I have a Swing browser for YouTube. It opens the browser when I click "Go there", displaying whatever is selected in the list. Entries appear in the list when I type something in one of the Search fields and then press Enter. Here's how it looks: It's already more useful than YouTube itself. There's just way too much stuff going on on that site. Just give me the movies and let me watch them, that's all I ask. Don't overload me with...

Observe the zebra, in a place where it never thought it would be. Imagine all the advantages. Now that it knows how to get there, to the top of the giraffe, with an amazing view right over the savannah, it can pass on this ability to its offspring. Its offspring, in turn, will then have the same ability and the zebra will evolve from a weak and helpless victim to a versatile, interesting, and awe inspiring member of the animal kingdom. Now, look at your humble Swing...

I incremented the NetBeans Google Translator Integrator to 1.5. One can now translate text in any kind of file (Editors/Popup folder, instead of Editors/mime-type/Popup), not just HTML or Java. Go here to get the plugin: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=4189 You'll get a ZIP file with two NBMs. When you're in the Plugin Manager, you'll see this: After installation, you can translate to your heart's content. Select the from/to...