Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Normally, when you start with Oracle JET, you use the "QuickStart Basic Starter Template". That's also bundled into the Oracle JET plugin for NetBeans IDE and is the way most people begin with Oracle JET. But there's a simpler starting point to explore. When you're on the Oracle JET Downloads page, take note of the first item in the list, "Base Distribution", as can be seen below: When you download that ZIP file, you get no sample at all. Instead, you simply get folders named...

Let's work lay out a structured approach for working with JavaScript libraries in Maven projects. In doing so, I am responding to this question by Brett Ryan in Australia on the NetBeans Users mailing list. The project discussed below can be found here on GitHub: https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/BowerPOM Here you can see the solution incorporates Bower, together with Maven, i.e., there's a "bower.json" file as well as a "pom.xml" file. In the Bower file you can see that two...

It may seem like a small feature, but integrating multicursor selection into an editor that doesn't support it from the beginning is a lot of work. However, especially since many/most other editors have this feature, many NetBeans users have been asking for this in NetBeans, for many years. A very rough little preview below, taken with my phone while Ralph, who is working on it, shows it below (no audio): The plan is that you'll select something, press Alt-Shift, and then select...

Yesterday I mentioned joining in on a discussion with the LIMO (Logistics Impact Model) team at Fontys in Venlo. In their own words, this is what LIMO (http://limo.fontysvenlo.org) is all about, from the LIMO user guide: I checked out LIMO from its GitHub repoand built it. It is a Maven-based application, which is one of its many nice aspects, i.e., no need to configure anything, just build the project and Maven handles everything for you. Then run it and you can begin...

Today I spent some time at Fontys International Campus Venlo, the software development department of which started the new academic year a few weeks ago. A perfect opportunity to be introduced to a thorough overview of the key features of NetBeans IDE. I talked about the history of NetBeans IDE as a student project, about the fact that it is free and open source, and its many tools especially for Java and JavaScript. I did several demos, including Java EE/Maven and usage of...

Watch a quick screencast showing Christian Humer from Oracle Labs at JavaOne 2015 demonstrating the Graal VM FastR/Ruby/JavaScript interopability by means of the Graal VM Multilanguage Shell:

I had a great time at the Java User Group Cologne tonight, presenting the best and latest features of NetBeans IDE 8.1, followed by Michael Mueller, who talked about Java 8, lambdas, and streams, as described here. Pretty big turnout, as can be seen below.  I demonstrated the new and cool features in NetBeans IDE 8.1, including Maven, Java EE, JavaScript, Oracle JET, and Node.js. The title of the session was „Free Open Source Tools for Maven, HTML5, IoT, and Java EE“, in which...

Pedro Antonio Hidalgo GuzmánPablo, the author of the Pleasure Play Framework plugin for NetBeans IDE, has put together a brand new YouTube channel, that's growing by the day. Get to it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4yBER5CpOFHJkeu1ZT8H7g Here's how it looks right now:  Aside from this new plugin, the above YouTube channel is a really great initiative to help newbies with this plugin get started and provide overviews of the provided features.

One of the most inspiring talks that underpins this blog (alive and kicking 10 years or more later) as well: Infusing arguments with emotion, etc, plus learning as you go along, these ideas are really the basis of what this blog has been and continues to be about. Tip: Bookmark the above YouTube clip, go to your Google calendar, and set a date every 3 months to re-watch it.