Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I'm back in Prague! The time spent at JavaOne was really cool. I met a lot of people. There were several I should have met but for various reasons things didn't work out. Sorry! I guess that means you'll have to come to Prague. And if you're wondering where that is, combine NASA World Wind with the web service discussed here. This is the result: In the screenshot above, you see that I've got a few entries in the list that are not cities. These come from the original sample...

Now that the worldwind.jar for NASA World Wind is available, here's the absolutely simplest scenario that you can implement very quickly and efficiently with NetBeans IDE:Download and unzip the World Wind Java SDK. In NetBeans IDE, select Tools / Palette Manager from the main menu. In the Swing/AWT Components Palette Manager, browse to the worldwind.jar. Select WorldWindowGLCanvas component and add it to the Beans category. Create a new Java application in NetBeans IDE. Open...

After Day One and Day Two, Day Three was yet another day packed with interesting and varying activities. First, I attended Tim and Jarda's session on modular software development on the NetBeans Platform. It was great. All the principles of modeling in the NetBeans world, explained by two of the absolute experts. The finale, where Tim showed his image editor, really wrapped things up well. The specific main insight I got out of the story was that lots of small modules...

My blog entry on JavaOne Day One ended with me heading off to dinner with some music programmers. Well, that was an excellent experience. Go here for someone else who had a great time, Paul Lamere. The vibe was really cool and we wished we had taped our dinner conversation, because then we would have had the basis of a music-oriented Java podcast. We definitely covered a lot of ground and will keep in touch with each other. Afterwards, attended Shannon Hickey's BOF on Swing...

Tomorrow you can get your copy of Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform signed by its authors: If you didn't get a free copy of the book at NetBeans Day, you can buy it in the book store. They have a very large supply, just arrived. We will be at the book store tomorrow from 10.30 to 11.00, possibly with Jens Trapp who is one of the book's contributors, following Tim and Jarda's technical session in room 135, called "Modular Programming with the...

Woke up tired and groggy in the wee hours. Jetlag and hangover are not a good sleep's best friend. Watched some movies on the hotel TV. Some are really excellent. By now I must've caught up with most of the better movies produced over the past year. I highly recommend Breach, Man of the Year, and The Number 23, though the latter was slightly freaky. Over the past few days I 've seen many other movies on the hotel TV, with thanks to my buddy jetlag, but can't remember the...

NetBeans Day 2007 was memorable for its large variety of short, powerful demos. That's what I really liked about the day. In particular, the many improvements to the Matisse GUI Builder, demonstrated by Tomas Pavek, were really powerful. My favorite was the one where he selected a bunch of JLabels and JTextFields, then right-clicked and chose "Enclose", which revealed a long list of submenus, each representing a Swing container. So, he chose JPanel and then a JPanel was...

Now figured it out on Ubuntu. Same idea as on Windows, but the JMF part is tricky again. Needed are JMF and Jffmpeg. For the NetBeans side of the story, things are much simpler. Just download the Movie Player Module Template that I uploaded to the plugin portal earlier today. Install the template once you've opened it in the IDE, assuming you've set up JMF (and so on) correctly, you'll be able to watch movies on Ubuntu 7.04 (and probably earlier/different Linux distributions...

This morning, at about 5.00 a.m., having just arrived at the airport in Prague, in preparation for the 7 a.m. flight to Amsterdam and then San Francisco, I discovered by accident, in an e-mail thread that I'd overlooked, that I'm apparently doing a (very) brief presentation on NetBeans Day about the NetBeans Movie Player that I created and blogged about some months ago. Now, unfortunately, that movie player was written on a hard disk that I somehow destroyed while in India...