Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Good news—until the end of November 2015, a 30% discount is available for the e-book version of "Beginning NetBeans IDE for Java Developers". Also note there are bulk offers of Apress books too: https://www.apress.com/corporate-sales/.

All over the world, the news is spreading. NetBeans IDE 8.1 is here. Pick your language and you'll find somewhere to read about new features, enhancements, and community-related news. Here's the tip of the iceberg about how NetBeans IDE is fitting the pieces together of the technology puzzle, as well as fitting communities and individuals across the world together and connecting developers with each other: https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/released-netbeans-ide-8-1 http://www.develop...

When you're running a conference that reaches a certain capacity and you've exhausted a variety of conference centers, the logical next step is to "do a Devoxx", which means you end up in a movie house. Jfokus in Sweden started doing that some years ago. And, from this year, JFall in the Netherlands has started doing the same thing, with an attendance figure of 1,500. Looking at this pic, of the opening keynote session at JFall on Thursday, 5 November, in a movie house (more...

Oracle JET provides a library of data visualizations. Here you see two of the Oracle JET components, the first is a DVT (Data Visual Toolkit) component and the second a form component: ojStatusMeterGauge. Powerful and cool looking. Here you see it in its circular orientation. ojInputNumber. Handy to have a spinner built in, with a max, min, and step size. What's especially interesting is that the two are in an AngularJS application, i.e., I had to avoid the convenience...

Here's the "ojDialGauge" component from Oracle JET in an AngularJS application: What's the point of doing the above? Well, by integrating Oracle JET into an AngularJS application, you're able to see that Oracle's JavaScript DVT (Data Visualization Toolkit) components can be used anywhere you like. How I achieved the above: I forked the angular-requirejs-seedtemplate, because the AngularJS seed is not enough since Oracle JET uses RequireJS, and enhanced it by adding JQuery and...

Oracle JET, the new enterprise-ready JavaScript framework by Oracle, has been integrated into DukeScript by Toni Epple. What does that mean and what's the point and why would anyone want to do this? From the perspective of DukeScript, Oracle JET provides data visualization components that have accessibility support built into them. From the perspective of Oracle JET, DukeScript enables you to write all your business logic in Java, instead of JavaScript, while being able to...

NetBeans was certainly a disruptive force during JavaOne 2015. That was most clearly and objectively evident during NetBeans Day itself, during Community Sunday. Several people failed to find the rooms where the NetBeans Day sessions were held—most of the sessions had to be moved to larger rooms, in some cases because the waiting list was so long that it eclipsed the number allowed to attend. Originally, NetBeans Day had been assigned two rooms (because in the afternoon there...

Well, it was a great week! I especially enjoyed the several NetBeans-related events throughout the week—the parties at Johnny Foley's and Thirsty Bear, the packed out NetBeans Day (some sessions with over 700 attendees) with James Gosling keynoting two sessions, the many NetBeans-oriented sessions throughout the week, and the many small reunions with NetBeans friends from all over the world. Especially nice to meet people who keep coming back to JavaOne year after year after...

From a NetBeans perspective, this week at JavaOne has been quite spectacular. Starting with a fully packed NetBeans Day, with over 700 people in some sessions, including James Gosling headlining two of them, to several fun parties, and many NetBeans sessions throughout the conference, it was truly an enjoyable time. The week ended with an informal meetup at the Thirsty Bear, with many people coming and going all the time, and of course many couldn't make it because they had...