Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Oracle JET has been announced, the new modular enterprise JavaScript framework based on open source libraries such as Knockout and Require:

What's the point of NetBeans, why does it exist, what's so special about it? Questions such as these and more can best be answered by looking at the enthusiasm exuding from this photo taken last night here in San Francisco:

Again... busy, as always. The ones in bold are sessions where I'm speaking, the others are where I'm attending or booth duty. Sunday: NetBeans Day Monday: 08:30 - 10:30: TUT2097: Are You Listening? JavaFX Binding Techniques for Rich Client UIs (Hilton—Golden Gate 6/7/8) 11:30 - 13:30: NetBeans Booth 14:30 - 15:30: CON3188: Stop the Rot: A Discussion on Maintaining Java Software Quality (Hilton—Imperial Ballroom A) 16:00 - 17:00: CON7008: Moving Enterprise Data from JFreeChart to...

They're here! Only problem now is to get them to San Francisco...

In alphabetical order, the community-driven NetBeans t-shirt incorporates logos from the following organizations (of which there could be many many many more, but there's only so much space on a t-shirt): AgroSense—organization set up by Timon and Eva Veenstra in Groningen, the Netherlands. Timon is a NetBeans Dream Team member. AgroSense uses NetBeans IDE for their development work and has developed a precision agriculture system on top of the NetBeans Platform. Anahata—softwa...

With JavaOne coming up, including yet another awesome NetBeans Day and an equally awesome line up of NetBeans-related sessions throughout the conference, it was time for a new NetBeans t-shirt. Only problem was that it was slightly over a week before JavaOne that we really started making it happen. On the NetBeans Dream Team mailing list, a lot of discussion took place. What should be on the t-shirt, etc, and what should the key message be, etc. We didn't want to have a...

Take a look at this quick screencast to see how you can debug code from Java to C++ in a single process: Also, watch this:

NetBeans is really all about integration, i.e., it strives to seamlessly put a variety of technologies and techniques together into a coherent user interface. The ultimate evidence of that is a set of brand new tools that take away the typical pain points with which any Java developer doing native development is all too familiar. Best to watch the screencast and in 5 minutes you too will have seen the light: Related reading, i.e., these are a variety of references I...

We're really excited about the upcoming NetBeans IDE 8.1 release. A whole bunch of features, especially in the shiny jazzy area of JavaScript, especially Node.js support for the first time, will be available in the ultra lightweight (assuming you're not using the "All" distribution, but the one you actually need) NetBeans IDE 8.1. However, we, that is, the NetBeans community, all over the world, need YOU, yes, YOU, the person that is right now reading these words, to try out...