Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I'm a complete newbie when it comes to CVS in NetBeans IDE. Until the last few days, I've happily been using command line CVS to check in HTML files for the JavaHelp help sets that are bundled with the IDE. (Bear in mind, I've been doing this for more than two years, so I know of what I speak.) But, now that I have a brand new laptop, I'm trying to minimize on the software that I install and so, instead of downloading the CVS software needed for command line CVS, I decided to...

Vincent Brabant, the great French translator of everything NetBeans, also translated, sometime ago already, some of my blog entries that relate to Struts. The whole thing has a very impressive-sounding title (to my Francophile ear): Développer une application Struts à l'aide de NetBeans. It comes in three parts: Première partie Deuxième partie Troisième partie What's kind of funny is that only the "première partie" is covered in my recently completed NetBeans IDE 5.0 Quick...

At NetBeans, there's a very strong push for having everyone contribute samples and tutorials—not just the docs writers, but specifically developers and QE engineers are being encouraged to provide typical user scenarios that can be turned into one or more samples or tutorials. One tutorial that's come along, that I'm working through and tweaking slightly, is by Jaroslav Tulach, based on his really cool HTML Editor (which you can get from contrib). The point of his tutorial...

This morning I found out that a submission I made to JavaOne 2006 (May 16 - 19 in San Francisco) has been accepted. Hurray. (It'll not only be my first time at JavaOne, but also my first time in the US.) Below is the abstract (come along and visit my "birds of a feather" session if the subject appeals to you). If anyone has any comments on it or has anything they want to share, please leave a comment. So... here it is: Creating an IDE for Your Favorite Web Framework There are...

Different users have different needs and one of those needs is to get up and running as quickly as possible when they are new to some technology. Hence, quick start guides. NetBeans IDE has a whole slew (wait a second while I check that spelling, yup I was right) of these. For details, see the docs page for the NetBeans 5.0 Release. However, one ongoing internal discussion is: "How quick should a quick start be (to be done quickly)." Well, some are of the persuasion that a...

Imagine you're me. You spend quite a bit of time writing tutorials for plug-in module development in NetBeans IDE 5.0. For example, you write the NetBeans Help System Plug-in Tutorial. Step by step, the reader is shown how to create all the twiddly little files that are needed before you can start writing help files for your helpsystem. (And, at the end, the reader has fallen into a cunning trap—ignorance can no longer be an excuse for not including a helpsystem with...

In Send Text from the Editor to Google, I wrote about an extension to Ludo's Google Toolbar that lets you send lines of text to Google, straight from the Source Editor (i.e., no typing needed in the textfield in the toolbar). I've taken it a step further—now the user can select a search engine (Google, WebCrawler, Altavista, and DogPile): When the user clicks the button in the toolbar, the default browser is opened, the selected search engine is found, and the current line in...

I've now got Iván's Execution Profile module working for both NetBeans IDE 5.0 RC2 and for the post-5.0 development builds. So if you register my Update Center (which is here), you'll find the module here: To get the module working for both 5.0 (or, at least, the RC2 release) and the post-5.0 dev builds, I played around a lot with the NetBeans Platform Manager (you can find it under the Tools menu): If you use the NetBeans Platform Manager, you can use the features of the...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. You can do wonderful things with origami. The good thing is, you don't need to be Japanese. And, with NetBeans IDE 5.0, you don't even need paper. Look at the first screenshot below: you see something you'll only have seen in real life if you've worked through the NetBeans Manifest File Syntax Highlighting Module Tutorial. However, you also see... a really big brackety thing on the left side, between the left sidebar and...