Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

As so often before, I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong—because, what I thought would be a painful process is actually pretty simple (and will be simplified even further in upcoming releases). First, I'll show you how you can get plug-in modules from my Update Center. This way, you'll start off by seeing the result of the end-product first. Then, I'll show you how I can get your plug-in modules—via your Update Center. If you're not completely (or at all) clear about what...

As so often before, I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong—because, what I thought would be a painful process is actually pretty simple (and will be simplified even further in upcoming releases). First, I'll show you how you can get plug-in modules from my Update Center. This way, you'll start off by seeing the result of the end-product first. Then, I'll show you how I can get your plug-in modules—via your Update Center. If you're not completely (or at all) clear about what...

As so often before, I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong—because, what I thought would be a painful process is actually pretty simple (and will be simplified even further in upcoming releases). First, I'll show you how you can get plug-in modules from my Update Center. This way, you'll start off by seeing the result of the end-product first. Then, I'll show you how I can get your plug-in modules—via your Update Center. If you're not completely (or at all) clear about what...

Let's say you're a web developer but you have no interest in J2EE. You also have a slow computer. So you disable the J2EE module, which is something you can do because the IDE is modular. Suddenly everything speeds up and the world is wonderful again. However...You run into a problem with your JSP page, and you think: "Hmmm. I wonder what the helpfiles says about this." Then you look in the helpfiles and discover... there's nothing in the helpfiles about JSP files! There's not...

Not sure how useful this is, but it's just that I haven't heard anything being mentioned about Matisse in the context of applets. So, while working on the 5.0 version of the NetBeans IDE Applet Tutorial, I thought I'd try it out. Here's the result, in the Design mode of Matisse: When you run the applet, it is displayed in the applet viewer: And, you can even embed the matissefied applet in a web application and then deploy it and display it in a browser (but I've only got this...

Left to right: Sarah, Mohamed, me, Ismail, Moataz. (The picture was taken by May. And Ahmed isn't in the pic because he arrived later.)

Yesterday I met with Mohamed, Sarah, May, Moataz, Ismail and Ahmed who are students in the Computer Science Department (CSD) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). It was an awesome experience. I found out that the CSD consists of about 350 students, many of whom use NetBeans IDE for their Java development needs. So, everyone I met (i.e., the above 6) was very familiar with the IDE -- they use it for web and standard J2SE development (but not J2EE). The length of time...

I passed my Arabic exam! I got 33/35. Of course, I've been kicking myself about the two points I didn't get (mostly because I misspelled "egg", which kind of sucks), instead of feeling good about the points I did. So now I can go out into any Arabic street anywhere in the world... and look like an idiot when I use my formal Arabic on unsuspecting Arabs who only speak the local dialect (like the guy today, who I asked for a "qalum", which means "pen" in formal Arabic, while...

My daily routine in Alexandria...Wake around noon and check out the view from the balcony: Prepare for three hours of Arabic class: (The picture above shows me and Lou, from Syracuse, chilling out at Mahmoud's coffee shop, which is on the corner of Khaleed Ibn El Waleed and Mohamed Nabil Hamdy in Alexandria.) Spend three hours learning Arabic: (In the picture above you see me, Osman the interior designer from London, Yusuf the construction worker from Brussels, and Mohamed our...