Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Truffle debugging support is demonstrated here in NetBeans IDE 8.1 by Jaroslav Tulach from Oracle Labs:

It is very important to keep the distance between a project and its knowledge as short as possible and the ideal variant is to keep that knowledge just within the project, as a document set. Learn how to do that with Igor Maznitsa's handy MindMap plugin for NetBeans IDE. Details: http://www.igormaznitsa.com/netbeans-mmd-plugin http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/60188

Julien Ponge already mentioned it recently on Twitter: And it's true—Attila Kelemen has done an awesome job in creating this plugin, as this quick movie proves:

All the way from Lyon, in a bus tour that passed through cities like Milan, Munich, and Prague, the Codapps bus tour arrived in Amsterdam yesterday. In a room volunteered by codecentric, which had moved into it about half a week ago so everything was still very sparse and fresh, the next part of the Codename One tutorial sessions began, with NetBeans as the development environment. Led by Clement Levallois, an enthusiastic assistant professor from Emylon Business School in...

Today, in part 2 of the modular architecture course at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo, the Netherlands, we focused on components for data display in the NetBeans Platform, together with the related techniques for modularity and loose coupling. The chosen domain was network satellite management. We ended up with a GUI editor for modifying data managed in a tree and in a table. Each Satellite, named "Awesome" and "Amazing" below, has one or more Antennas, e.g.,...

As reported on NetBeans Facebook, another training course kicked off today at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo, the Netherlands, focusing on using the NetBeans infrastructure as the basis of sustainable Java applications: Two applications were developed during the first day of the course. After lunch, time was spent on the application below, a word processing application that makes use of modularity and loose coupling solutions that are part of the...

A flurry of Tweets a day or so ago re Hack and NetBeans IDE: John Sirach, from the PiDome project (which won a Duke's Choice Award last year), who started the flurry above and has now introduced the Hack font to the NetBeans community (thanks for that John!), likes this font because it makes code look good even when the font size is small. Here's a screenshot he sent me, with the font size set to 10px: Here's how it looks for me, I'm using it fulltime now, with font size 18px...

Today I went to the Apress site for the new NetBeans book "Beginning NetBeans IDE for Java Developers". I used PayPal to pay for the PDF, since the hardcopy isn't available yet. I'm really looking forward to holding the hardcopy in my hands, the PDF is definitely secondary to me, though having it available is nice too! When I ordered it today, I assumed that I'd get sent some old version of the PDF of the book, together with the message: "Soon you will receive the final PDF...

My background is not in IT, but in law—I grew up in South Africa and did my law degree there, focusing on subjects such as international law, labor law, and human rights law. I would certainly have become one of those typical human rights lawyers who inspired me to do a law degree in the first place—one of those lawyers from 90% of court room drama movies—pleading the innocence of an unjustly accused innocent—shaking a self righteous finger at the heavens against the...