Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

The question of the day comes from my colleague JB Brock who asks: "Is there some key combination (shortcut) in NetBeans that allows me to jump between an opening brace and closing brace, or even better, the ability to select everything between braces? I'm working in a JSON file and want to select a full object between { } braces.  Just looking to see if there is something that could make my life a little easier as I have 105 of these little sections that I need to strip...

Here's a very nice YouTube screencast created over the last day or two by Valhalla Data Systems about AspectJ support in NetBeans IDE 8.0.2.

Spectingular is ING's AngularJS-based framework. Here's a fully automated way of getting started with it. 1. Create a new HTML5 application: 2. Use Bower to add Spectingular: 3. Drag-and-drop Spectingular.js into your index.html file: That's it. You've added Spectingular to your application. 

NetBeans Days are happening all over the world. "Oh, really, why aren't they happening in my country?" you ask. "Well, that's because I myself haven't set one up yet!" is how you should answer that question to yourself. https://github.com/netbeansday The slides are stored centrally in the above location (more will be added from previous and future NetBeans Days over time) and will be from hereon onwards! 

A start was made at a NetBeans plugin training session with members of the Nagpur JUG in India, as well as others in Pune, over the weekend. Aatul Palandurkar, who leads the JUG, and who is a NetBeans Dream Team member, set up the session, and took the pic below. Skype ended up being a bit of a problem and the plan is to have a larger session via Google+, together with the Oracle Technology Network. If you're interested in free NetBeans plugin development workshops, to integrate...

Wouldn't it be handy to know how other developers have used the Java API that you're learning about? Imagine that you're learning about java.util.List, you invoke code completion in your Java editor, and you see that 31.84% of users of the List class have used iterator() and, most usefully of all, that the most widely used methods on the List class were to be found right at the top of the code completion box, as shown below, in NetBeans IDE? Even if you're not learning about...

Yes, it's a crazy, crazy world, with each day so full of JavaScript. React.jsis the cool kid of the hour and, of course, in terms of end-to-end tooling, NetBeans IDE is great. In other words, you can set up your React.js application in seconds (and forget the command line completely), use Bower and NPM with it easily, you can debug it, run it into the browser, interact with it live in the browser, wrap it into a native Android or iOS app via integrated Cordova tooling, deploy...

The Visual Studio tutorial "Developing Node Applications" is... all about using the command line to set up a Node application. Here's the NetBeans IDE equivalent (using a development build, i.e., this is not in NetBeans IDE 8.0.2) of at least the first half of that tutorial, in screenshots, i.e., the whole process is automated, which is the point of tooling, i.e., to provide automation. Click Finish after the above steps and you have a complete Express application, exactly the...

Especially when you've tuned NetBeans to make it dark, it's helpful to be able to remove as much noise as possible. Spend less than 3 minutes learning how to do this!