Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

A very exciting development for NetBeans users (and developers of applications based on the NetBeans Platform) everywhere. Take a look at the screenshot below. Take a look at it again, in particular the buttons within the red rectangle: Right now, as you can see, those buttons are disabled. Now, however, because more than one document is open, those buttons are enabled: The buttons are for tiling the editor documents. Here you can see the effect of clicking "Tile Evenly", which...

Imagine you're a teacher. You're teaching a Java course and your students turn in their homework exercises in the form of NetBeans projects. Now you have thirty NetBeans projects, many of them open in NetBeans IDE. For each of them, you need to load an external file as an argument to the main class. Then that file is processed and you can then see whether the code works as expected. To set the file as an argument for a project, you need to right-click the NetBeans project,...

When you assign a code template to a context, the Code Completion box will show your code template in the context where you're working. Nice and powerful and hidden tip, watch it in action here: Related discussion: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212176

Everything you need to know about where and how to find, display, and configure code templates in NetBeans IDE!

When you're creating plugins for NetBeans and you want to reuse an icon that you see in NetBeans, what do you do to find that icon in the NetBeans sources? Tackling this challenge is described in this short YouTube clip:

Let's get started with Python in NetBeans IDE 8.0.2. Take the following steps: Prepare. Watch this YouTube movie:<span id="XinhaEditingPostion"></span> </p> Make Sure You're Prepared. Watch the movie again. It takes less than 5 minutes. Get the Correct Version of NetBeans IDE.Download NetBeans IDE 8.0.2, the "Java SE" distribution, which is the one...

I had a fantastic time at DevFest Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday 6 December. It was the first time I was in Turkey. However, over several months, even before knowing I'd be going to this conference, I'd been following a free on-line Yale course on medieval history and then, hey, there I was in Constantinople. Fortunately, Mark Stephens, from NetBeans partner IDRsolutions, and one of the new NetBeans Dream Team members, turns out to have studied medieval history for many years,...

One of the organizations present at NetBeans Day Germany last week was SSB Software Service und Beratung GmbH, based in Munich, a software company with more than 20 years of experience focused on integrated solutions for the printing industry. Diso21 Client is a NetBeans Plattform application created by SSB to provide an ERP system for modern printing companies. It helps to manage and to automate enterprise processes. The application has a modular architecture and allows for...

AsciidoctorJ is the official library for running Asciidoctor on the JVM. Here's the start of support for AsciidoctorJ in NetBeans IDE. New AsciiDoc files can be created and you have a source editor where you can write AsciiDoc. Currently, no syntax coloring, etc, yet. When you click the Visual togglebutton above, AsciidoctorJ is used to convert the AsciiDoc: Right now, the conversion options are hardcoded, using CodeRay, a Ruby library for syntax highlighting. Thanks to...