Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Today I have two new/updated plugins for the price of one! One costs zero money and therefore two do, too. Firstly, I find the concept of a key promoter very handy, but the initial version of the plugin provided too much noise. Now, instead of using the Notifications window, the keyboard shortcut, if there is one, that matches the action invoked from a menu item or toolbar button is shown in the status bar: Get the above plugin here. Secondly, I'm going to be using only the...

NetBeans Day in Munich, Germany, held yesterday, was pretty amazing. Despite having been arranged at the last minute, and undermined a bit by Lufthansa strikes and Deutsche Bahn hiccups, the room was filled to almost maximum capacity, certainly around 100 attendees were present. (Registration for the event had to close soon after it opened, because there was only room for 100.) The key people to thank for the event are Peter Doschkinow from the Oracle office in Munich and...

There are many reasons why it makes sense to use NetBeans IDE for your software development work. But, of those many reasons, what are the top reasons? Here they are, the top 7 reasons, explained together with demos and slides! <span id="XinhaEditingPostion"></span> </p> Go here for many more similar YouTube movies.

At Droidcon, beginning of this week, the main thing I learned was during a conversation in the hallway right at the end of the conference. According to the two guys I was talking with: When you go to Booking.com, the price you're offered for your booking depends on whether you own an Android or an iPhone. This can be determined in dozens of different ways, e.g., the searches you do on-line. Apparently iPhone users are wealthier than Android users. Therefore, Booking.com offers...

After part 1, Cojan van Ballegooijen from Red Hat, with a little bit of input from my side, got quite a bit further with the Red Hat OpenShift plugin today. After selecting Red Hat OpenShift in the Cloud Provider dialog, shown below... ...the dialog below appears, i.e., when you click Next above. The UI you see below is 100% the same as the equivalent dialog in JBoss Developer Studio, with thanks to Cojan van Ballegooijen from Red Hat: Right now, the Username and Password...

I had a great time at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen today. In the bioinformatics department, NetBeans IDE is used to teach Java to third year students (who learn Python during their first year and R during their second year) and Michiel Noback (who I've known for about 3 years, since I delivered a NetBeans Platform course there at some stage), their Java teacher, invited me to do an "advanced NetBeans workshop". The whole group, including some of the...

One way to extend the NetBeans IDE Debugger is to listen to the global context Lookup, as done in part 1 and in the recent Breakpoint Beep story. Another way is to use the extension points that you see when you extend the layer file in a NetBeans module: For the functionality shown yesterday, i.e., barking breakpoints in the NetBeans IDE Debugger, I started by adding the following to the layer file: <folder name="Debugger"> <folder name="BreakpointsView"> <folder...

Especially when you have complex breakpoint definitions, such as conditional breakpoints and dependent breakpoints, your debug sessions can become difficult to understand. Why not inject some sounds into the process? I have created a "Beep Selector" for the Breakpoints window. Notice that there's a new button in the left of the window, right below "Create new breakpoint" and "Select breakpoint groups". The icon displayed on it is what you'd expect a sound icon to look like....

Here you see it in action, i.e., in the Breakpoints window, a LineBreakpoint is selected, which causes the text shown above to be displayed in the status bar and, later, a beep to be heard when the breakpoint is hit: