Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

The DukeScript implementation of the Anagram Game (one of the Java Swing samples that has been bundled with NetBeans IDE since forever), by Jaroslav Tulach: Deployed to JavaFX browser: Download it here.

FindBugs 3.0 supports Java 8 and, since NetBeans IDE 8.0.1 bundles FindBugs 3.0, it now also supports FindBugs for Java 8 code! <span id="XinhaEditingPostion"></span><span id="XinhaEditingPostion&amp...

Two great new articles have recently been published on Developer.com about lambdas and member references (method references and constructor references) in NetBeans IDE 8. http://www.developer.com/java/programming-with-lambdas-in-netbeans-8.html  http://www.developer.com/java/programming-with-member-references-in-netbeans-8.html  Read them today! 

I mentioned it before, but now that Karma Istanbul Code Coverage is part of NetBeans IDE, I thought I'd make a small movie about it: <span id="XinhaEditingPostion"></span><span id="XinhaEditingPostion"></span&amp...

Think about names like 'DukeScript' and 'JerseyFaces'... and suddenly you understand the name 'NetBeans'. Jaroslav Tulach is the guy behind these technologies, as well as their names. I've known Yarda for about 10 years at this stage. His key contribution to the developer community is that he's very inspired in connecting and, even, rejuvenating one technology to and, in the light of, some other technology. In the case of 'DukeScript', he wants to put the Java, i.e., 'Duke',...

NetBeans IDE 8.0.1 is here!

I ranted and raved about JCrete recently... and here's the evidence by Maxi, Heinz's son: Click to see the movie above!

NetBeans IDE has heaps of wizards. One of the ones I like the most is "RESTful JavaScript Client", which generates a JavaScript front-end for a RESTful Web Service you select in the IDE. Unfortunately, the client code is based on Backbone.js, which was popular a year or two ago, while right now Knockout and Angular appear to be more popular. I created an issue to make this wizard pluggable, so that the data could be exposed in some way, enabling anyone to create templates...

Very interesting. The team behind Ancestris, the genealogy app I highlighted yesterday, have developed a tool named Trancestris to help translate the resource files used by Ancestris. Trancestris is, itself, a NetBeans Platform application too. Apparently, it is very easy to use it, and it is available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux users.  Read all about it here. Would be extremely interesting to find out whether this tool could be used generically, e.g., to translate...