Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Jaroslav Tulach has now integrated several references to NetBeans Platform for Beginners into the NetBeans javadoc: He's also written some very nice things about it here in his API Design blog, a version of which is part of Update 5 of NetBeans Platform for Beginners.

In NetBeans IDE 8.0, you're able to debug JavaScript unit tests via JS Test Driver. In the upcoming NetBeans IDE 8.0.1, JavaScript unit test debugging has been extended to include Karma, as well. Right-click an HTML5 project and, when you select Karma in the JavaScript Testing tab, you can enable debugging, as shown below. (The new Karma Istanbul code coverage integration was discussed in this blog yesterday.)  As you can see below, the drop-down lets you choose on which device...

Nice job—all your tests are passing. However, it's pretty useful to at least know the percentage of code that's under test. No one's saying that all your code should be under test, just that it's hard to argue against being able to be aware that your 100% test pass rate applies to 20% of your code. In the JavaScript world, a popular solution in this area is Karma Coverage, which is based on Istanbul, and for which the upcoming NetBeans IDE 8.0.1 has handy integration: Look at...

Grunt tasks are to JavaScript what Ant targets and Maven goals are to Java. You can "grunt" on the command line, but also directly in NetBeans IDE. Here I'd like to take a look at where the feature set in NetBeans IDE is going with Grunt. Let's say we've got hold of the AngularJS Seed template. Doing this is simple in NetBeans IDE via the New HTML5 Project wizard, which gives you an option to let NetBeans IDE download the AngularJS Seed template as the basis of the new...

With more and more HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 frameworks using packaging solutions provided by Bower and Node.js, it can become a bit tricky for you to set up projects... hard to see the forest for the trees sometimes with so many different solutions striving valiantly to help you but tripping each other up in the process. Despite their innovations, it also becomes slightly cumbersome to share projects with team members because each of them need to run Bower and/or Node.js on the...

Especially useful in the editor tabs, where you could have multiple documents open at the same time, often not with names that reveal the type, and now you can quickly ascertain the type via each tab, i.e., here you can immediately see which one is the interface: For details: http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB801#Projects https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225049 Many thanks Hermien Pellissier from South Africa for raising this issue! It will be available...

In 2008, here, I documented the world's simplest NetBeans Node implementation. Here's the updated implementation, using ChildFactory, together with the code needed for connecting it into a TopComponent: public final class ViewerTopComponent extends TopComponent implements ExplorerManager.Provider { private ExplorerManager em = new ExplorerManager(); public ViewerTopComponent() { setLayout(new BorderLayout()); add(new BeanTreeView(), BorderLayout.CENTER); ...

The recently held NetBeans Platform course in Leipzig has resulted in a very nice enhancement for the NetBeans Platform community. It can be read about here, by its author Daniel Koll, from Aachen: TopComponentGroup mit Annotation No worries if you don't understand German. All you need to understand is Java!  To get started with this enhancement, do a checkout: svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/topcomponentgroupregistration/code/ topcomponentgroupregistration-code You'll end...

Mixing existing translations from the community translation project with new supplemental translations, as described here, we now have NetBeans Platform translations updated to Polish, French, and Dutch during the last few days: French, by Constantin Drabo: Polish by Sławek Mikuła: Dutch by me: If you want these translations as the basis of your own work, let me know in the comments to this blog entry. We're collecting the translations at...