Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

I spent some time at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo, at their invitation, to introduce the topic of extending NetBeans IDE via learning how to create new plugins. At Fontys, they've standardized on NetBeans IDE for teaching purposes and so everyone in the class was very familiar with the IDE. In the beginning we discussed NetBeans IDE features the class likes most and it was interesting that the first item that came up was "great performance". Others included...

Get to know a bit about AngularJS services via a very simple example that will get you up and running before you know it!

Learn how to use AngularJS to let the user select Christmas presents and show them the total price of all selected items.

Busy developers don't have very much time and need to get started quickly. Here's part 1 of a series on AngularJS, just to get your feet wet.

Ludo ex-Sun ex-Oracle now-Google Champenois pointed out while sitting next to me at the long tables at Devoxx that there's at least one cool Maven feature that IntelliJ IDEA has that he misses from NetBeans IDE: What you see above are all the goals in a POM file, which can be clicked on to be invoked. In NetBeans IDE, you need to configure the "nb-actions.xml" file to get something similar. As Ludo said: "The context is that for App Engine, for example, it is much easier to...

I started up NetBeans IDE 7.4, installed the AT&T ARO plugin I've been working on since last week when I first heard about AT&T Application Resource Optimizer (it's free! it's open source!) at Oredev from Doug Sillars from AT&T, and then deployed the Cordova Maps sample that comes with NetBeans IDE. I deployed it to an Android emulator, which can be done via one click in NetBeans IDE. Once the app was installed on the emulator, I started the ARO Data Collector from a menu item...

Yet another really cool movie by the Maltego team in South Africa, this time showing Visual Library widgets in their NetBeans Platform application shared in realtime between different users of the Maltego open source intelligence gathering and analytics software: What you see above is Maltego CaseFile. Below you find out more about it in the latest blog entry on the Maltego site: http://maltego.blogspot.be/2013/11/maltego-casefile-v2-released.html

New bleeding edge enhancements in AngularJS support in NetBeans IDE enable many more controllers to be found than in NetBeans IDE 7.4. The next version of NetBeans IDE parses all JavaScript files and checks for defined AngularJS controllers, such as the below: All recognized AngularJS controllers are offered in code completion, as shown below. In other words, code completion works better in finding AngularJS controllers. Another improvement is in the "Go To Declaration" feature....

The Java EE platform aims to increase your productivity and reduce the amount of scaffolding code needed in Java enterprise applications. It encompasses a range of specifications, such as JPA, EJB, JSF, and JAX-RS. How do these specifications fit together in an application, and how do they relate to each other? And how can HTML5 be used to leverage Java EE? In this recording of a session I did last week at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden, you learn how Java EE works and how it can...