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Geertjan Wielenga

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  • Geertjan is an open source enthusiast at Oracle focused on tools and technologies such as Oracle JET (oraclejet.org) and NetBeans IDE (netbeans.org).

    Geertjan is an open source enthusiast at Oracle focused on tools and technologies such as Oracle JET (oraclejet.org) and NetBeans IDE (netbeans.org).

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Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Eclipse Java Code Formatter in NetBeans Plugin Manager

Great news for Eclipse refugees everywhere. Benno Markiewicz forked the Eclipse formatter plugin that I blogged about sometime ago (here and here)... and he fixed many bugs, while also adding new features. It's a handy plugin when you're (a) switching from Eclipse to NetBeans and want to continue using your old formatting rules and (b) working in a polyglot IDE team, i.e., now the formatting rules defined in Eclipse can be imported into NetBeans IDE and everyone will happily...

YouTube: Chrome Dev Tools Integration with NetBeans IDE!

Some time ago my colleague David Konecny discussed the question "What works better for you? NetBeans IDE or Chrome Developer Tools?". It's a good read. David highlights the point that it's not a question of either/or but both, since the two tools are like the apple/pear dichotomy. However, good news! The two worlds are not divided in NetBeans IDE 7.4. Changes you make in Chrome Developer Tools (CDT) are automatically persisted to the related files in NetBeans IDE, as you can...

TomEE Integration in NetBeans Next

At JavaOne 2013, there was a lot of buzz around the TomEE server, e.g., many Tweets, nice party, and a new TomEE consulting company. For those tracking TomEE developments, it's interesting to note that recently the NetBeans IDE development builds have had added to them... TomEE support. Note: The TomEE support described here is not in NetBeans IDE 7.4, but in development builds for the next release of NetBeans IDE.For example, with NetBeans IDE development builds you're...

YouTube: Five Simple Ways to Extend NetBeans IDE

Do you have ActionListeners and JPanels lying around? What about integrating them into NetBeans IDE? Extending NetBeans IDE is not rocket science. Watch this screencast to get started integrating your own technology into NetBeans IDE: Many more details: https://netbeans.org/features/platform/all-docs.html

"44 Tips" in PHP Magazin and Other NetBeans IDE Screencasts

My recent YouTube series "44 Tips for Front End Web Devs" (part 1, part 2) has been picked up by PHP Magazin: http://phpmagazin.de/news/Frontend-Entwicklung-mit-NetBeans-IDE-168339 Great. I'm working on more screencasts like that, from different angles. For example, one will methodically explain each and every window in NetBeans IDE; another will step through the creation of an application from conception to deployment; while another will focus on the NetBeans IDE extension...

Simple HTML5 Friendly Markup Sample

From a demo done by David Heffelfinger (who has a great Java EE 7 screencast series here), on HTML5 friendly markup. index.xhtml:  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?><!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:jsf="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf"> <title>Data Entry Page</title> <body> <form method="POST" jsf:id='form'> <table> <tr> <td>Name:</td> <td><input jsf:id='name'...

Developing Ext JS Charts in NetBeans IDE

I took my first tentative steps into the world of Ext JS charts today, in NetBeans IDE 7.4. Click to enlarge the image. I will make a screencast soon showing how charts such as the above can be created with NetBeans IDE and Ext JS. Setting up Ext JS is easy in NetBeans IDE because there's a JavaScript library browser, by means of which I can browse for the Ext JS libraries that I need and then NetBeans IDE sets up the project for me. The JavaScript code shown above comes...

44 Tips for Front End Web Devs (Part 2)

Continue where you left off at the end of part 1 in learning the coolest tips and tricks for HTML5 development, with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in NetBeans IDE. You'll learn about a bunch of things from SASS to Cordova and from JavaScript debugging to Chrome integration! Feedback and/or ideas for other similar screencasts? Let me know in the comments to this blog entry.

44 Tips for Front End Web Devs (Part 1)

HTML, JavaScript, and CSS development in NetBeans IDE is fairly new, especially the integrated features of all the editors with the browser. In this screencast, newbies (and even those who have used NetBeans for many years) get a series of tips and insights into using NetBeans IDE in the context of HTML5 development. For example, useful keyboard shortcuts, plugins such as Emmet, and much much more is covered: Part 2 of this series, which is also the final part, is set to be...