Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

Let's imagine all you care about is development of applications using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. For example, you only want to create Knockout or Angular JS applications. How best to set up your IDE so that exactly those features, and no more, are included? You might want this very small minimalistic IDE if you're concerned about performance, startup time, and removing the clutter of all the buttons and menu items that don't relate to what you're doing. The simplest solution...

CaseLnk Case Management System, by CaseForge Technology, is a brand new piece of software for improving office productivity, user collaboration, and customer satisfaction. It supports cases, documents, tasks, events, processes, and contacts.The technologies used are Java 7 with NetBeans Platform 7.3 and JavaFX. NetBeans Visual Library API is used to design workflows: The Case Editor window to input case information: A window integrated with JavaFX for displaying weekly tasks...

In part 1 (in May 2011), I introduced the great work being done by CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico) with Java and in part 2 (in April 2012) I provided a status report on a desktop application that the CIMMYT team has created to process and analyze crop statistics received from around the world. What's great about CIMMYT is that they're strongly focused on open source tools. In a recent e-mail I received from Hector Sanchez, the project...

A great article on TheServerSide.com by Rob Terpilowski, one of the speakers at a JavaFX/Swing panel that I was involved with at JavaOne this year: The whole thing is here: http://www.theserverside.com/feature/Pros-cons-of-moving-from-Swing-to-JavaFX-UI-tools-a-plus

I took a look at Git support in NetBeans IDE yesterday and today. I like the repository browser a lot: Nice. Also cool are the many new features and enhancements in the upcoming NetBeans IDE 7.4, such as the reorganized menu structure... ...and the new rebase support: Are you using Git in NetBeans IDE and what do you think of it? All of this is out of the box, of course, no plugins. Here's the latest enhancements in NetBeans IDE 7.4 in relation to Versioning Tools: http://wiki.netb...

When you're switching from one IDE to another, you'll sometimes find that similar features have been implemented differently. So too the Eclipse Problems View, which has its NetBeans equivalent in the NetBeans Action Items Window. Kind of nice that what is seen as a "problem" in Eclipse is, more positively, seen as an "action item" in NetBeans. :-) Go to Window | Action Items or press Ctrl-6 to see the above window. However, a problem with the NetBeans Action Items Window...

The NetBeans equivalent for the Eclipse Problem View is the Action Items Window, accessible via Window | Action Items in the main menu. It is a central collection point for problems found throughout all open projects, or the current project, or the current file, with problems and filters that can be set. And it can be configured further in the Options window: There's always more info that the Action Items Window could provide. In other words, if you're missing something from...

There have been some questions recently about Fosfor, the open source EPUB tool that I started creating some time ago. Well, it's been rearchitected from scratch and now includes the WYSIWYG editor based on JavaFX that I blogged about over the past days: I ended up abandoning the WebView and went with the HTMLEditor, despite its problems, e.g., problems displaying images within HTML. Hoping to workaround that somehow, right now hardcoded for the screenshot above, probably...

Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya is the public entity responsible for collecting and storing weather data in Catalonia. The most valuable data comes from weather stations based throughout the region. Each weather station has sensors to measure different kinds of variables, such as temperature, humidity, and pressure. Weather stations are polled regularly, data is processed, andstored in an Oracle database that contains around 350 million records. The application responsible...