Recent Posts by Geertjan Wielenga

In this video taken during NetBeans Day 2013, Jirka Kovalsky, the NetBeans community manager, reports on the NetCAT program, which is the NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing program. Note: Sound quality is a bit low and I recorded it with a small handheld camera, so sometimes things are a bit shaky.

James Gosling uses NetBeans IDE at least 10 hours per day. Here he shares his insights about NetBeans IDE during NetBeans Day 2013, Sunday 22 September 2013, in San Francisco. His insights include several that were a complete surprise to me, really cool stuff. Note: Sound quality is a bit low and I recorded it with a small handheld camera, so sometimes, especially near the start, a bit shaky. Next, go here to see another (shorter and better quality) movie of James Gosling at...

In this (silent) screencast, you see the Genymotion Android emulator used from NetBeans IDE, together with Cordova, to enable HTML, JavaScript, and CSS development for mobile devices. The point of this screencast is to show that the traditional slow turnaround of redeployment to the Android emulator can be fixed, if the combination of Genymotion, Cordova, and NetBeans IDE is used.

During the last few days, for the first time, the Vaadin team have made a Vaadin plugin available for NetBeans IDE. It can be installed in NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 and NetBeans IDE 7.4 RC 1: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/50531/vaadin-plug-in-for-netbeans Note: Vaadin team members will be present at NetBeans Day tomorrow, while the plugin will be highlighted during NetBeans Community Tools with JRebel, Jelastic, and More[UGF10388], together with plugins for Jelastic, JRebel,...

I've been experimenting a bit with Cordova development in NetBeans IDE. In this YouTube clip, I show you how to get started setting up Cordova, while here you see the creation of a new Cordova application, with deployment to an Android emulator: However, as you see in the screencast above, the Android emulator is extremely slow. The web abounds with complaints about this, as well as information about Genymotion, the solution to the problem, since Genymotion is a really fast...

NetBeans IDE 7.4 RC 1, released today, has a long list of features, including support for the intriguing Apache Cordova project. I recently showed how to set up Cordova in NetBeans IDE 7.4, on Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4uHSiO-00 And today I succeeded with the same thing on Ubuntu: Above you see my address in Amsterdam identified via the Cordova maps sample distributed with the IDE deployed in my Android emulator. As always, the slew of folders and files that...

In this screencast, a very slightly blurry video of a talk I did last year at JavaOne, which I discovered on YouTube yesterday, you get a good idea of how to get started with the NetBeans Platform, most of the main points are hit and anyone without anay background in the basic "why" and "how" should have most of their questions answered. Sit back for slightly over an hour and get ready to learn some cool things! Related info: https://netbeans.org/features/platform/all-docs.html

In this (silent) screencast, you see in 5 minutes how to get started with Cordova (PhoneGap) development in NetBeans IDE:

In this (silent) screencast, you see in about 3 minutes how to get started with JDK 8: Here's where I downloaded JDK 8 from: https://jdk8.java.net/download.html And here's a useful article on profiles: https://blogs.oracle.com/jtc/entry/a_first_look_at_compact Finally, here in the NetBeans IDE 7.4 "New & Noteworthy", you can see, as shown in the movie above, info about JDK 8 Profiles support: http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeans_74_NewAndNoteworthy#Projects Two issues have come out of...