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geertjan - Penguins

Sep 5, 7:41 AM

Via Mark Stephens' conference trip report , I found out about the above Penguin webcam at the New England Aquarium . Pretty cool! In other news. Mark's colleague Mariusz has a great article about ...

geertjan - META-INF/services vs. layer.xml registration

Sep 4, 9:34 AM

There's been some discussion on the NetBeans Platform mailing list (dev AT openide DOT netbeans DOT org) about the two approaches to registering service providers. Because, there are two approaches ...

geertjan - Announcement: NetBeans Platform Teaching Materials

Sep 3, 6:47 AM

The always enthusiastic (and NetBeans Docs Coordinator and NetBeans Dream Team member) Varun Nischal wrote me a few days ago asking about NetBeans Platform slides he might be able to learn from in ...

Brian Leonard - I Love Intel's Commitment to OpenSolaris

Sep 2, 2:03 PM

One of the things that excites me about using OpenSolaris is the amount of work that Intel is doing to improve the product for their processors. David Stewart , an engineering manager at Intel's Open ...

Alan McClellan - Some cool OpenSolaris screencasts

Sep 2, 12:45 PM

Have run across a couple of cool screencasts lately that thought I'd share here. Marty Duey and Hugo Rivera give a nice overview in their  OpenSolaris screencast and explain how it is positioned ...

geertjan - Chinese Cover of the "Rich Client Programming" Book

Sep 2, 7:25 AM

The above is the cover of the book "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform" translated into Chinese by Liang Ye. He reports that the book is currently at the printer, so it ...

geertjan - Generate UML Diagrams into Javadoc for NetBeans Module Projects

Sep 1, 11:01 AM

Here's Javadoc with UML diagrams for the Google Toolbar module from the NetBeans Plugin Quick Start : To let the IDE automatically generate UML diagrams into your NetBeans module's Javadoc, do this: ...

Roman Strobl - What makes OpenSolaris interesting? Reason #3: DTrace

Aug 29, 2:17 PM

For the first two reasons see the posts about ZFS and SMF .  Today I delivered an OpenSolaris training at the Masaryk university in Brno together with Zdenek Kotala from Prague PostreSQL team. One of ...

geertjan - Update on the NetBeans Podcast!

Aug 28, 8:31 AM

Lloyd and I started doing recordings for the next NetBeans Podcast today. More will be done during the coming week (so there's still time to send your suggestions to nbpodcast AT netbeans DOT org), ...

David Botterill - Beyond DHCP with DNS and Routing in OpenSolaris

Aug 28, 6:38 AM

I've finally had time to install OpenSolaris on bare metal.  Previously I've installed it under VirtualBox on my Mac and Linux machines.  The networking configuration really had me pulling out my ...

rchrd - Supercomputing 2008 in Austin, TX in November

Aug 27, 12:29 PM

This year's Supercomputing Conference, SC08 will be in Austin Texas, Nov 17-20. Sun will have a boot there, as usual, with lots of interesting things to show off. I've been able to attend most of ...

geertjan - Jumping from the Swing Explorer Back into NetBeans IDE

Aug 27, 6:49 AM

I saw Maxim's announcement about a NetBeans plugin for his Swing Explorer and tried it. First I was unable to install his plugin. But then I checked out his sources and rebuilt the plugin and ...

Gregg Sporar - DTrace Privileges

Aug 26, 1:29 PM

I wanted to learn more about DTrace, so I started at the beginning: Chapter 1 of the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide . Using my installation of OpenSolaris 2008.05 , I typed in the first command ...

geertjan - Collaborative Writing in a Distributed Environment

Aug 26, 1:57 AM

Here you can read how Alex Kotchnev is putting together a few people to write a new book on Tapestry 5. I got an e-mail from him this morning, asking: "Since you're the only person that I know that ...

geertjan - Jumping to Related Places in the NetBeans Java Editor

Aug 25, 11:24 AM

I learned something interesting about the NetBeans Java Editor today. Say you have an import statement (or anything else) selected, as here: Now look at those browny-greeny marks in the right ...

geertjan - Which of these is "better"?

Aug 24, 12:55 PM

Today I was studying this piece of code: Lookup lkp = Lookups.forPath("MessageProviders"); Collection coll = (Collection) lkp.lookupAll(MessageInterface.class); for (Iterator it = ...

geertjan - Video: Ted Neward, Tim Boudreau, and Me on the NetBeans Platform

Aug 23, 3:10 AM

During the most recent JavaOne, Ted Neward interviewed Tim and myself about the NetBeans Platform, in light of the release of " Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform ". ...

geertjan - FAQ Nodes in TopComponent

Aug 22, 7:03 AM

Combining the info from yesterday's blog entry with the Quick Search Integration Tutorial , you can implement an ExplorerManager Provider in a TopComponent, with this result: I.e. a FAQ window in the ...

geertjan - Create Lazy Children with NetBeans Platform 6.5

Aug 21, 9:39 AM

The NetBeans System Properties Module Tutorial uses Children.Keys to create the children of the node. There are two other (better) ways of doing this instead: org.openide.nodes.ChildFactory . Use ...

rchrd - Sun Studio Wikipedia Page

Aug 20, 12:01 PM

Looks like finally we have a page on Wikipedia for Sun Studio . The problem was that there already is, thanks to Elvis, an entry for another Sun Studio . And getting the two properly disambiguated ...