Git and Ruby
My company has only recently moving to Git and GitLab. Before we were using Subversion and it took a bit to get accustomed with the new workflow. One problem was that I forgot to push the branch after I finish…
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How to prevent Sabayon to upgrade to a wrong Nvidia driver
I have an old computer of mine with Sabayon Linux installed. It used to work perfectly until Nvidia decided to remove the support of my GeForce GT 555M from the latest version of their driver and to move it to…
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Make Ant great again with NetBeans
My company NetBeans RCA is based on Apache Ant, Ant is a build tool for Java that was very popular when I started programming and many IDE used it to build. The NetBeans platform build system was totally based on…
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XML DOM parsing in Groovy
These days I had to modify several XML files at once, I took this chance to use Groovy and to learn something new. I put an example project on GitHub. Gradle project creation I decided to create a Gradle project, NetBeans…
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Programmatically install a module in a NetBeans Platform Application
Since we developed a new feature for my company software, I was asked to automatically install the help module for this one. The only way to do it was to install the module programmatically because we couldn’t add a dependency…
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Automatic increase module version in a NetBeans Platform Based Application
Some time ago on the NetBeans-dev mailing list, a user asked how to automatically increment the version of a module when it is built. I remember doing something similar for work but in my case, the update was not automatic…
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Adding Spotbugs support to a NetBeans Platform Application
In the past week, I have been integrating FindBugs in my company NetBeans based Rich Client Application. FindBugs is a famous tool for static code analysis; it looks at your jars to find bugs, bad practices, unclosed streams … FindBugs…
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Custom Exception Reporting in a NetBeans RCP application
Recently, on the NetBeans mailing list, it was asked how to implement a custom exception reporter on an application based on the NetBeans platform. Some years ago I had to do the same thing and I want to share my…
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Using a Java Proxy to create Mockups for tests
Today I had the first chance to use the Java Proxy class to create a Mockup class for unit testing. Few people know that it is possible to create mock objects in Java without using an external framework. I wanted to…
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FloatingActionButton dynamic behaviour
Recently I tried to update my Pomodoro Timer, called Conserva,to use Material Design. I decided to do that because I wanted to give it a more modern look and feel. The first step was to replace the old square buttons with the…
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