My experiences as curious developer
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recently I have been asked to add comment and uncomment actions to the editor toolbar of a file type used by my company RCP Application based on NetBeans. This is how I did. In my company application we had alredy defined…
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In my company we are using an old version CodeBeamer as bug-tracker, it works well but it has a problem: when you open an issue the title of window/tab is the same for all issues. That’s to say when you…
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I was asked to make a mobile Phone APP that worked like a scoreboard for Karate (Kumite) matches. I had already some experience making Android apps but I wanted to try something new. I had heard aboud Apache Cordova a…
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