NetBeans Day Paris, for the first time in France, held on the October 16th, 2015. It was a very nice opportunity to meet NetBeans users and developers in Paris Area. My presentation is a live coding session showing how to make a sample app from scratch on NetBeans, using many trendy technologies and APIs: IDE: NetBeans 8.0.2 Server: Payara Server 4.1.153 Backend: Java EE 7 [JPA 2.1, EJB 3.2, CDI 1.1, JAX-RS 2.0], REST Standards, CORS Frontend: HTML5, AngularJS 1.4.x & Twitter Bootstrap 3.3.x Testing: JUnit 4.x Github for hosting the app code The video (French): ...

Today I finished reading the Beginning NetBeans IDE for Java Developers, a masterpiece written by Geertjan Wielenga, a product manager in the NetBeans Team, and published by Apress (August, 2015). To make your work a masterpiece, first master the tools of your work. -— Chinese adage The book covers all its subjects in only 280 pages, which is interesting! No painfully long introductions and debriefings. Instead, it has only the content that actually matters. ...