We just released Alkitab Bible Study 0.9. Alkitab Bible Study is open source and free desktop based Bible Study tool. It features rich and user friendly Bible study tools. Alkitab supports parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, and daily devotions. It also come with powerful search capability. Alkitab is an alternative front end to the [...]

Just a simple tip regarding module branding splash during development or debugging. If you build a “standalone” module for your Netbeans RCP based application, during development you will notice that it will display the original Netbeans IDE/RCP splash screen rather than your branded application splash screen. To enable your own branded splash during development you can add [...]

KIYUT just released Citra FX Photo Effects 2.5, a photo filter effects for digital photos or images. It allows anyone, regardless of experience, to turn digital images into unique artistic looks. Creating impressive photo effects have never been this easy and fun. It is well suited for everything from simple to advanced digital photo or [...]

If you build an application on top of Netbeans Platform, you probably already know that it is using Apache Ant as the build system. Thanks to this flexibility of Netbeans Platform (ant based build system), this system allow us to do various trick to automate stuff. For example Netbeans Platform Branding and version info Netbeans Platform [...]

This is the second part of Netbeans Platform i18n and localization trick. The first part is available at Netbeans Platform i18n and localization. This approach is using branding trick to override the Netbeans Platform default localization. I think this is a HACK, use with caution. The proper localization should be following Netbeans Localization Project. Please [...]

Finally, we just build Java Web Start for Sketsa SVG Editor and Citra FX Photo Effects. Last time, we disabled Java Web Start due to the Netbeans Bug: 96928 which is now fixed. However, there are another Java Web Start related bug which is not fixed yet: 96928 - fixed 76196 - not fixed yet 76197 - not [...]

So, you just finished creating Netbeans Platform based Application and ready to deploy it to the users. You might be interested to check IzPack Installer. IzPack is an installers generator for the Java platform. It produces lightweight installers that can be run on any operating system where a Java virtual machine is available. Depending on [...]

Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0 just released, Now by popular request we are going to develop SVG animation plugins module for the Sketsa. We are stuck at how the UI will flow, do you like the way Adobe Flash Editor, Jasc Webdraw, or you prefer new ways for doing animation editor, etc ? So we are looking [...]

Just a quick note, yesterday we just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. What’s new: Add command line open options Add basic marker support Add basic pattern support Improvement on Selection Tools Improvement on Rotate Tool Improvement on DropperTool Migrate to Netbeans 6 Change to NbPreferences Fix RotateTool when canvas zoom change Fix some under/redo artifacts Fix SaveAs bug Other [...]

Finally, I received my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon DVD plus 5 DVD of Ubuntu 7.10 Repo for local installation. This 5xDVD Ubuntu Repo could save my time downloading all the required package (Internet Connection is still slow in my area) Installation Installation was easy, basically just follow the wizard, *attention* during partition part, because I was [...]