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		Joerg Plewe plewe@hardcode.de Joerg Plewe is a (desktop-) Java developer since 2000 and has been in many areas of IT ranging from embedded programming to bioinformatics and games before. Joerg studied physics and used to work with many languages like C/C++, Forth, Lisp, assembly and others in all kinds of environments. He has four kids, enjoys sports such as cycling, underwater-rugby and flying around in light aircrafts - as aviation is his passion. In 2007 he was honored by being chosen as a founding member of the NetBeans Dreamteam. Articles FlyingGuns: A Distributed Realtime Simulation Game FlyingGuns is a game as well as a demo for a technology created for distributed simulations that can be found in applications of various fields where data has to be distributed at high rates. Weblogs WYLIWYT - where you look is where you type in NetBeans In my latest blog I wrote about the TrackIR device... Head banging... TrackIR is a headtracking device that currently is quite popular amongst gamers, especially in the simulation community. It consists of a... A simple physics/dynamics stack Are you doing engineering using Java? Or even science? Than you sometimes might need to calculate how objects move under the impression of forces and torques. Little helpers for the editor The NetBeans source code editor is not known the be the ultimate one these days. From what I heard and saw, IDEA seems to be #1 in this respect today. My first CVS checkin 2007 This is my first CVS... C with NetBeans on Linux ... check it out! My current project is something with C on Linux. This is no fun, believe me. Especially when you are used to the rich development environment in the Java world. What do we have on Linux... What people consider interesting... Recently I reviewed my blogs access statistics and was quite puzzled why my latest blog about 3D cloud rendering... MS FlightX, FlyingGuns and clouds in the sky ... Why I don't use Groovy: I just cannot. Groovy is a cool language and I'd like to use it. But how to? Whenever I start editing a Groovy script with my... NetBeans, Eclipse, IDEA ... pah! VS2003! There are many discussions around: which is the best IDE? From my current point of view: take any of these and be happy! Really. db4o and it's queries I mentioned the lightweight OODB db4o in some... 'Close' icons on a JTabbedPane w/o UI interference Many apps require a 'close' icon on a tab of a `JTabbedPane`. The solutions I've seen so far all require manipulation of the L&F classes which can be considered bad in many respects.... L&F getting active! Substantially! Surprise, surprise! L... Quick tabbedpane switching w/o sacrifying mnemonics Having `JTabbedPane`s with many tabs can be awkward concerning keyboard usage. Pressing F5 all the day.... waiting for NetBeans 4.1 These days I tend to press F5 in my favorite browser every couple of minutes. A new DB benchmark in town Since I've been investigating on persistence... Will federate databases die out? These days I'm fooling around with some database technologies. db4o - persistence made easy There has been an announcement recently that the db4o database has gone... Functional Ant? Guessing what an Ant project does Typical Ant projects are designed to deliver a single jar as a result. µ-architecture - what's that? When talking about architecture, people think in terms like 1,2,3,4...n-tier, J2EE, client/server, thin vs. thick client. The pieces put together are Oracle vs. DB2, BEA vs. JBoss, Struts...