The Belenix website has been overhauled with a new look and lot's of new and exciting features. Please visit the new website at www.belenix.net. The new website is up and running now. It's time for you to go out and explore the new stuff. Please report any problems, suggestions, feature-requests, etc at the sourceforge tracker or if you think it is important then on this belenix-discuss thread itself.

Register, check out the new theme, new features, the Belenix Planet, mark your location on the Belenix community map, start scooping, participate on the web forum for belenix-discuss, spread the word !
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This morning I've woke up to some great news in my inbox.. I'll keep that a surprise ;)

But nothing like waking up to get some great news particularly related to our Grand Unified IDE, Netbeans and new tricks it learns. Our little baby gets better everyday.[Read More]

Technorati Tags: firefox, download, day, guinness, record

It's been an exciting month. First the BOJUG meet, and then BOSUG. Actually, there have been 2 very close BOSUG meets this month, one with Deirdre Straughan, visiting IEC to share her experience as being a popular and successful videoblogger with Sun (which I missed) and now with Sunay Tripathi, architect of the Crossbow Project, who also came down here along with his team to participate in a thrilling discussion on the Crossbow project with around 25 members of BOSUG attending the...[Read More]

Here's another cool Web 2.0 innovation -- Wordle! From the website: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to...[Read More]

Day before yesterday, I did some spring cleaning with my blog, feed reader, as well as other stuff on my system. Tuned up the sidebar, making things a little cleaner here and there, removing unnecessary badges / widgets and streamlining the display of content. I also did a major change to the display of my blog's front page. Updated all the posts with a summary post, so that...[Read More]

Lets set the world record for Firefox downloads --http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Download time for India is: 10:30 PM tonight!

More info: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/2438

Catch the updates at http://twitter.com/mozillafirefox

And check out Air Mozilla :) @ http://air.mozilla.com/

The OpenSolaris team is going to be hosting an OpenSolaris Chat in Second Life. This will give everyone a chance to really get involved in asking questions around OpenSolaris. Mark the event in your calendar now! :)



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I just took out some time for the regular expressions module and uploaded it's sources to the Netbeans HG repository under the /main/contrib/regexplugin folder, after removing a license dependency on a non-CDDL license due to a library I was using. I did away with it by coding the required functionality myself. That's the only update right now.

The development source code is maintained at the Netbeans Contrib Repository http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib under the "regexplugin" folder. Get Mercurial and run the following command to clone the repository:

# hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib

To get release sources (zip), visit the Project's Files section.

Soon after, I had sent a request to the nbdev mailing list...[Read More]

After hours of tinkering around, reading API documentation and learning Netbeaning, I have put the Netbeans XML hyperlinking project into orbit with the absolute ab-initio implementation of the first phase "Hyperlinking of a sub-element declaration to it's corresponding definition within the same DTD document", which comes under Use Case 2 in DTD use cases as described in our project's Dzone article.

Take a sneak peak at it in the NBXMLHyperlinking Screencast #1...[Read More]

Yippee!!...[Read More]

Just one of the cool web 2.0 tricks, used dapper to get email notifications for plugin portal update center verification ;)...[Read More]

Blogs.sun.com is the central hub of all the sun blogs of all sun employees out there. It is an aggregator of all sun blogs, so to speak, and it's pretty cool.. It shows us 10 most recent posts in the left hand side column, we see a column dedicated to showing the 10 newest blogs at the right hand side, and at the top we see a good looking cloud of tags used in posts made by sun bloggers.. and ofcourse there are RSS feeds for syndication with your feed readers, etc. Well, that's not it. There's one thing on this page...[Read More]

I'm at Sun's India Engineering Center in Bangalore since the past 10 days or so. I've come here for an internship project offered by Sun under the mentorship of Rohan Ranade. I am working on a project focused on improving the XML editor in Netbeans IDE, the primary goal being adding schema/DTD aware hyperlinking support to the editor. In layman terms, what that means, is to allow a developer to click on an element or attribute's name in his XML document and be taken (..or jump) to the corresponding schema or DTD definition...[Read More]

Here's another opportunity for us to promote the open source projects we think need the limelight and not what the big companies, tech blogs and mainstream media think..

The Sourceforge.net 2008 community choice awards nominations have been announced today!

This is the 3rd year of this honorable award program, being bigger than ever this year by allowing nominations of ANY open source project, be it on Google Code, Codeplex, Ohloh, or even OpenSolaris! (and everything else!)...[Read More]

OpenSolaris doesn't have a restart button anywhere in the menu system. It never had one, and so doesn't the newest version, OpenSolaris 2008.05. But have no fear, there have been plenty of hacks and methods to get you rebooting with a single click. For a few days, lately, I was forced to open the terminal, then become root by running su, and then I would run the...[Read More]

On May 31st, I delivered a talk on the "Grand Unified IDE"'s newest. most cherished version till date - Netbeans 6.1 at the Bangalore Open Java User Group. BOJUG is one the most active java communities in India, with 379 members at present. It has a mailing list for discussions, troubleshooting java related problems, and news, tips, etc revolving around the world of Java, and has monthly meets where Java Developers from eminent companies in Bangalore show up to share their interest and...[Read More]

I just have to blog about this as it is a cool new project introduced by Sun at JavaOne this week. It falls very much in my domain of interest, per se and I'm looking forward to using and/or contributing for it as soon as I get free.


So, what exactly is Project SocialSite:
Project SocialSite allows you to "social networking"-enable your existing web applications as well as creating completely new social networking systems based on concepts like a social graph database for integration with multiple social network, and the ability to add OpenSocial compliant widgets into your web pages...[Read More]

I hereby claim my blog at Technorati :) Technorati Profile

I work on my laptop in OpenSolaris 2008.05, which rocks to the core, but unfortunately when the battery is low it doesn't be too informative about it and that causes it to go off instantly while working. That ofcourse leeds to booting problems due to a corrupt boot archive. The next time it booted, I got the old boot archive corrupted error, just as usual, and was advised to boot to Solaris failsafe to be able to fix that, as I always have. I don't even read  that error completely anymore, I've been facing it rather too frequently.

The only problem then was to go...[Read More]