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NetBeans OpenCL Pack

Michael Bien posted an article on - Aug 29, 2011, 8:16 pm
Since I am doing a lot with OpenCL lately I decided to try to improve the tooling around OpenCL a bit. A weekend later the NetBeans OpenCL Pack was born :). Features Including: OpenCL Editor with syntax highlighting code completion and CL reference pages integration ...
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Many little improvements made it into JOCL recently

Michael Bien posted an article on - Aug 4, 2011, 6:24 pm
Ok some of them are big, but I will only cover the little things with this blog entry :). CLKernel I added multiple utility methods to CLKernel and related classes. It is for example now possible to create a kernel and set its arguments in one line. CL...
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Developing with JOCL on AMD, Intel and Nvidia OpenCL platforms

Michael Bien posted an article on - May 17, 2011, 2:30 pm
One nice feature of OpenCL is that the platform abstraction was handled in the spec from the first day on. You can install all OpenCL drivers side by side and let the application choose at runtime, on which device and on which platform it should execute the kernels. As of to...
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Java Binding for the OpenCL API

Michael Bien posted an article on - Sep 10, 2010, 4:49 pm
I am currently working on Java Binding for the OpenCL API using GlueGen (as used in JOGL, JOAL). The project started as part of my bachelor of CS thesis short after the release of the first OpenCL specification draft and is now fully feature complete with OpenCL 1.1. JOCL is currently in the s...
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New Getting Started with JOGL 2 tutorials

Michael Bien posted an article on - Sep 3, 2010, 6:22 pm
Thanks to Justin Stoecker, computer science graduate student at the University of Miami, JOGL gets a new set of getting started tutorials: JOGL, or Java Bindings for OpenGL, allows Java programs to access the OpenGL API for graphics programming. The graphics code in JO...
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JOGL 2 - Composeable Pipline

Michael Bien posted an article on - Aug 25, 2010, 9:27 am
JOGL provides a feature called 'composeable pipeline' which can be quite useful in some situations. It enables you to put additional delegating layers between your java application and the OpenGL driver. A few usecases could be: performance metrics logging, debugging or diagnost...
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Converting from CVS to GIT

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 9, 2010, 4:37 pm
This post is a short description how to convert a CVS repository into GIT. I used the tool cvs2svn from Tigris.org for this task. As an example I will use the project jake2. 0. Install cvs2svn and cvs ('cvs2svn' not only does cvs2svn conversion it also contains the shell...
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You have won the Jackpot 3.0

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 3, 2010, 5:16 pm
You probably remember the project called Jackpot which James Gosling was initially involved with. It was basically a way to migrate client code between incompatible third party libraries by specifying refactoring rules. The project was that good integrated into NetBeans that it looked dead from the ...
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JogAmp at SIGGRAPH 2010

Michael Bien posted an article on - May 23, 2010, 3:17 pm
The JogAmp team will be present at SIGGRAPH this year: 3D & Multimedia Across Platforms and Devices Using JOGL Tuesday, 27 July | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM This session discusses the features, contributions, and future of OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenMax across devices and OS expo...
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NetBeans GIT support

Michael Bien posted an article on - Sep 6, 2009, 11:15 am
If you are using GIT as SCM and NetBeans as IDE you should probably check out NBGit. The plugin integrates GIT in NetBeans in the same way as the out of the box Mercurial support does it. In fact both modules have the same origin since nbgit is a fork of the mercurial integration project and i...
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JOGL 2 - OpenGL Profiles explained

Michael Bien posted an article on - Aug 22, 2009, 2:20 pm
June 16 2010, updated blogpost: OpenGL 4 JOGL 2 supports several OpenGL Profiles. In this blog entry I try to explain what profiles are and why they are needed. History SGI released the first OpenGL specification 1992. Since this point OpenGL 1.x constantly evolved (under th...
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XPath plugin now available via NetBeans plugin portal

Michael Bien posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 6:18 pm
The XPath Utility I submitted to the NetBeans Plugin Portal over two months ago has been recently verified against NetBeans 6.7. This makes the plugin now directly available from within the IDE over the Plugin manager (Tools -> Plugins). One .nbm less to carry with me ...
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Object Pooling - Determinism vs. Throughput

Michael Bien posted an article on - Aug 5, 2009, 6:08 pm
Object pooling in java is often seen as an anti pattern and/or wasted effort - but there are still valid reasons to think about pooling for certain kind of applications. The JVM allocates objects much faster from managed heap (young generation; contiguous and defragmented) as you could ever ...
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NetBeans OpenGL Pack 0.5.5 released

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 29, 2009, 12:58 pm
The NetBeans 6.7 compatible OpenGL Pack has been updated to version 0.5.5 and is now available on the plugin portal also. The current release is feature compatible with 0.5.4 (release notes) only JOGL and project webstart extensions have been updated to JOGL 1.1.1a security update.
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Using Applets as fallback mode for video on pre html5 browsers

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 23, 2009, 1:04 pm
The upcoming html5 standard will make it very easy to embed media of not proprietary formats in webpages. For example video can be embedded in the same way you would probably do it with an image. But what happens when your browser does not support html5 yet? Firstly: don't ...
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Java EE 6 - The Salvation

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 16, 2009, 8:38 am
My Brother Adam Bien released his new book Real World Java EE Patterns - Rethinking Best Practices yesterday. It is available as download or softcover. I am sure you will like it. (all in english) You can testread the first two chapters here, more infos are on his blog. He will check in all sample...
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OpenGL Pack 0.5.4 now ready for NetBeans 6.7

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 14, 2009, 2:38 pm
NetBeans OpenGL Pack 0.5.4 is now ready to be used in the upcoming NetBeans 6.7 release, currently as rc2 available. It wasn't sure if we would be able to ship the GLSL editor in this release since NetBeans 6.7 changed the editor APIs once again. But fortunately the P1 bug was fixed in time a...
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JavaOne 09 keynote replays and technical session slides available

Michael Bien posted an article on - Jun 6, 2009, 9:57 am
For those who haven't watched to the keynotes live or per live stream can now watch the replays of all general sessions (on your favourite screen of your live - sorry couldn't resist ;)). The good thing about that is: you can hit the fast forward button as soon as the marketing guys start talking ;...
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XPath NetBeans plugin

Michael Bien posted an article on - May 26, 2009, 4:21 pm
I built some time ago a NetBeans plugin which simplifies browsing through large xml documents a bit. Just start typing a XPath expression in the text field of the TopComponent and the result of the (last) xml editor in focus are computed and printed in the textarea below. (You can open the XPa...
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