Mark Stephens

• https://www.idrsolutions.com Mark founded the company and has worked with Java and PDF since 1997. The original creator of the core code, he is also a NetBeans enthusiast who enjoys speaking at conferences and reading. He holds an Athletics Blue and an MA in Mediaeval History from St. Andrews University.

195 Stories by Mark Stephens

Hacking the NetBeans IDE – 2. Dynamically reload modules into NetBeans IDE

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking...

September 10, 2018 32 sec read

Hacking the NetBeans IDE – 1. Getting NetBeans up and Running from source

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking...

September 3, 2018 49 sec read

Introducing our new Japanese distributor

At IDRsolutions, we are always looking for ways to improve the service we can provide to our clients. One of the things we are...

July 2, 2018 56 sec read

Is moving NetBeans to Apache good or bad news?

As a keen NetBeans user with no affiliation to Oracle or any vested interest (IDRsolutions – my company – pays my salary and I am...

September 29, 2016 1 min read

A timely lesson on why it is a bad idea to edit a PDF file directly

At IDR Solutions whilst working on some files we found we had a very good example last week to show why it is a...

March 22, 2016 58 sec read

Understanding the PDF File Format: Document and Page level

In my latest article on “Understanding the PDF File Format”, I want to to give you a better understanding of how a PDF file is...

December 29, 2015 1 min read