Status line elements order, build number and other thips

Some time ago I read this interview to Emilian Bold
http://platform.netbeans.org/articles/nbm_interview_emilian.html

here you can learn some useful tips (like the build number version I was looking for).

Hiding tabs

Follow the Geertjan post:
http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/farewell_to_space_consuming_weird
you can know how to hide the tabs on your NB applications.

Hide close button

Here is a little tip about how to hide the close button in the tabs.
As you can read here the sentences are:

System.setProperty("netbeans.tab.close.button.enabled","false");
System.setProperty("nb.tabs.suppressCloseButton","true");

but I put it the 'restored()' method of my ModuleInstall class and it works fine.

Here you can find a more extensive list of options.

Be worry with PixelGrabber

Recently my friend Fran (that is working on an amazing project) talk me about the perils of PixelGrabber. I use it in my Balloon project and after looking up for a while I found this post:
PixelGrabber is too slow and has memory problems!

You can read some example using BufferedImage instead PixelGrabber and, at the end, an explanation post about the old 1.0 Java image API.