By now, gentle readers, you have probably seen the Javamancy mini post about the one-liner deletion for .svn files. I really like Adam Bien. He seems like a nice guy, and I occasionally drop by his blog, on a lark, to read his stuff, which is often focused on Java and NetBeans, one of our [...]
NetBeans
After several weeks, the long-awaited update to NetBeans 6.7, now with JavaFX support, is finally released to the general public. As you may recall, it was our expert recommendation to NOT uninstall or replace your NetBeans 6.5/6.5.1 IDE if you are actively developing for the JavaFX platform, since it was not available as a feature [...]
The latest version of NetBeans, version 6.7, is now available. Its arrival matches that of its archrival, the Eclipse “Galileo” tool suite.
Like the previous major NetBeans release, this one presents both opportunities and pitfalls that developers and managers must carefully consider.
Yesterday, the Eclipse Consortium officially released the sixth major release of the IDE, Eclipse “Galileo”. While Eclipse was originally developed to support Java development, it has experienced phenomenal growth and expansion to encompass a wide variety of programming languages and architectures. Since it has broad industry support from a galaxy of IT companies and groups, [...]
Here’s a fun news bit, on the cusp of the upcoming FCS release of NetBeans 6.7: Just when you thought you’d heard everything about declarative programming on the NetBeans platform… there’s the “rise” of Scheme, as both a dev language supported on NetBeans technology and as an implementation of an alternative NetBeans-based IDE on its own. LambdaBeans [...]
The Setup As many of you know, I use NetBeans. A lot. And, of course, I also use a variety of other Java-based IDE’s, like Oracle’s JDeveloper and the Eclipse platforms. But I really like NetBeans because it, like JDeveloper, has that unified IDE feel that Eclipse doesn’t (I always feel like there’s something else [...]
It’s been awhile in coming, but it’s finally here: NetBeans 6.5. Like many of you, I’ve been itching to have a plethora of development capabilities integrated into a single unified interface that does not require me to constantly scour the Internet, or several different vendors’ sites, or even just constantly ping around various different “repositories”, [...]
