2. So you can’t afford DreamWeaver — Symbioxys, 8/18 Xander Erkamp said that when NetBeans 6.5 releases, you could just download the full installer and PHP would be integrated. Xander noted, "NetBeans is a one stop shop for a developer on the road to open source freedom."
3. NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta for PHP Developers — More Than Scratch The Surface, 8/18 Stephen Cronin said that the NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta had just been released and that it now catered to PHP developers. He noted that NetBeans is small to download, has built in debugger, and further added, "There’s no doubt that NetBeans is the one to seriously consider."
4. Maven-like Dependency Management for NetBeans Projects — David Heffelfinger’s Notes on Software Development, Technology, and Life, 8/17 David Heffelfinger became a NetBeans fan because of its outstanding support for Maven. He noted that as he worked with NetBeans he came to appreciate many of its features, such as Visual Web JSF development, JSF CRUD generation, automatic generation of JPA entities from an existing schema, etc.
5. NetBeans 6.5 Beta — Narnio, 8/16 The blogger said that NetBeans 6.5 Beta fixed a bug in recognizing the names of function parameters that he’d been experiencing from version 5.5. The blogger also liked the new style for debugging and code editing. The blogger added that with larger web applications NetBeans 6.5 hung and stopped responding.
6. NetBeans 6.5 PHP edition — ActiveCodeline, 8/15 Branko Ajzele said that good code completion is one of the features he expects in a good IDE and he found that in NetBeans 6.5 it looks awesome. Branko said that there are still some issues with NetBeans; but he felt more comfortable now, using NetBeans than using Zend or NuSpere.
7. NetBeans 6.5 impressive ~! — My Brain Served !, 8/15 Chandra Garre said that the C++ development features in NetBeans 6.5 Beta were very impressive and that it had excellent code completion. He noted that he preferred NetBeans 6.5 Beta to VC 2008, but added VC uses less RAM.
8. NetBeans development process rocks! — Van Couvering Is Not a Verb, 8/14 After more than 17 years of working on large software projects, David Van Couvering felt that NetBeans had one of the best development processes he’d ever seen, and commented, "NetBeans follows a beautiful middle path – not too much process, but not too little."
9. NetBeans 6.5 beta is out — Not Geekly Correct, 8/13 The blogger said that he used NetBeans 6.1 to develop on Ruby on Rails and found its editor to be, "fantastic and powerful." The blogger noted that 6.5 was faster than 6.1, and that its PHP/JS support worked very well.
10. NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta – Auto Download for Subversion Client 1.5 in Windows — NetBeans, 8/13 Tushar Joshi pointed out that the NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta no longer needed a Subversion client installed on a Windows XP machine. Tushar commented that the NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta took a good step by providing the bundled Subversion client, making the installation and use of Subversion even easier.
11. NetBeans 6.5 Beta Is Available…Grab It and Test! — The JJ Blogger – Java, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and More…, 8/13 Josh Juneau had been testing NetBeans 6.5 Beta and felt that users would be pleased with the latest release. Josh liked the Groovy/Grails support, and added that users would appreciate the automatic deploy on save feature.
12. NetBeans 6.5 Beta Released — Sunny Talks Tech, 8/13 According to Saptarshi Purkayastha, NetBeans is "the only IDE that you need." He noted that new features were quickly implemented and each development team coordinated with all the quality managers and community to get the best features out in this version. Saptarshi commented, "The new database tools for designing queries, and viewing connections, tables, views, procedures is great. It’s still a work in progress, but I must say it’s a pretty good job for a first-time release." |