NetbeansIntro & Demo

@drupalwa

Who's used Netbeans

And then un-installed it?

What else do people use?

Editors

• Lots around! o Lightweight: Textmate,

Coda, Geeny, Notepad++, EditPlus, vi, nano, emac's.

Real IDE's

• IDE - before SATA? ;)• Zend Studio• Netbeans• Visual Studio (.NET)

Netbeans Features 1

•Out of Box syntax highlighting with live error detection for php, js, html, css

•Project browser, multi projects

Netbeans Features 2

•Code Navigator

•Code Indexing with auto suggest - killer feature

•Plugin Library

Netbeans Features 3

•Git, SVN, HG - live change indicators

•Cross Platform

•GPL

•Debugging! In a sec

Tips 1

•local server stack for better indexing performance

•Coding Standards: drupal.org/node/1019819

Tips 2

•Google: "Netbeans & Drupal plugin" (by HollyIT) - code generation, drush console, quick api lookup

Bad Stuff

•Uses about 150-500MB RAM.

•Git workflow kinda slow - personally prefer git cmd line

Debug Demo

•local stack + xdebug

•Google: configure netbeans & debug (or: http://wiki.netbeans.org/HowToConfigureXDebug)

Other Stuff

•Database Controls

•Unit Testing?

•phpdoc/doxygen?

Thanks for listening!

@alexbergin