NetBeans IDE

In the NetBeans 7.2 IDE development builds another cool change is the ability to switch between more than just source files with Ctrl+Tab. For example, now you can switch between source and design views for Swing forms, and to non-source windows. Go ahead, try it out! 🙂 I have not forgotten about my series of … Read more

One of the fun things about using the latest development builds of the NetBeans IDE is discovering the small new features that make life easier. And of course letting everybody else know about them. 🙂 So today I was playing around with the latest development build for 7.2 (build 201203180400) and I found something small … Read more

There is one bug in the NetBeans IDE that has been my nemesis ever since upgrading to Windows Vista 64-bit back in the day: #177820. In short, this bug means that no output is shown when an application is executed with a 64-bit JVM. There is luckily a work-around – setting up the IDE to … Read more

The NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT) for NetBeans 7.2 kicked off today! This is an opportunity for community members to help make the NetBeans IDE even better, while meeting interesting people from around the world and learning a bit about how the NetBeans development and QA teams work. If you are interested in joining … Read more

Observing developers at work in the NetBeans IDE, I have noticed that the project groups feature is perhaps not as well known as one might expect. Despite being listed as one of the Base IDE features. 🙂 Quickly opening up a set of related projects is a very useful feature indeed, if you work on … Read more