Netbeans Intro &

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/

Tips 2 Google: "Netbeans & Drupal plugin" (by HollyIT) - code generation, drush console, quick api lookup

Bad Stuff Uses about MB RAM. Git workflow kinda slow - personally prefer git cmd line

Debug Demo local stack + xdebug Google: configure netbeans & debug (or: HowToConfigureXDebu g)

Other Stuff Database Controls Unit Testing? phpdoc/doxygen?

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