1. Netbeans Intro & Demo @drupalwa

2. Who's used Netbeans And then un-installed it?

3. What else do people use?

4. Editors Lots around! o Lightweight: Textmate, Coda, Geeny, Notepad++, EditPlus, vi, nano, emac's.

5. Real IDE's IDE - before SATA? ;) Zend Studio Netbeans Visual Studio (.NET)

6. Netbeans Features 1 Out of Box syntax highlighting with live error detection for php, js, html, css Project browser, multi projects

7. Netbeans Features 2 Code Navigator Code Indexing with auto suggest - killer feature Plugin Library

8. Netbeans Features 3 Git, SVN, HG - live change indicators Cross Platform GPL Debugging! In a sec

9. Tips 1 local server stack for better indexing performance Coding Standards: drupal.org/node/101981 9

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

11. Bad Stuff Uses about 150-500MB RAM. Git workflow kinda slow - personally prefer git cmd line

12. Debug Demo local stack + xdebug Google: configure netbeans & debug (or: http://wiki.netbeans.org/ HowToConfigureXDebu g)

13. Other Stuff Database Controls Unit Testing? phpdoc/doxygen?

14. Thanks for listening! @alexbergin