Archive for August, 2008

Published by Adam Myatt on 19 Aug 2008

Participating with NetCat65 and testing SQL History in NetBeans 6.5

I was recently added to the list of folks participating with the NetCat 65 program, NetBeans 6.5 Community Acceptance Testing described here : http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/

So far, my experience has been quite positive. I’ve seen a number of folks testing all aspects on NetBeans such as usability, bugs, new features, and more. My current focus has been on the database tools added as part of NetBeans 6.5 (currently in Beta). The SQL History tool is pretty interesting, in that it stores the complete list of SQL you have executed.

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Published by Adam Myatt on 14 Aug 2008

NetBeans 6.5 Beta Released

The NetBeans team has announced the availability of NetBeans 6.5 Beta.

Some new and improved features include :

  • PHP version of the IDE
  • Improved Eclipse project import
  • Compile on Save / Deploy on Save
  • Groovy and Grails support
  • and much more!

Check out the official release page : http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/