Another cool NetBeans theme

I really like a dark background in my IDE. I previously mentioned the Aloha theme for NetBeans. I've been using if for a while.

Yesterday I found a version of Twilight for NetBeans. This one is set up for PHP, but works pretty well for Python. It is tweakable of course too.

Cool NetBeans Plugin

Last week at AJUG's Devnexus conference Venkat Subramanium made an interesting point about IDEs.

He asked how many of the people in attendance used Eclipse. Unsurprisingly almost everyone raised a hand.

Then he asked how many of us would use it if it cost $500. Almost all of the hands dropped, including mine.

I downloaded NetBeans and IntelliJ.

I had used NetBeans for a while before. One thing I liked was its themes. I like light text on a dark background.

I found this theme, Aloha, and installed it. Pretty nice.

NetBeans 6.5 and svn+ssh on a Mac

I've been playing with NetBeans occaisonally. I couldn't stand it a couple of years ago. However, after Sun's Tech Days in Atlanta I decided to give it a try.

Besides, I wanted to verify a clean checkout, build, test cycle.

We use svn over ssh at work. It was a headache to get this running with NetBeans. I didn't completely succeed either.

This post has a nice tutorial from a Rails perspective. I started here. I was able to checkout fine. But when I right clicked -> Subversion -> Update I got an error stating that ssh_askpass couldn't be found.

I did some digging around. This post is a great discussion about Leopard and ssh.

I checked out this tutorial from the NetBeans site. I was pretty annoyed that I hadn't found an answer so I clicked the update button. It worked.

I can't reproduce the error now. Right clicking the project and running an update has worked since I updated from the button.

So in the event that you hit this post while having the same problems, run an update from the button.

Netbeans Keyboard Shortcuts

I've been using Netbeans some recently after a the Sun Tech Days (Atlanta) and an AJUG presentation on Glassfish. Barry Hawkins' announcement at last night's (April) AJUG meeting about upcoming Python support really piqued my interest and made me decide to get comfortable using it.

My biggest annoyance when switching IDEs is not knowing the keyboard shortcuts. I despise the mouse and keep it on the left side of my desk (I'm right handed) - a Neal Ford suggestion. There is a pdf of shortcuts accessible from Netbeans' help menu, but there is a more complete list available on their wiki.

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