I tracked the progress of the Ruby / Rails support on Netbeans when you were building it Tor and was stunned at how quickly it seemed to come together and surpass the Eclipse plugin at the time.
Hats off to you... It's been many a time when I wished you'd done the JavaFX support. *sigh* On Jul 1, 3:13 am, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 30, 2:01 am, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 17:43, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And I'm sure everybody is > > > aware that I am not neutral in the IDE "wars" having personally worked > > > on NetBeans, I still build it from source every morning and actively > > > submit bugs and patches. > > > I didn't know that! - That is cool. So by this occasion let me thank > > you for your work on making NetBeans better. - If you have time once > > for a remote session I would like to show you something happening with > > my projects when they are linked together. There is somehow an > > automatic clean & build done instead of a build only - at least it > > looks like. I am willing to pay a donation in exchange for your time. > > Just to be clear, I -used- to work on NetBeans (specifically, Ruby, > JavaScript, and infrastructure for editing used by some other > languages), but I don't anymore; I'm working on the JavaFX Authoring > Tool now. I build NetBeans every morning while catching up on IRC logs > etc just to get the latest bits for my own usage, not to actively work > on it! (My patches have been for things I want - like javafx source > file spell checking). > > > Yes, I agree with you. But I am simply too lazy to switch and I do > > wory more that Eclipse may destroy something in my files (as I > > experienced creation of corrupted jars for example in the past). > > One feature which has saved me more than once is the Local History > (Team > Local History >). It saves each and every -saved- version of > your file, and you can go back and pick (and diff) previous versions. > It makes it easy to go back to a previous editing version in case you > do something stupid (but hadn't checked into version control the > correct earlier point). Not too long ago I accidentally deleted a > source tree, and discovered I had no backup of my recent edits! > Luckily I could use the Local File history feature (which saves the > deltas in your userdir rather than with the sources) to recover my > precious edits! > > However, by default it only saves very recent edits - the last 7 days > I think. I went and bumped that way up - to 120 days or something like > that. > > -- Tor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
