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Netbeans 6.5 short follow up
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Loading ...Ok a very short follow up on my previous Netbeans 6.5 impression. Previously I stated that I had some serious problems with the debugging. It failed to indicate which line I was on.
After some research and some more debugging this only appears to happen when debugging jsp files or jspf files. For a beta that is something I can live with. Beyond that the debugger works like a charm.
I did however found some other issues:
- Randomly crashes when right clicking in the project view, seems to have something to do with the parsing of the tree that renders the window.
- You cannot use code completion inside a switch clause. The autocomplete crashes.
- Random crashes when debugging and selecting static variables for modifying their values in code.
To be fair I have to say I never got Netbeans itself to crash. But you do get an exception window that asks you to file a bug report.
Netbeans 6.5 Beta
Since I have to use Netbeans at my work, I always try and find the best version for me. In my case this means a version that runs quickly and is sorta stable. Since the new Netbeans 6.5 beta was released I decided to give it a shot.
First things I was seriously hoping was that they fixed the bug with Netbeans not recognizing the names of function parameters of libraries. This is a problem which got me so pissed that I switched back from Netbeans 6 to 5.5, which did not have the problem. Both Netbeans 6.0 and Netbeans 6.1 had the same problem with function parameters.
Let’s just say that on this they did not disapoint. The new Beta version has got no issues recognizing the names of function parameters. So that’s a serious improvement of the previous releases. I also like the new style for debugging and code editing.
The only real issues so far are the fact that with large web applications Netbeans 6.5 constantly hangs and stops responding. Another issue is that the debugger does not highlight the line that it’s on. The latter is probably a simple fix, but it does make debugging slightly difficult.
So lets wait and see if some of these issues get resolved in the final release.
Working On WordPress Mobile plugin
A while back I got some questions if it was possible to create a more mobile friendly version of this blog. Appearantly I have several visitors that are browsing using mobile devices. And I must say my design is not user friendly for them.
Off course they are right, any user should be able to access this blog. Be it from a mobile phone or a computer. So I had to find a way to offer my mobile visitors a better experience. First thing to do that is looking into the wordpress.org plugin library. There are a lot of plugins available for a lot of different things. There had to be some for switching the display to mobile when a mobile device is detected.
And there are. I first tried WordPress Mobile Edition which is pretty good. Big issues I had with it are that it’s not as light weight as I want it to be. And the coding is crappy! But beyond that it does what it’s supposed to.
But me being a developer I decided to write my own little plugin to offer a mobile version of this blog. Fully customizable using templates and settings in the admin menu. I haven’t yet completed the entire design, nor is the admin part working ;). But it’s currently running on this blog :D. If you want to check it out just add ‘?mobile=true’ to any page or visit using your phone.
When I’m done developing the plugin I’ll share with you all how you can write a simple WordPress plugin. I will also publish the plugin for anyone to download, for free!!!
So stay tuned for an update…….
