Jan 09
Well, my demo license of IntelliJ IDEA is over as of two days ago, and I need another platform to develop at least until I can purchase a license (which can take a few good months). So, hearing a lot about the new Beta 2 of NetBeans, I’ve decided to try it out.
I will probably post something about it soon. I am coming with low expectations, to be frank, and I have unjustifiable reasons. I am prejudice against NetBeans because I used it in a very early version a long time ago and had a really bad experience; However, first impressions are always the ones to last and I am sorry to be affected by them as well.
Liked Chaotic Java? It's free! But I also make some other things that aren't, which you might like. Like Firewall, a rule changing, turn based strategy game for iOS.
January 9th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
You might be interested in the NetBeans mailing lists/newsgroups – you can sign up for nbusers on the NetBeans web site (community section); or with Thunderbird or another newsreader, get to them from news://news.gmane.org – just search for “netbeans”
-Tim
January 10th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Contact our sales at jetbrains dot com and we will extend your evaluation for two more months.
January 10th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Contact our sales (at) jetbrains (dot) com and we will extend your evaluation for two more months.
January 10th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
[...] Just like Roumen posted, the IDE wars are at such pace that I was offered two free extra months using IntelliJ IDEA. [...]
January 10th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Thanks, both Alex and Tim!
Alex – Since I enjoy working with IDEA a lot, I humbly take your offer.
Tim – I still want to check out NetBeans, and so I shall, perhaps not for the X2J project I’m writing currently though.
January 11th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
[...] I want to first thank Alex Tkachman for his extremely quick reply to my post, allowing me to have another two months with what I consider to be the best Java IDE out there, and in fact – The best IDE out there. [...]