JamesBranam's Blog
Check the Version First
Hi NetBeaners,
I've mentioned a few times in my blog how important it is to check the version before starting a tutorial. It's quite frustrating to get halfway through a tutorial only to find out that it won't work. You scroll back up to the top of the tutorial only to find what you'd feared: you were using the wrong version of the tutorial.
The release of NetBeans IDE 6.1 has presented us writers with an interesting situation. Some tutorials work only with NetBeans 6.0, others only with 6.1, and some with both. To get the message out which tutorial works with which version of the IDE, a series of stamps was created. They say it all:
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There are other changes as well. A new resource table has been added to tutorials with the applicable version of NetBeans, Java, and other resources. All in all, I think that you find the new tutorial format a little easier on the eyes.
See you tomorrow.
--James
Posted at 04:28PM Apr 24, 2008 by branajam in NetBeans | Comments[5]
When is the final release of Netbeans 6.1? It was slated for 4/23, but that date has passed.
Posted by Abraham Tehrani on April 24, 2008 at 06:51 PM CEST #
My problem is when I installed a new version (6.1rc2) and ran it, and let it use the old version's properties, by default the new version will also open all the projects which in old version, and so it destroyed the old IDE's ability to open the "old" projects. (NetBeans 6.0 won't be able to run the old project (hellogwt) which created on it and was running well before 6.1rc2 open it).
Can I suggest that we just let the new version of IDE using the existing version's properties, but not open any projects, and let the user do it?
Posted by Jack on April 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM CEST #
why NetBeans 6.1 doesn't release now?
the roadmap shows it release on apir 23rd
Posted by gml520 on April 25, 2008 at 03:30 AM CEST #
It looks like Monday might be the new release date. However, this is unofficial information.
Posted by James on April 25, 2008 at 04:01 PM CEST #
Hi James,
The point you raised is really a valid one, and this lets us think, whether the doc writers at Community Docs got the right to use these images.
This would really help in categorizing docs on the basis of versions.
What say?
Regards,
Varun
Posted by Varun Nischal on April 27, 2008 at 04:18 PM CEST #