NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #552 - Aug 27, 2012)

Project News

Mark your calendars: NetBeans Community Day returns to JavaOne! Join the NetBeans team, developers and users, September 30th for a full day dedicated to all things NetBeans. Find out what's new in the IDE and Platform, and how a wide range of companies are using NetBeans technology to deliver innovative applications. (NetBeans Community Day is free to registered JavaOne conference attendees.)

Tutorials

Learn to refactor code in the NetBeans IDE Java Editor using various refactoring operations available in the IDE.

An overview of NetBeans IDE's support for the Mercurial Queues extension.

A tutorial on integrating PHPUnit and Selenium with NetBeans IDE for writing automated tests. The document also includes demonstration of Code Coverage and the IDE's test result UI.

Articles

Prefer to work from the keyboard rather than use a mouse? Here are eight additional new keyboard shortcuts available in NetBeans IDE 7.2.

KLISS and Legend, two Java-based legislative applications built on the NetBeans Platform, are finalists for the NASCIO 2012 Awards which recognize successful information technology initiatives in state governments across the United States.

Training

Using Tinkerforge as a project, get an introduction to the nuts and bolts of the NetBeans Platform in this 3-day training course in Nordhorn/Lingen, Germnay.

Blogs

Two new improvements to PHP Smarty Framework coming up in the next release--NetBeans IDE 7.3.

Watch this video series and be in the know about slick but hidden aspects of the NetBeans IDE that can help you be more productive.

Developer Hermien Pellissier unearths new improvements to bracket matching in the NetBeans IDE.