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A nice Wizard Lib

How bad can a Sky HD Box be?

In 4 weeks, I am now on my fourth Sky HD box... and the refurbished one that has been installed today needs to be replaced because it does not recognize the telephone line.
I am so fed up with Sky, their support and their unreliable HD Boxes.
It is just unbelievable: 4 boxes died in 4 weeks. They obviously sub-contract the replacement of the boxes to another company, and the poor guys are given refurbished boxes that are not working well. Last time, the engineer brought a box to replace the faulty one. This box did not receive satellite signals, so he had to fetch another one from the van.... Oh dear.
How bad can it be?

Ultimatum: if my current box fails again, I am moving to Virgin Media!

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NetBeans 6.1 cont’d

Something that will make me move away from NetBeans is the debugger.
While you are debugging, especially if you have breakpoint conditions, NetBeans becomes unsuable, and takes 30 to 50% of the CPU.. What is going on there?

NetBeans 6.1

NetBeans 6.1 RC1

I have been playing (coding) with NetBeans for 1 month now; using the latest 6.1 builds, up the latest release candidate.

I think they have delivered a very good tool.. but there are still a few things that annoy me (may be because I do not know how to configure it .. too many years using Eclipse):

• People praise the editor, but compared to Eclipse, it is still slower, and a bit clumsy.
• Completion does not always work. Sometimes you have to stop, delete and re-type the field, method or property followed by dot (CTRL-SPACE does not always work)
• In “Projects”, I’d still you like to have the possibility to see non-source folders (without having the need to go to “Files”
• When I project is closed, I would still like to be able to see it… and not disappear from the “Projects” view.
• When creating groups, it is not explicit in the “Projects” view, which projects belong to which groups. I think we need another level (another node) in the display tree.
• When there are several projects, belonging to the same group, the IDE does not recompile the dependencies properly. You have to explicitly recompile the project.
• The tags for the Java files nodes in the “Projects” view are not always in sync with the editor: you can have a valid Java source file, but the file is tagged as red, you have to explicitly recompile (clean and build) for the red tag to disappear.
• I need a Perforce plug-in for NetBeans, is there any?
• By default, the fonts are too big. NetBeans looks clumsy, big (margins too wide, etc.) there is a sense of space being wasted on the GUI.
• I am not really keen on the views Output, Usages, Search Results… I think they should be proper tabbed panes if you have them together.
• Something that really does not look professional (compared to Eclipse) is the result of compilation when there are errors. Eclipse displays them in a nice table, where you can set up the warning level, etc. NetBeans just uses a JTextArea of some sort that looks ugly!
• NetBeans do not handle Generics very well. Part of the previous point would be to allow warning in a table a la Eclipse.

I am starting to like the IDE. A lot of work has been put into it, and they shall not rest until it is perfect ;-)

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