Drupal development
in NetBeans

What is NetBeans?

• Open source IDE initially developed for Java

See a full history here:
http://netbeans.org/about/history.html

Why do I use it?

• It's free!
• Detailed documentation, active community
• Works on all OS (even Windows)
• I'm used to it
  

What are some features?

• Xdebug
• Documentation auto-generation
• Easy search
• Easy to navigate to function declarations,
  class overrides
• Has Twig and Symphony2 plugins
  (and many others)
  

What are some issues?

• Not built for PHP
• Resource hog
• Not terribly pretty
  

More info:

https://drupal.org/node/1019816