Opera 9

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Jun 242006
 

Opera 9 is here. It’s a very good new version, but what I don’t like:

  • you cannot drag&drop your toolbars (like in any other program)
  • you cannot right-click a link and open-in-new-tab (like in FireFox)
  • it automatically sorts bookmarks that are grouped in folders. I want it to remember MY order.
  • no del.icio.us buttons (it’s a FireFox extension)

What I do like:

  • Copy a link and then Paste&Go
  • Quick Preferences (F12)
  • Close button on every tab (just like JDeveloper)
  • Thumbnail preview of the page when hovering over a tab
  • Tabs close in the order they were opened
 Posted by at 00:23

Mustang beta 2

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Jun 162006
 

Yesterday Mustang (Java SE 6) beta 2 was released. I like the fact that it supports scripting. And of course JDBC 4.0. Read the top 10 features here.

 Posted by at 11:33

What do you use, to create AJAX?

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Jun 072006
 

AJAX is the buzzword lately. And it will be for quite some time, I guess. But JavaScript used to be very underrated before AJAX became such a hype, and it shows in IDE support. A lot of text/html editors know the JavaScript syntax, but when it comes to codecomplete or even debugging, it seems the webdeveloper is left out in the cold.
Oracle’s JDeveloper only has syntax-coloring support for JavaScript. Netbeans has a (third-party) module that does basically the same. What other options are there? Is Visual Web Developer a viable option? And which ones are in the “affordable/free” range? Please comment.

 Posted by at 23:20