Registering local DTDs or XML schemas with NetBeans

The NetBeans online help describes the steps for registering a local DTD or XML file with NetBeans’ DTDs and XML Schemas Manager. It’s succinct and to the point, but for the slow people in the room it’s a bit confusing. So here’s my tip for registering a local DTD file with NetBeans so that you can use NetBeans’ awesome XML validation and completion features.

NetBeans 6.5 and Python

NetBeans 6.5 is out! You can run it with the Nimbus look and feel too! There’s also an Early Access plugin for Python. All very nice.

I recently had occasion to play with some Python at work (a small script to do some configurations, and I didn’t want to do them in bash), so I took the time to get all of this set up. It’s all so very easy and not worth writing about. However I thought that the interactive debugger (which is awesome, btw) has a small issue that needs resolving. Mean-time, here’s a work-around.

Switching to Java JDK 6u10

I’ve been using 6u10 beta for a while and keeping 6u3 as my main JDK. It’s also the default JDK for NetBeans but now that update 10 of Mustang is out of beta, it’s time for me to ditch 6u3 and swtich to 6u10 final.

NetBeans turns 10

It’s NetBeans’ 10th birthday and to celebrate I thought I’d write a quick blog post about how I use the NetBeans IDE to develop Dvorcode.