I have been using Netbeans PHP because it has auto-completion and it really speeds you up when you write PHP code,
Other than that you can’t believe how awful Netbeans PHP is, it sucks so hard because the FTP support is highly flawed
Suppose you work on a Project with another developer, he made a change, you made a change, Netbeans overwrites the previous change, there is no version control
Suppose other developer created a new php file, in order to download it you have to download all the folder, if the folder doesnt exist you have to download all the Project!!
Additional to these, today (an hour ago) I deleted a folder in one of my projects, not realizing another folder was also selected in an other project
This other folder is the Main Project Folder of a Facebook Application with 400k Monthly active users!!
Guess what? When i delete that other folder, my main application folder also got deleted and at the same time they are deleted from the FTP!! (Yes, i use On Save on Netbeans)
I immediately called my partner, asking him to restore the files if he had them, he uses Zend Studio so i was also afraid he didn’t have the files because Zend, unlike Netbeans works perfectly from FTP, so i wasn’t sure if Zend had the files, fortunately my partner had the files, but not the images
While we were talking, I right-clicked the mouse on My Project Folder, and I saw an option named “Restore Previous Versions”, I didn’t even told Windows 7 to save back-ups, fortunately it did.
I restored files to 26 hours before the delete, thats the time when i last edited the files and thats it Netbeans fucked up the day and Windows 7 saved it.
It’s not the first time Windows helped me like this, there are occasions one of my External hard disks fails, Linux etc can’t do anything to open them, when i plug the hard disk to a windows, and on boot wait >6 hours, windows fixes the hard disk
Time after time, I love Windows.
What about Linux? Well I hate linux because it consumes a high percentage of your time, because it needs to be tweaked and debugged a lot, so I have a Fedora 7 VM on VirtualBox, which I use for Linux specific stuff like C/C++ programming, other than that Windows is ideal
Recent Comments