NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) increases developer productivity with a smarter, faster editor, Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails support, enhancements for improved Swing development, a new Visual Game Designer, updated Data Binding support, integrated Profiling, and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris, is open-source and free. NetBeans 6.0 is The only IDE you need! Visit the official website www.NetBeans.org for more information.

Survey: Is NetBeans IDE 6.1 Ready for FCS?
NetBeans 6.1 Release Candidate 1 has been published, and this is the ideal time for the final Community Acceptance Survey. The purpose of this survey is to find out if the NetBeans community deems NetBeans 6.1 RC1 as ready for FCS--or not.Thus we are asking everyone who has used RC1 and has developed a solid opinion about it to login to netbeans.org and take the short survey, which will be available until Wednesday 4/16 midnight in the last timezone. Thanks for your feedback!

NetBeans, Ruby and AppleScript
Mac Developer Tips blogger John Muchow describes how to use NetBeans and rb-appscript (a bridge to connect Ruby to the Apple Event Manager) to control scriptable applications on a Mac. This introduction shows how you can get started using Ruby as an alternative to AppleScript for scripting applications on Mac OS X.
  (Apr 07, 2008)

NetBeans Plugin Portal functionality extended
NetBeans.org has announced that new version of Plugin Portal was published and features the following improvements:

• Verification process for publishing plugins on Plugin Portal Update Center built in NetBeans IDE
• Email notifications
• Comments management
• Login/Search buttons work on Enter and lots more