[Cialug] NetBeans on Flash Drive

[Todd Pierce]

Barry, Scott,

Okay... so I tried Cameyo and the message I got was this:
File exceeds your size limit: 181 MB. Your limit is 30 MB.

This kind of makes sense since a file like
jdk-7u10-nb-7_2_1-windows-i586-ml.exe actually *is *pretty big.

Regarding Eclipse, well, I really think that I might have to depend on the
GUI that NetBeans has to offer.  I'm really not a rocket scientist when it
comes to GUI applications to start with, and I'm not exactly Mr. Super Java
Developer anyway.

Still, I'm open to any and all suggestions from you guys, since like I
said, I'm in a bind.

Sincerely,

-Todd




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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:

> I don't know how it compares to NetBeans, but eclipse is very portable, it
> just unzips to a directory
>
>
> -barry
>
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Todd Pierce wrote:
>
> > Crew,
> >
> > This is not exactly on topic (linux) but I'm in a bit of a bind with
> > NetBeans and you're the smartest people I know.
> >
> > A guy hired me to develop a Java app and the best approach seems to be to
> > develop it using NetBeans (7.2.1).  The bind is that I'm not only
> homeless,
> > but I have generally gotten into the habit of working off of a flash
> drive
> > using whatever Windows machine is convenient.  Lots of decent software
> > works perfectly well when installed on these things... except NetBeans.
> >
> > When I start NetBeans I get the opening screen, it reports it can't open
> a
> > lot of modules then simply goes away.
> >
> > I'm going to dive in deep and hunt around the Web (and config files) for
> > solutions to this, but since hundreds of dollars (which could get me off
> > the street) hinge on this, I figured I'd plant this idea in your heads in
> > case someone has ideas that stop me from barking up wrong trees or
> killing
> > my brain unnecessarily before I even get to start the project.
> >
> > Any help you guys can offer is appreciated.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > -Todd
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