Friday, October 10, 2003

Of IDEs and Editors I just found Bradley O'Hearne's 10 Reasons to Dump Your Java IDE. Not being a big IDE proponent, I felt justified in reading this article. Even if some of the arguments aren't very strong. Check out the counter-point: 10 Reasons (Not) to Dump Your Java IDE. My latest frustration with IDEs is they almost always contain substandard editors. What they lack in text manipulation, they partly make up for with code completion and source code browsing. However, I spend most of my time manipulating text. Don't you? I would rather have Emacs hippie expansion to complete previously typed tokens than code completion. Much faster, and can be used more often. On my last two Java projects, I've had Emacs and Eclipse open side-by-side. I like Eclipse for compiling and fixing errors, the debugger, and for running Junit tests. I like Emacs with JDEE and ECB for editing. 10:55:36 PM    comment []

Wow, almost a month without posting! That's not good. And here it is, almost the anniversary of my blog. In my own defense, I've had alot of things happening all at once lately. I started a new project at work, I had to change up my home network (no computer for Radio) because my wife is working at home, and I have a 4 month old daughter. But I'm back! I now have Radio up and running on the Mac. I moved all my content over, and I am ready to rock and roll. So get ready, cause here I come... Side note: I would run Radio on my laptop at work except I don't have the capacity. It's all I can do to run development tools and a web server! 10:37:02 PM    comment []

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