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February 15th, 2011New Developers …. IDE or Text Editor
October 21st, 2010When you start a new project what do you reach for first? A simple text editor, vi, emacs, notepad? Or do you go for a full blown IDE that helps you speed development, is tightly integrated with your language of choice and has additional tools for rapid development?
Text Editor
What about learning a new language or those programmers just getting started? Your favorite text editor is by far the better option in this case. When learning a new language or development for a new platform a developer should focus on the language at hand. Syntax and file layout conventions are much easier to remember using a text editor that doesn’t auto-complete. Additionally an IDE generally hides a lot of the build process. Knowing how to build a program on the command line from source is invaluable information. What happens when your IDE project becomes corrupted or you inherit a project that is not in “perfect” condition and won’t open in your IDE? If you don’t understand how to build an application outside the IDE, you’re in for a lot of headaches and likely one or more long nights of debugging.
IDE
Like a lot of developers, I opt for the full featured IDE. Once you have your head wrapped around the features of an IDE there is little room to argue a tightly integrated IDE is the fastest way to code. The process that I’ve adopted for picking up a new language is to write a short program using only a text editor and building the program using whatever command line tools are available. Once I’ve got a good handle on how the language works and how to build a program without an IDE I then move to an IDE, assuming one is available.
What are your thoughts? Are you an IDE or Text Editor developer?
Shopping
August 26th, 2010
The little guys ready to go shopping last weekend. 5 minutes later asleep in the stroller.
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2 Days 2 Good Rides
June 16th, 2010The last 2 days I have been pretty successful at squeezing in a little time to get some exercise. Monday I got in lunch ride, HOT HOT. Tuesday night I got out with the Steel City guys again for a short ride (for them). After 2 days of riding my legs feel like pudding… it really is a shame how much cycling fitness I’ve lost.
The good news is business is going good and I’m getting to see the boys a lot! Now if I can just fit all 3 into my schedule life will be perfect.
Toc
May 21st, 2010Thoroughly enjoying the tour of California this year. Today was a very fun day to watch. Oh and thank you versus for not cutting to hockey before the finish.
Back to Basics
May 19th, 2010Since we adopted the boys my riding time has been minimal to say the least.
Minimal = Roughly 1 hr every week.
As of late we’ve started getting into a routine and I’m finding a few extra hours each week to get on the bike. During this time I’ve been focusing on wattage numbers and hr to make sure my time on the bike was spent making gains.
Today I came to the conclusion that I’m still not riding enough to be super fit, so why focus so much on the numbers. I removed the powertap and all computers from the bike, went for a ride at lunch and … it was the best ride I’ve had in a long time. I think for the time being I’ll be riding for the fun of it rather than being training focused as I have in the past.
Life Got Busy
February 18th, 2010I’m sure it’s not new information to my loyal following of 2 readers that my wife and I are adopting. We’ve finally gotten to the stage in the process where we know roughly when we’ll be getting the boys (that is correct I said boys plural we are adopting twins). Along with finding out when we’ll be getting the boys came the preparation phase. I feel like we’ve crammed 9 months of preparation into about 3 weeks of work. IT HAS BEEN BUSY! Between getting ready for the boys, running my business and sleep it’s been tough to find any free time for biking or just general fun.
I can’t wait for the boys to get here so we can get back to a more normal routine!
Career Choice
January 19th, 2010If you are a software developer and you find yourself justifying 6+ levels of abstraction between the data source and the user interface… please turn off the computer, smack yourself in the head with the keyboard and immediately begin your search for a new career path.
Enough of the rain already
January 17th, 2010So we’ve had a little rain this year. It seems for the past few months every weekend has been extremely cold or extremely wet. Ok, so cold by Alabama standards, we had 2 weekends where it did not get into the 40′s. In Alabama that is COLD!
The cold weather is easily addressable. We just pile clothing such that the only thing exposed is your eyes. When you reach the point you can’t bend your arms or legs you’ve got on just enough layers. You can now head out on road looking like the kid from A Christmas Story.
The water however is another problem entirely. I’ve found regardless of how much you suite up the water still manages to soak you, it’s heavy and makes the cold much worse. Now given the amount of rain we have received I started thinking maybe one of these would make the going a little easier. How much fun would surfing down the back of Coosa Mtn be on that!