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	<title>Comments on: Hammering Screws: Programmers and Tool Blindness</title>
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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://www.ericdelabar.com/2008/06/hammering-screws.html#comment-1466</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thing i use in eclipse every day:
-Auto-Build &#38; run our webserver &#38; build-path management [although build-paths are a tedious chore]

-ctrl-click on a varible or type to see the code automatically and not have to go through tons of directory hunting for it.  This is a huge timesaver.

-ctrl-shift-t / ctrl-shift-r are similar to the ctrl-click

-Auto-complete/Inline-documentation can be an enormous timesaver and you don't find it in non-ide type editors like textmate.

-Inline error &#38; warning higlighter &#38; problem's browser.  If I make a mistake, it's highlighted right away. It of course doesn't catch all problems, but it catches a lot of the small goofups that can really consume time when you forgot that semi-colon or something similar and have to go through another save-build-run-wait-wait-wait-error to have the problem blow up in your face.
-A full featured debugger.
-Litter your code with TODO comments and you have an automatic todo list! 
- The code outline can be useful at times (although textmate has this one)
- The easy to use multi-directory/file diffing tools
- The built in scm management tools
--Occasionally, I also use the save history tools built in for more granular reverting.
- And the basic features you mentioned.

There are several features that I would use in eclipse, but don't work with our particular software setup (we use the obscure resin server w/ struts 1.1 vs. tomcat w/ spring for example, which remove a bunch of eclipse feature ), or there are better tools to deal with the specific part, like cssedit2 for css editing.

We don't use the profiler since we don't really have speed problems with our web apps.

The only really bad thing about eclipse is it's heavyweight nature.  If eclipse wasn't memory and processor intensive and was developed with a better gui, would you really care about using eclipse? No!  It would completely pure awesome.  Are there new features you can use to improve it? Of course!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thing i use in eclipse every day:<br />
-Auto-Build <span class="amp">&amp;</span> run our webserver <span class="amp">&amp;</span> build-path management [although build-paths are a tedious chore]</p>
<p>-ctrl-click on a varible or type to see the code automatically and not have to go through tons of directory hunting for it.  This is a huge timesaver.</p>
<p>-ctrl-shift-t / ctrl-shift-r are similar to the ctrl-click</p>
<p>-Auto-complete/Inline-documentation can be an enormous timesaver and you don&#8217;t find it in non-ide type editors like textmate.</p>
<p>-Inline error <span class="amp">&amp;</span> warning higlighter <span class="amp">&amp;</span> problem&#8217;s browser.  If I make a mistake, it&#8217;s highlighted right away. It of course doesn&#8217;t catch all problems, but it catches a lot of the small goofups that can really consume time when you forgot that semi-colon or something similar and have to go through another save-build-run-wait-wait-wait-error to have the problem blow up in your face.<br />
-A full featured debugger.<br />
-Litter your code with <span class="caps">TODO</span> comments and you have an automatic todo list!<br />
- The code outline can be useful at times (although textmate has this one)<br />
- The easy to use multi-directory/file diffing tools<br />
- The built in scm management tools&thinsp;&#8212;&thinsp;Occasionally, I also use the save history tools built in for more granular reverting.<br />
- And the basic features you mentioned.</p>
<p>There are several features that I would use in eclipse, but don&#8217;t work with our particular software setup (we use the obscure resin server w/ struts 1.1 vs. tomcat w/ spring for example, which remove a bunch of eclipse feature ), or there are better tools to deal with the specific part, like cssedit2 for css editing.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t use the profiler since we don&#8217;t really have speed problems with our web apps.</p>
<p>The only really bad thing about eclipse is it&#8217;s heavyweight nature.  If eclipse wasn&#8217;t memory and processor intensive and was developed with a better gui, would you really care about using eclipse? No!  It would completely pure awesome.  Are there new features you can use to improve it? Of&nbsp;course!</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Bastard</title>
		<link>http://www.ericdelabar.com/2008/06/hammering-screws.html#comment-1294</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Bastard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eclipse takes up a monster amount of memory. I've fallen back to using Dreamweaver just because its relatively lightweight and has intellisense for the DOM.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eclipse takes up a monster amount of memory. I&#8217;ve fallen back to using Dreamweaver just because its relatively lightweight and has intellisense for the&nbsp;<span class="caps">DOM</span>.</p>
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		<title>By: Roosevelt</title>
		<link>http://www.ericdelabar.com/2008/06/hammering-screws.html#comment-1286</link>
		<dc:creator>Roosevelt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I've always used the claw hammer VS pneumatic nailer analogy instead, but the point is still there. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always used the claw hammer <span class="caps">VS</span> pneumatic nailer analogy instead, but the point is still there.&nbsp;:)</p>
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