12 Apr
2011
12 Apr
'11
9:04 a.m.
On 12 Apr 2011 at 8:43, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I earned my programming stripes in the old corporate world. Write up
a proposal; get approval to proceed (often entailed a lot of
lobbying); write up a design document; submit it for review; defend
your design; write up an implementation document; divide the work,
submit a test plan, code the tests, code the project code, submit
both for code review...
In fact, coding was a very small part of a new design. Politics was
far more important and I'm aware of no development packages that can
handle that aspect.
That approach colors the way I work today. I don't program much
GUI, so IDEs that help with that don't really help me much. I
suspect that an IDE might be of some use if I did.
--Chuck
With this
being said, I *love* the new IDEs. There are some
features that I find are incredibly useful and reduce the number of
errors in my code AS I'M CREATING IT -- instead of during compile
time or later.
I find that really slows me down. I like that Eclipse, for example,
offers this, but I'd rather only have it do it when I ask it to, not
when I'm just typing along.