Print like you mean it

September 23rd, 2008

When digging through code, I find it’s good to print it out, wander off away from the machine, and do some reading.
But if you print any reasonable-sized chunk of code from Eclipse, you’ll be carrying around several reams of paper, since Eclipse apparently thinks we’re all blind illiterates.
For the past decade, my friend & mentor [...]

F3 is a beautiful thing

September 12th, 2008

Code comprehension.  It’s important when you jump into someone else’s code.
Eclipse makes it easy, with F3, command-T, and shift-command-G.
Very quickly, you can jump through a maze of classes and interfaces, diving into details or seeing the higher hierarchy.  I forgot how nice Eclipse can be.  Particularly if you’ve got the viPlugin.
72 open files (and bless [...]