Comments on Tapestry Central: Caught between Two IDEs

I have used IntelliJ just because of groovy plugin...

2009-07-07T08:28:13.382-07:00

I have used IntelliJ just because of groovy plugin. I have not tasted Clojure, but I like using groovy with Tapestry and the Eclipse plugin for groovy just fails a lot. Some times it compiles Java and Groovy with no problem, some times Java dose not recognize groovy classes nether groovy recognize Java classes.

Now I am back with Eclipse and just abandon groovy. Hope that the groovy plugin get's better over the time.

Yes, something got in there and corrupted a few fi...

2009-07-06T16:51:00.932-07:00

Yes, something got in there and corrupted a few files of my old project pages. I need to regenerate them and it keeps shifting down the priority stack.

Off topic -- did you know that Opera reports a fra...

2009-07-06T16:37:11.499-07:00

Off topic -- did you know that Opera reports a fraud warning when trying to browse to http://howardlewisship.com/ ?

The general performance of IDEA on 64-bit Linux ha...

2009-07-06T01:00:37.654-07:00

The general performance of IDEA on 64-bit Linux has really improved for me after installing an Intel X25-M SSD. The annoying lockups are almost entirely gone! I can definitely recommend an SSD to anyone struggling with IDE performance.

Well, I'm pretty proud of the namespace browser, i...

2009-07-03T09:04:54.819-07:00

Well, I'm pretty proud of the namespace browser, indeed :-)

What I'm willing to do next on it (though I'll have to finish a first version of the formatter / auto indenter before), is something that could allow users to customize the namespace browser by scripting.

If I can publish a sufficiently simple model , then maybe the new version of the namespace browser could be the best script done by one of the users !

:-)

Laurent, Actually I think your namespace browser ...

2009-07-03T08:57:31.744-07:00

Laurent,

Actually I think your namespace browser idea is really solid! The whole posting was speaking from frustration and didn't go into enough detail about good things like your plugin.

Hi Howard, thanks for the kind words on the Eclip...

2009-07-02T23:52:44.447-07:00

Hi Howard,

thanks for the kind words on the Eclipse clojure plugin. It's not so frequent to hear good feedback like this, and it surely helps motivate ourselves when working on it on spare time ! :-)

Regards,

--
Laurent

Another aspect for me is how awkward it is for me ...

2009-07-02T17:45:36.756-07:00

Another aspect for me is how awkward it is for me to write code in a group when I'm used to IDEA and I have Eclipse in front of me. Using it full time again to develop will help with that. Now if there was just some magic for the Ubuntu vs. Mac OS X key bindings!

I was kind of disappointed with the last version o...

2009-07-02T17:30:55.369-07:00

I was kind of disappointed with the last version of Idea. Large source trees were a bit of a nightmare and the IDE would freeze up a bit too frequently.

The new MAIA EAP however is definitely an improvement performance wise. The editor feels snappy, indexing happens in the background and most things just seem to happen more quickly. I'm just disappointed these performance improvements weren't part of Idea 8 especially after they made a big deal of the improvements in the indexing.

The clojure plugin is very early days still. I expect it will improve greatly in future releases.

My personal opinion is IntelliJ IDEA above all -- ...

2009-07-02T14:56:35.470-07:00

My personal opinion is IntelliJ IDEA above all -- on Windows at least, though I don't care for it on my Mac (which is unfortunately stuck on Java 5 forever (its a quad PowerMac G5)).

Next in line I would go with NetBeans. It seems to be the most consistently stable across platforms and is really quite nice to work with.

I use both Eclipse and IBM RSA at work (depending on project), and I personally don't like Eclipse. It usually works just fine, but I find myself a lot less efficient in it (though I am admittedly more used to NetBeans than anything).

Just my 2c

I've grown fond of the "perspective" paradigm in E...

2009-07-02T13:50:46.400-07:00

I've grown fond of the "perspective" paradigm in Eclipse. With two 24" widescreens full of various views, it's great to be able to switch between Java, Debug, Team synchronization, Python, SQL Development and have both screens immediately display everything you're interested in.

I would strongly recommend Mylyn's Jira integration too, you don't have to switch over to a web browser but can have your bug tracker right there in your IDE.