Bech on Enterprise Java
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Being an innocent victim of software development communism
I like Analogies from the construction industry.
A carpenter comes to the house you are building. You welcome him, but ask him to leave his tools in the car; all carpenters and craftsmen working on your house have to use the exact same tools! You hand him, not crappy tools, but different ones than he's used to. Now watch this guy fumble, stumble and ask around.
I started writing, and I am probably going to finish a lengthy post about Eclipse annoyances, and how much I love IntelliJ. After being "force fed" Eclipse for the last 3 weeks, I've got some fuel for the fire so to speak. But, that's another story.
What I was thinking the other day, was how crippled I get when someone take away the tools I'm used to and give me new ones. Standardisation may be a good thing, but I say stop when it comes to my personal tools.
Continuous build systems (including reporting tools). CMS (Code management systems like CVS, Subversion etc), Test frameworks etc of course needs to be common for a development team.
However, IMO Developer's choice of container for development and IDE must be a personal choice. It's like dictating what kind of deodorant people should put on in the morning!
Disclaimer; this is my personal view, and not one of my employer. I respect the decisions taken by my current customer to standardize, even if disagree. ¶ 12:47 AM 3 comments
A carpenter comes to the house you are building. You welcome him, but ask him to leave his tools in the car; all carpenters and craftsmen working on your house have to use the exact same tools! You hand him, not crappy tools, but different ones than he's used to. Now watch this guy fumble, stumble and ask around.
I started writing, and I am probably going to finish a lengthy post about Eclipse annoyances, and how much I love IntelliJ. After being "force fed" Eclipse for the last 3 weeks, I've got some fuel for the fire so to speak. But, that's another story.
What I was thinking the other day, was how crippled I get when someone take away the tools I'm used to and give me new ones. Standardisation may be a good thing, but I say stop when it comes to my personal tools.
Continuous build systems (including reporting tools). CMS (Code management systems like CVS, Subversion etc), Test frameworks etc of course needs to be common for a development team.
However, IMO Developer's choice of container for development and IDE must be a personal choice. It's like dictating what kind of deodorant people should put on in the morning!
Disclaimer; this is my personal view, and not one of my employer. I respect the decisions taken by my current customer to standardize, even if disagree. ¶ 12:47 AM 3 comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Poke 53281,0
I recently heard the "Last ninja 2" soundtrack in a breakfast show on a Norwegian radio show. One thing lead to the other, And before I knew anyting of it I had a c64 emulator installed. To my great amusement, my fingers just automaticly typed in the command poke 53281,0 and poke 53280,0.....
Honour and respect to those who can reply with the result of theese commands on a C64 system .)
... And If this blog entry doesn't make any sense at all to you you're just not old enough :-) ¶ 2:10 PM 7 comments
Honour and respect to those who can reply with the result of theese commands on a C64 system .)
... And If this blog entry doesn't make any sense at all to you you're just not old enough :-) ¶ 2:10 PM 7 comments
