Comments on: XCode 3.0 http://michael-mccracken.net/2006/08/xcode-30/ This is a weblog Sat, 29 May 2010 22:10:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ted Leung on the air http://michael-mccracken.net/2006/08/xcode-30/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Ted Leung on the air Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:17:11 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=59#comment-217 <p><strong>WWDC comments</strong></p> <p>Here are some thoughts on what we've seen at WWDC so far... Ordinarily I wouldn't pay much attention to the tower announcement because, I've been reasonably happy with Apple's laptops since I've been back on OS X. However, RAM and fast disks ...</p> WWDC comments

Here are some thoughts on what we’ve seen at WWDC so far… Ordinarily I wouldn’t pay much attention to the tower announcement because, I’ve been reasonably happy with Apple’s laptops since I’ve been back on OS X. However, RAM and fast disks …

]]> By: Administrator http://michael-mccracken.net/2006/08/xcode-30/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Administrator Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:22:04 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=59#comment-216 <p>IntelliJ sure does sound like a handy IDE. It's such a shame Java has so many good tools and is so little fun to work in (for me).</p> <p>On a related note - doesn't that sound like the kind of thing every single program should have? Not just Undo, but visualizations of Undo and even better, a standard way of displaying and browsing user actions, and allowing named milestones along the way. That's what ought to replace saving...</p> IntelliJ sure does sound like a handy IDE. It’s such a shame Java has so many good tools and is so little fun to work in (for me).

On a related note – doesn’t that sound like the kind of thing every single program should have? Not just Undo, but visualizations of Undo and even better, a standard way of displaying and browsing user actions, and allowing named milestones along the way. That’s what ought to replace saving…

]]> By: Jeremy Higgs http://michael-mccracken.net/2006/08/xcode-30/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Jeremy Higgs Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:11:05 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=59#comment-215 <p>"Project Snapshots" are actually a really, really handy feature. IntelliJ IDEA (awesome Java IDE) has the concept of local history, which goes beyond this, to capture every single change you make, project-wide. If you make a mistake, you can scroll through diffs of the files and revert to a particular revision or a "label" (akin to the snapshot).</p> <p>I think it's really meant to be used when working on a task that isn't quite finished (and so you don't want to commit to svn), so you can revert back to a working state if you mess things up (like... uh... stuffing up build settings).</p> “Project Snapshots” are actually a really, really handy feature. IntelliJ IDEA (awesome Java IDE) has the concept of local history, which goes beyond this, to capture every single change you make, project-wide. If you make a mistake, you can scroll through diffs of the files and revert to a particular revision or a “label” (akin to the snapshot).

I think it’s really meant to be used when working on a task that isn’t quite finished (and so you don’t want to commit to svn), so you can revert back to a working state if you mess things up (like… uh… stuffing up build settings).

]]> By: Frédéric BLANC http://michael-mccracken.net/2006/08/xcode-30/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Frédéric BLANC Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:45:11 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=59#comment-214 <p>Agreed: Xcode (and IB) v3.0 really seems to be like a godsend to me. But <em>please</em> correct your post so that Xcode is correctly spelt :P ! Thanks in advance, Michael.</p> Agreed: Xcode (and IB) v3.0 really seems to be like a godsend to me. But please correct your post so that Xcode is correctly spelt :P ! Thanks in advance, Michael.

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