Using Eclipse is Fun !

My current project is about building an embedded software using C++ on a ARM board. Due to some reasons we had to use use Eclipse as we are to use a proprietary tool chain plug-in of the editor. Anyhow, eclipse was too slow to proceed development work fast where deadline is always yelling at the ear and release are very frequent. I started use geany, my favorite editor, for writing codes and just used Eclipse to build the project.

Tonight, I got some relax time(you know 36 degree centigrade is cooler than 40 degree centigrade ! ) and played with eclipse settings. I just stopped the indexer and some other auto completion options — the result was out of expectation ! Eclipse became fast enough to code on Besides, for source code I like courier font, so I did not miss to change that too.

Now, if you are interested, go to Window->Preferences->C/C++ and set off the content assistant and indexer. Bingo… now you have a faster Eclipse.

NetBean, even more fun

I am not going to raise another holly war between netbeans and the eclipese IDE. But, even though eclipse ide worked great after little tweaking, i think everything work better after they are tweaked, I love netbeans for its simple and fast interface. I know, many of you already frowned as called netbeans fast ! Yes indedd. At least for C/C++ development. Netbeans appeared simply lightening fast. It easily replaced geany as my favorite IDE.

It is true, eclipse user base is very rich and so is its plug-in base. Almost all the necessary tools along with huge unnecessary ones (for a particular development view) can be found with eclipse. Especially the subversion plug-in… it is simply splendid). No worries.. I will download the svn module for netbeans. Hope it will not dishearten me

Lastly, I also admit, netbeans is very slow for java development. Last time I was developing a non-day-job project using jsp/struts. I choose netbeans and found that it takes all the memory of my computer. Again after tweaking for memory, it came up with much faster speed, even though an honest comment will be . SLOW.

But, if for C++ development, its simply great. Additionally, you can easily create UML design graphically by drag and drop; and then use it in your project ! One interesting feature of the UML module is that, here some of the design pattern templates are built in i.e. just select a pattern, give custom name click ok… you got the classes.

Finally, I am very happy with the new netbean.. I simply love it.

Use versioning… an easy solution — TortoiseCVS.

Perhaps, most of us have been fallen under situation when we wished if we could get a earlier version of our work!Hence rises the importance of versioning and using some versioning tools like SourceSafe, Source Off Site and of course the CVS.

Most probably, CVS is the most widely used version controlling tool. Though undoubtedly, it has some very good features, but unfortunately as well, it is a command line tool; furthermore it is mainly for Unix/Linux. For this, we face little bit problems using this excellent tool.

Now, TortoiseCVS is an CVS front end built for Windows® platform and the installer also installs CVSNT, a cvs tool for Windows®.

It is the easiest CVS tool I have ever used. You can right click on a folder or a document and add it to CVS. You can commit, update, view history, view change graph, diff and get any version by simply right click.

Here are some screenshots: