I have been learning to use Emacs for a little while now. So far liking it a lot. My problem is that for little C codes I prefer using Rake instead of Make. However flymake does not seem to want anything else than Make. As it complains that it can not find Makefile. From the command line Rake is used in the same way as Make so I was won...
Hi I am using Eclipse IDE with few plug-ins for PHP dev. I am using PHPEclipse plug-in and I know there are lotsa other plugins like EasyEclipse.But is there an IDE like Visual Studio with cool drag and drop stuff for PHP? ...
Explanation: Say package A is always built first and then package B. I need to configure my eclipse workspace such that it mimics the build environment and shows compilation errors when sources in package A refer package B. Is this possible? If yes, how? ...
Can anyone recommend a GUI builder tool for creating DHTML web apps using AJAX to communicate with a web service backend? I'd like to avoid having to mess around with designing HTML, marshalling/unmarshalling data, checking for browser compatibility, etc. The tool should have a library of widgets that can be put into an application and h...
Short of copying the entire .netbeans directory is there any way to transfer custom Netbeans color schemes to other computers? I am using the latest (6.5). ...
I am not an experimented user of SCM tools, even though I am convinced of their usefulness, of course. I used some obscure commercial tool in a former job, Perforce in the current one, and played a bit with TortoiseSVN for my little personal projects, but I disliked having lot of .svn folders all over the place, making searches, backups ...
I used to work in Delphi 6, and got very used to having CodeRush's various helpful IDE additions. Many are now in the IDE itself, or I've managed to replace with something else, but the one feature I REGULARLY find myself wishing I had in Delphi 2007 still, is the ability CodeRush had that added little "connecting lines" between compone...
What editor/IDE do you use for C++ programming on linux and Why? SEE http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24109/c-ide-for-linux ...
This San Mateo development company makes a freely downloadable convenient packaging of many plugins for Eclipse called Aptana. I was recently in an environment where Aptana came pre-installed. Not only is it a good IDE for RoR, it also does a somewhat decent job (sans debugging) for PHP, Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. According to th...
I am writing an academic paper and I need to refer to a feature that exists in most IDEs for OO languages, where you type an objects name in the source code, add the dot, and something pops up and lets you pick members. I am looking for a general (not IDE specific term, though I am also interested in knowing those), and that refers spec...
2008 has passed and there are new free software or updates for text editors that can take the place of Ultraedit-32, which is arguably the killer app of commercial text editors. We all have searched for that perfect editor, tested them, compared them, and eventually stuck with the one we love the most. Ultraedit-32 features that are po...
I have a visual studio solution that comprises of several projects and are separated into different directories. In my c# or vb.net code I want to determine the base directory (or the directory that the solution is in). A dirty solution would be to call the directory parent.parent.parent until I find a file *.sln but I also have seve...
I've been a Microsoft developer since VB 3, and always considered Microsoft development tools to be the best on the market. However, having used Eclipse for Java development over the last few months, I can see a lot of features that are missing in VS 2008 IDE. Yet I can't find any that I can't find alternatives for in Eclipse. Seems that...
What is the most popular web development IDE? What is the most popular web development language? Is there any way of getting absolute figures on these issues (percentage-wise)? After reading scheibk's answer I want to refine the question to "which enterprise level language/framework is most popular" (And the question about percentage f...
I am not talking about the highlight colors but the actual colors. I got a color scheme with light background color but the braces/parentheses are barely visible. Anyone knows how to change this? Btw this is for C# because C++ seems to color braces/parentheses using operator color. ...
I like all three of the popular Java IDE's and all three have plug-ins for Scala. I'll probably try all three eventually, but since I'm totally new to the language I figured I'd ask which is the most full featured Scala IDE? Update: Here is the same question for Scala 2.8 ...
Anyone knows if this is possible? I tried it in vs 2005 and 2008 and it doesn't do that. IMO this would be a very useful feature when I know I want to select the last item or an item that's closer to the end of the IntelliSense list. ...
We already have things like static analysis that tells us what's wrong with our code and where, so should we be endowing our IDEs with more AI features and, if so, which ones? I'm looking for ideas! ...
There is a bunch of announcements from CES 2009 about new 3D displays used for games and movies. I was wondering if there is a setup that currently exist that also brings the 3D to a development environment. Such an environment would, for example, bring out compile errors to the front. Or maybe allow the programmer to quickly stack panel...
I've been a software developer for over twenty years, programming in C, Perl, SQL, Java, PHP, JavaScript, and recently Python. I've never had a problem I could not debug using some careful thought, and well-placed debugging print statements. I respect that many people say that my techniques are primitive, and using a real debugger in ...