Following on from my Installing Eclipse post, I put together an empty workspace using my recommendations, as well as a couple from the Ivan Moore and Mike Hill session Programming in the Small.
Unzip the template into your workspaces directory and rename it to whatever you want your new workspace to be called. When you start Eclipse, browse to the new workspace directory and have all your code templates set up already.
Download the Eclipse Workspace Template
Please feel free to make suggestions for further improvement.
I was talking to someone who had had a project manager mention in a retrospective that he felt that the testing was slowing down the delivery. They wanted to stop “wasting time” on testing and refactoring.
When I heard this, I said “That’s a bit like going on a car journey and your passenger telling you to ignore the oil pressure light because they don’t want you wasting time topping up the engine oil”
Admittedly, you will get underway faster, but that’s going to be very little comfort when you come to a grinding halt a few miles down the road.
Earlier today Antony said on Twitter:
“stop apologising if your code starts out messy… it’s how it ends up that counts…. you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs”
I replied:
“Code _should_ start out messy. Finding the right places for things is harder when they’re already neatly in the wrong place”
If you have a preconceived idea of where your code should go, you will put it there by default. Antony told me an experience he had with this when he was untangling dependencies in jnarrate. By moving everything into a single package, then repackaging based on affinity, a much better package structure revealed itself.
At home, I would really like to re-organise my kitchen so that the pans are closer to the cooker. It makes sense from an ergonomics point of view. However, they already have a home. In order to rearrange the pans, I would have to empty the existing cupboard and the destination cupboard. It’s less work for me to put the pans back in their existing space, but it bothers me whenever I think of it. I really should fix that
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