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So what is your preferred dev tool of choice? And what is your one amazing tip about said tool?
I spent the last day or so trying to get emacs to be all ninja with Objective-C and Xcode, but I've thrown in the towel (for now) and am actually learning how to use Xcode properly.
I only bothered to learn how to customise the code templates today. Some handy little things to know:
- In scope editing mode. Select the thing you want to change in the whole scope. Hit CTRL + CMD + T and then edit the text to change all occurrences in that scope.
- The Open Quickly command is indispensible: Shift + CMD + D
Your Preferred Development Tool of Choice + throw in a hint and tip
#2
Posted 10 February 2010 - 06:11 PM
At uni it would have been emacs, these days it's MS Visual Studio & C++. A tip, get Visual Assist it makes VS a nice environment to work with.
#3
Posted 10 February 2010 - 08:04 PM
Visual Studio seconded. The debugger makes it more than worth the price tag. e.g. Nothing at all :)
#5
Posted 11 February 2010 - 08:09 PM
Visual Studio fourted.
It's excellent, and it's AMAZE for debugging as well.
A tip would be the option Track Active Item in menu Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions –Track Active Item in Solution Explorer
It does what it says on the tin: say, when you get to a file, it automagically selects the file in the Solution Explorer which is almost always what I want :D
It's excellent, and it's AMAZE for debugging as well.
A tip would be the option Track Active Item in menu Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions –Track Active Item in Solution Explorer
It does what it says on the tin: say, when you get to a file, it automagically selects the file in the Solution Explorer which is almost always what I want :D
#6
Posted 11 February 2010 - 08:25 PM
Another VS fan. Just need to download the class explorer plugin to help navigation.
Eclipse is also pretty sweet for java/actionscript.
Eclipse is also pretty sweet for java/actionscript.
#7
Posted 11 February 2010 - 08:31 PM
In Eclipse I've been enjoying the task centred Mylyn add-on. Great when you need to switch between tasks or when you're working with a sprawling source code tree. Hides the noise, highlights the stuff you're working on. Great idea.
#10
Posted 11 February 2010 - 10:46 PM
fragglerock, on Feb 11 2010, 08:34 PM, said:
VS with http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ is pretty nice.
Our c# guys couldn't live without it.
#11
Posted 12 February 2010 - 01:04 AM
fragglerock, on Feb 11 2010, 08:34 PM, said:
VS with http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ is pretty nice.
:mellow:
#12
Posted 12 February 2010 - 10:02 AM
I use Visual Studio 2008, Resharper, Notepad++, DirectX SDK, Windows SDK, Lua, Python, Blender, Google Sketchup, TortoiseHG (Mercurial), SQL Server 2008.
The only tip I can offer is, if you're dealing with crappily formatted C or C++ in Visual Studio, lightlight the text and to Ctrl-K Ctrl-F to pretty it.
The only tip I can offer is, if you're dealing with crappily formatted C or C++ in Visual Studio, lightlight the text and to Ctrl-K Ctrl-F to pretty it.
#13
Posted 17 February 2010 - 03:06 AM
Visual studio.
and when it comes to making games, I've become quite fond of Unity, which I guess is more of an engine rather than a tool.
lua or python can be nice to use for automating some tasks in the pipeline, so sometimes I use that to quicklt develop tools.
and when it comes to making games, I've become quite fond of Unity, which I guess is more of an engine rather than a tool.
lua or python can be nice to use for automating some tasks in the pipeline, so sometimes I use that to quicklt develop tools.
#15
Posted 04 March 2010 - 03:27 PM
Colonel Panic, on Feb 17 2010, 12:26 PM, said:
You don't use Lua or Python for scripting games?
Yeah, it can be used for that as well of course. We're using lua in a work project to script levels.
#16
Posted 12 March 2010 - 05:26 PM
fragglerock, on Feb 11 2010, 08:34 PM, said:
VS with http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ is pretty nice.
Resharper is AMAZING! Hate using VS without it now.
#17
Posted 13 March 2010 - 04:00 AM
All this talk of ReSharper has got me looking at the pricing- £39 for a perpetual student licence? I might have to get that.
#18
Posted 13 March 2010 - 10:53 AM
Just download a trial version and give it a go.
Make sure you learn the keyboard shortcuts and you'll wonder how you coded without it after a month :blah:
Make sure you learn the keyboard shortcuts and you'll wonder how you coded without it after a month :blah:
#19
Posted 16 March 2010 - 10:09 PM
I use VS at work - and yeah it's pretty good, especially the debugger.
At home I work solely using xCode - and my word, I've been impressed with it. I've been using it for well over 2 years now - and the SVN/CVS integration is fantastic, automation of class generation, auto-complete features, auto generation of UML diagrams for visualisation of code, blah blah the list goes on.
I'm never buying a computer that's not a Mac again. I love xCode. I'm totally sold on it.
At home I work solely using xCode - and my word, I've been impressed with it. I've been using it for well over 2 years now - and the SVN/CVS integration is fantastic, automation of class generation, auto-complete features, auto generation of UML diagrams for visualisation of code, blah blah the list goes on.
I'm never buying a computer that's not a Mac again. I love xCode. I'm totally sold on it.
#20
Posted 18 March 2010 - 12:39 PM
Yeah we've started doing some iPhone development at work and xCode looks fantastic, I'm itching to give it a go.
