UML really?! sorry for taking this a bit off topic
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with others as a debugging, problem resolution, and research tool. I > especially like how you can create a panel with documentation, debug values, > and much more. I could triage a problem, and then ship it off to a developer > for fixing. I would be sure they could see the problem since all the > necessary data is right there. Using it as a code editor though would > require more work I think. If it has support for ERD, UML, and other such > tools, that would be very compelling as a development tool. > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Johannes Thönes > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes I agreed. It is a very interesting approach. And I would love to >> hear an interview about this. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I stumbled on this video of Code Bubbles in action: >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k >> > >> > and was quite amazed. I'm not sure if its pragmatic to have so little >> > signal-to-noise when actually typing new code, but there's easy >> > solutions around this. Basically, your IDE is an effectively boundless >> > plane and the granularity of editing anything isn't per-file but per- >> > method/class, with the method/classes actual location just metadata, >> > with the IDE sorting it all into the appropriate files internally. >> > Navigating anywhere is primarily via a search-in-everything keyboard >> > box, and code appears in bubbles on this infinite plane. If you do >> > things like "visit declaration", the declaration opens, but in a new >> > bubble, visible together with the original code, instead of what most >> > current IDEs do, which is to open a new 'tab' and replace the view >> > entirely. It would also be an _amazing_ pair programming / code review >> > IDE if only you could all work in one plane, each having their own >> > little section in it, with you able to freely travel to someone else's >> > space. Unfortunately from the video it seems like all you can do is >> > email workspace layouts around, but that too could be addressed, I >> > guess. >> > >> > Later on in the video a debug session is started which really does >> > look amazing (for code editing I'm not entirely convinced yet, but >> > that looks like a fantastic debugger!) >> > >> > I know discussions about "Why are code editors still a glorified dumb >> > terminal" show up from time to time and this is certainly something >> > new. >> > >> > There isn't a download yet; more info is here: >> > http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm >> > >> > I wouldn't mind seeing an interview of Andrew Bragdon about this :) >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "The Java Posse" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Johannes Thönes >> johannes.thoenes[at]googlemail.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Robert Casto > www.IWantFreeShipping.com > Find Amazon Filler Items easily! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
