Oct

Old School - A Warning

Tim on October 23rd, 2007

Nostalgia is defined as a longing for the past. Many things give me a feeling of nostalgia: old pictures, 80’s music, Robert Aspirin books. The list goes on. It’s just not my development environment, and it better not be for you either. As developers we should be moving forward with not just with our technologies, but our tools as well. I remember writing Java code using the Programmer’s File Editor and compiling at the command line. No debugger. No forms designer. I used good old System.out.println. Not exactly the most efficient use of my time. Today I wouldn’t think about writing code without a good IDE. With features such as Intellisense, modern IDEs are a godsend. There are plenty of good, free development environments available. Here’s a few: