Episode 4: The March of IDEs

In this episode, we start with our conclusion and try to move on from there.

In This Episode:

• What if we couldn’t use IDEs?
• Confessions
• What is an IDE anyway?
• Glade!
• The value is in the integration?
• IDE as antidote to problematic language choices.
• Metatool!
• The Bulldozer and the Treehouse
• Managing Java without an IDE
• How poor memory leads to simplicity
• Design patterns for the memory impaired
• PHP and the Abstraction Loving Programmer
• Football helmets and the damage they hide
• Implicitly magical
• Mutability causes debuggers or air planes or something
• IDEs can remember it for you
• IDE interface remains the same when the languages change
• Unix and Windows, reflections of their Eras in Tooling
• Wait for the tool maker, or be the tool maker?
• Weblogic Workbench: hooray!
• Rails: hooray!
• Did IDEs solve the problems of software complexity?
• Solve complexity by simplifying, not managing.
• Brazil!
• Managing CSS
• The Importance of Re-thinking Earnestly
• Creativity and Limitations
• What can I do with blue?