Tuesday, June 22, 2004

A Change of Environment

Just wanted to share with you how my new work environment is different from my previous work enviroment and all the things I have to get used to.

In Tokuii if you had a hardware or software problem all you had to do was to call an extension and chances are that the System Administrator would attend to you immediately. This morning the person sitting directly in front of me had a problem with his Windows PC. The support person only came in half an hour before it was time to leave. Corporations lose efficiency as they grow larger and bloated.

The system I am working on is huge. Because the system needs to grab data from so many other systems it was impossible to set up the application (i.e. the system I am coding) on my own PC. Thus we all share the same test server running the same application server and we all look at the same log file for debugging. With probably about twenty people coding and testing the application at any time... sifting through the log file has become my number one most hated tedious job. Back in the old days, any one of us could set up the application on their own PCs.

I'm now using Windows XP and the test server runs on HP-UX (which IMHO is the worst *nix there available). I miss working with Linux. I've been rather smitten with Linux. It's extremely developer friendly. I miss grep, vim and find so much that I installed them on my Windows machine too (vim, various Unix utilities for Windows).

At my new job I had the liberty to try choose my preferred IDE. I tried Netbeans, JCreator and Eclipse. While Eclipse is not terribly suited to coding JSPs... I still find it to be the best Java IDE ever. Odd it is then that I do not actually utilise Eclipse fully. For example, I've completely stopped using code assist. This is thanks in no small part to my training of using only vim as an editor in Tokuii.

By the way... notice how hazy it has been these couple of days? Damn Indonesian forest fires.

posted by wyejon at Tuesday, June 22, 2004 (permalink) |

1 wise words from our readers:

a golden opinion from Blogger David

All hail vim! All hail vim!

Damn, I'm a vi convert. I'm close to ignoring notepad on my windows now.

But somehow, I miss IDE, where u get to look at things in a more visual environment, rather than all text.

1:46 PM  

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