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I fully relate, I wish I had the same background, it would have made me probably a better developer, but I'm already hooked... What I'm wondering is, why can't we have the browser then be our IDE, chrome already supports editing, just need to persist it to my code base By the way, I strongly suggest using something like resharper, VS is great, but I found eclipse much better if you are looking for those tricks and shortcuts. If you haven't tried it yet, I encourage anyone to get eclipse, put in some java code, and play with ctrl+1 magic shortcut (mark anything in code and let it do the work for you) it allows you to be more expressive and write code in a modular way, for example, I don't have to be a boolean logic master, or even a smart developer to extract negation up a boolean condition, and if I forgot a param / method, it will create it for me with the right signature, and if I see a piece of string I want to replace with a variable, it takes it for me and adds those dreadful " + ... + " in so I don't have to. does it makes you a zombie programmer? probably yes, does it make you smarter? probably not, but does it make you more productive? absolutely yes. again, VS I think is nowhere near eclipse JDT in that end (without resharper at least) I think this is why GWT, Dart, Scala, Hibernate / Seam, Spring all invest so much in eclipse, most developers of this world (me included) are just not good enough hackers to do it the VIM / grep way... sad but true. |