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Comment on Visual Studio vs. Xcode by Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:19:23 +0000

I never claimed this was an objective comparison. In fact, I said it was my opinion only, based on how I worked.

In fact, the main difference I see here between my post and your comment is that I said I was biased and attached my real identity to my posting. Whereas you attempted to hide your bias — and you definitely have a rather large one — with sweeping generalizations and didn’t leave your name.

Your comment here is one more piece of proof that comments just attract uselessness. Be useful, or don’t bother.

Comment on Visual Studio vs. Xcode by Wayne B

Wayne B — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:15:19 +0000

Biased much? You’re about the only person in the world who would say that Visual Studio’s Intellisense is worse than Xcode’s. Also, the keyboard shortcuts in Xcode (and indeed all of OS X) are horrible compared to what you can do in Visual Studio. For example, to implement an interface on my class, I type the name of the interface and then press “Ctrl + .” and then “Return” and I’m done.

Comment on User accounts removed by Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:33:56 +0000

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Comment on Disabling Intellisense by Turning off intellisense for a project | keyongtech

Turning off intellisense for a project | keyongtech — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:05:08 +0000

[...] Re: Turning off intellisense for a project On Sep 22, 11:10*am, "Hillbilly" wrote: > IntelliSense can also be intrusive and force itself on us wasting time and > effort. I would like a way to easily and rapidly toggle it on and off > myself. Like Ctrl-I for example > > "raylopez99" wrote in message > > news:ac5083ca-2754-4e61-95aa-3a04f4bed30e… > > > > > There is in Visual Basic (you use Attributes), but I don’t know about > > C#. *Probably, if you dig deep enough into the options. > > > But why would you want to turn off IntelliSense? *That’s one of the > > most useful features of a strongly typed language like C# is. > > > RL > > > Clive Dixon wrote: > >> I have a project as part of a solution which contains a very large number > >> of > >> autogenerated class files. When compiling the solution and the > >> autogenerated > >> files have changed, visual studio takes an age to recreate intellisense > >> information for the autogenerated classes. Is there any way whatsoever > >> that > >> I can turn off intellisense generation on a per-project or per-class > >> manner? > >> I had hoped that [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)] would stop > >> the generation of intellisense info for the specified item, but it > >> appears > >> to do nothing of the sort.- Hide quoted text – > > – Show quoted text – you may try to "break" it – see this (if the Whole Tomato thing is an IntelliSense competitor/alternative, then I’ll have to say that I am not affiliated nor I get paid for finding this link for you http://tewha.net/software-developmen…-intellisense/ [...]

Comment on Loving Xcode + iPhone SDK by Sam McDonald

Sam McDonald — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:01:33 +0000

I to have done some iphone development. I actually printed out the ViewControllers guide and read it. Took me a while to understand UINavigationController as well.

Sorry to hear you don’t like the documentation view, I am big fan. I love just typing the first letters of an object, then clicking on it and seeing the docs.

Comment on Save changes? by Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:50:29 +0000

I think we got in this pattern from the days where IO was so much slower than anything else. But now we’re more or less used to this metaphor, and I don’t think it’s going to change any time soon. But it should. If nothing else, any modern OS could automatically save to a temporary folder even if you say you don’t want to save. There’s no excuse for losing data these days.

Comment on Save changes? by Sam McDonald

Sam McDonald — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:25:29 +0000

Nope, doesn’t look like any wonder to me.

What makes me laugh is the fact that web apps are doing a much better job of this. In most everything desktop programming is better, except for this. I think that says something about the “saving” process. Most likely it shouldn’t exist. It should just save for you, and keep unlimited undo history, because…. why not?

Comment on Are you sure? by Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:22:27 +0000

It’s really bad in iTunes. A few months back I reset all the warnings and decided to get screen shots of all the stupid questions it asked me. I gave that up a week later, it was just too much work.

Comment on Are you sure? by Laura-Jane - Whimfield

Laura-Jane - Whimfield — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:01:36 +0000

I know! I don’t use ITunes, but I have experienced that kind of thing elsewhere.

I find I usually just get in the habit of clicking YESYESYES all the time that I don’t even read them anymore.

What’s that called? Habituation or something…

Comment on Two strikes… by Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:17:31 +0000

I know FOSS does it, but this code isn’t really FOSS and serves a different purpose. The purpose of FOSS is generally to build something. The header there protects against the code being used in a way counter to the license.

The purpose this code is only to demonstrate how to use Apple’s frameworks, and to do so while remaining highly readable. The 38 lines of bullshit go against the purpose of the code.

Perhaps it would be enough if Xcode just rolled up the legalese by default, though…