Just Enough Software Quality

This blog brings together the ideals of Test Driven Development and other Software Quality practices with the reality of smalltime commercial software development. I am trying to apply Just Enough of Waterfall, Agile, Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development (TDD) etc to benefit from their returns, while avoiding the significant costs of following them to the letter. I am working on web applications with Adobe Flex and Ruby on Rails.

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Software developer with a background in multimedia, video, Delphi and C#. Now working with Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex (the future of Web apps IMHO)

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

SlickEdit - Mouse Free Development

I use SlickEdit whenever I can for all hardcore editing tasks, including C#, NAnt and batch files. I still go to Visual Studio for debugging and Forms design.
SlickEdit is not a good choice if you're trying to save cash, but for someone like me that codes all day, its simply the best IMHO.

I don't use its ability to load VS projects. I create my own SlickEdit workspaces and projects, and in the Project tools I call a actions.bat file with arguments such as /build and /run.
"actions /build" calls NAnt with the task.
Then I have key shortcuts to launch builds. SlickEdit provides Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down arrow to skip between error locations as reported by most compilers.
I do most development using a modified NUnit runner, and runtime progress is reported in a XML file that appears in Slickedit after a run.

All up, I can edit, compile, fix errors and run without leaving slickedit or touching the mouse.

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