Eclipse

In an attempt to familiarize myself with the unfamiliar, I decided to build a fun side-project in Ruby and Vim. Effectively learning a new language, framework, and editor. Coming from Nano, Quanta, Eclipse PDT, TextMate, Netbeans; I found (Mac/g)Vim is big a step, and first two weeks you should not expect to be productive.

Writing code requires two important things: _creativity_ & _discipline_. The **creativity** to create the unknown, unexplored, exciting parts of software. And the **discipline** to create the dull & all-too-well-known parts of software / documentation.

One error that has bugged my Eclipse PDT for a long time, was \_org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EcoreEMap $DelegateEObjectContainmentEList. \_A vague error, not much to go on, not many hits on google either. Turned out it had to do with the version of my Java Runtime Environment I was using.

Hi folks. As you may or may not know, I have a [love/hate relationship with my IDE: Eclipse PDT](/blog/2008/04/11/my-new-ide-eclipse-pdt/). For times and times we get along well. But once every while it gets messed up, and it's a pain to straighten it out again. Or at least, it was.

I've been programming a lot with Quanta which is a lightweight kdevelop based IDE. It did the trick for quite some time, but recent developments in my coding life like SVN brought me on a Quest for my new ultimate PHP IDE.