Here’s a brief example of managing multiple CVS groups, so you can have different groups doing development out of the same CVS repository. (continued…)

Here it is… GOOD NIGHT!

Changelist:

1) MAJOR bug… the song set used by the controls was changed when adding to playlist… controls were modifying the WRONG SONG! Fixed.
2) Modeless Options dialog OK/Cancel should be working now.
3) Annoying scrollbars were hiding small-view controls, fixed.
4) Changed pink background to something less flashy, until skinning is improved.

School (this is corey) writes “:) you know what todo”

“Ah cannoh give ya any more powah, cap’an!” Sorry, Core, I can’t get your IP address from your post. Slash logs an “IPID” of all posters – it’s an MD5 hash of the actual IP. That means that slash respects your privacy, and can’t actually identify you by IP (at least from the slash logs/database entries), but at the same time, it can uniquely identify you and ban traffic from your IP if needed. Good job, slash! 😛

Now get me that IP and the proxy will open up for ya like you was Ali Baba hizself!

Slash, along with my other doodads, requires a pretty powered-up apache build. I like to compile everything in, too, as opposed to using dynamically linked apache modules, for arguably faster performance. I have mod_perl, mod_ssl/openssl, php, and the “mm” library compiled in at this point. Here is my script that does it all in one step. DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, unless you know what you’re doing and you’re willing to poke through the script. It’s a bit out of date at this point, so that would be the first thing to check… I am thinking I would eventually like to “WWW::Mechanize” the script so that it can, e.g., go to the mod_perl website and figure out what the latest version is. Make it TOTALLY automatic, in other words. Anyone besides me have any interest in this? Or has this been done and I’ve just missed it somewhere?

In my opinion, for a developer, choosing an editor is second in importance only to choosing a programming language. It’s worth spending some time exploring and getting past the inevitable learning curve of the better ones to give them a real “spin around the block”.

One thing to note is that many editors are part of an “IDE” (integrated development environment). IDE’s let you integrate tasks like compiling, debugging, version control, etc. into the editor’s environment. IDE’s usually target a specific platform – Windows, Java, etc.

VISUAL STUDIO

I have used the editor built into the Visual Studio IDE (thru 6.0) for years. It uses all the same keystrokes as Windows applications, which made it intuitive for me. It does everything I need, pretty much, except multiple-file-search-and-replace. You can write custom macros in Visual Basic. I’ve written macros to allow me to maintain ASCII logs of everything I do.

The Visual Studio IDE is of great assistance if you’re doing Windows development, but it’s just additional overhead if you’re not. I haven’t used their latest version that much yet (Visual Studio .net). The .net version adds a ton more IDE functionality that, again, can have pros and cons, depending on what you’re doing.

EMACS

I’m currently moving away from VS towards Emacs. IMHO, it’s “the” open-source editor. There are versions for Linux and Windows. The keystrokes are completely different, but not inherently any more difficult. It’s completely customizable with a Lisp macro language. It’s cross-platform, running on just about any system.

The reason I want to move completely to Emacs is that it is open-source and well supported. That means that I will likely be able to use it for the rest of my life. No company will pull it from the shelves or morph it into something else. I can put it on pretty much any OS and it will work the same. This is becoming more and more important to me.

I’m sure Emacs has the ability to integrate in an IDE fashion with tasks like using CVS for version control. I haven’t found much need for that in a Linux development environment, however, as tasks tend to be more distributed (I’ll go back to the command line to recompile, run the code, perform a version control task, etc).

LOTS OF OTHER CHOICES

There are other choices I’ve come across:

There are a million others, commercial and free – try a google search for “editor programmer”…

CONCLUSION

As a final note, the only way to find the absolute best editor for yourself is to play with several – just like programming languages, there are lots of choices, and sometimes one works better than another for a given task. But finding a good base editor early in your career will pay off in spades.