codemash - neal ford
January 19, 2007
I’m here listening to ThoughtWorks’ Neal Ford, who gave the keynote yesterday. He’s talking about being a productive programmer, and has already given me some interesting things to think about. One, ‘monad’ (powershell) is a new shell for Windows Vista and XP. I may look at installing that, as it looks to add more unix-like power to Windows.
Another cool tidbit is ‘pushd’ and ‘popd’. This will allow you to push and pop directories on to a stack. You can switch to a new directory with pushd, then popd to pop it off and you’ll get taken back to where you were before. This works in windows and linux - I guess in OSX too.
He’s suggesting ruby or groovy as scripting languages of choice for windows.
He’s also suggesting that NTFS junctions are a substitute for symlinks. Not sure if this is a utility (seems to be) or built in. The site to get it from is sysinternals.com (just purchased by MS).
ROOTED VIEW in Windows - sounds interesting.
EXAMPLE: c:\windows\explorer.exe /e,/root,c:\work\cit
The ‘key promoter‘ is an intellij plugin that will announce every time you do something that has a keyboard shortcut but that you didn’t use. Resharpr was also promoted for .NET developers.
IntelliJ ‘live templates’ look to be quite awesome. TextMate for Mac has this, along with Visual Studio too.
clcl is a multiple clipboard utility for Windows - iclip for mac was recommended as well.
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