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Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Sai Tat Lam — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:07:14 -0000

Whoa you have never come across with code sense and syntax highlighting in xcode 4 suddenly disappeared and no way of resurrecting them? Either you are the one build success type dev or you haven't really coded in xcode. To be honest I would have not needed to look for an alternative if xcode 4 did NOT have such ridiculous bugs that no other IDEs (or even the crappy gedit) will fail at.

Re: MacMall : Winner of the Worst Customer Service on the Planet Award

REDS1111 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:10:58 -0000

I have been on the phone with Apple to fix an Ipod issue for a total of three hours, while they charged my credit card to fix the issue. They finally sent me to "Sr. Tech Support." As of this posting, I have no resolution and I PAID FOR THE STINKING FIX! I'll never buy Apple again! The service is inept, rude and lacks knowledge of their own product.

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Bumpkin Bunny — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:36:37 -0000

After the 30 days trial period I've just bought Jetbrains Appcode. It's not free but it worths every penny. Seriously, XCode4 is a only a big (and very bad) joke beside AppCode! Just spend some time using this software and you will find it out.

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Rafael — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:41:08 -0000

Oh my God, I just cannot believe I'm reading this. Go read some good book kid, start with "Clean Coder" book, you will learn that refactor is part of any good professional programmer.

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Franklin Dattein — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:28:10 -0000

I have seem dozen of developers with the same question/argument along the years and there are clearly three developer profiles, which would agree with this article:

1. Good programmers that are so used to the first IDE that has been introduced to them, that they have no idea on how productive they can be with the right tools. This guy has spent the first of his carrer developing C on a text editor and is usually the same guy that loves re-inventing the wheel instead of learning a open source framework.

2. The change agnostic. This guy is proficient in a not-so-bad-tool like XCode or Visual Studio and is simply too lazy to make changes and spend time required to get used to a new tool and become productivity with it. He has tried to switch tools sometimes, usually for less than 30 minutes and gave up because he couldn't do basic stuff.

3.The poor programmer. This guys has only one bullet for a problem, doesn't diversify, thus doesn't have the need a tool that integrates well with other tools. He has never read a single refactoring book, refactoring for him is just another buzzword that he will eventually be forced to learn.

People who are happy with XCode and Visual Studio are usually a good fit for one of these categories. For these people I say, open you mind, there is much more out there.ps. For the guy who said that a "Java based tool is a drawback". Memory is cheap, your time is not.

Re: Marco’s Love of Android

Rob Bazinet — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:55:31 -0000

Hey Matt,

Thank you for visiting here. :-)

Since you looked back at your purchases in the two years since you started using Android, I had to look back at my purchases as well. I decided to look back just to 1/1/2011 and I was a bit surprised, it was over $360.

I don't think I am the typical user, I know a lot of people who purchase way more than I do. You might be onto something though, Apple makes it stupid simple to spend money with them. I visit the store or a link to an app in the store and with one click, I own it. It downloads to my phone or syncs to it later.

I think if a developer has limited resources, like me, and needs to choose the best place to spend their time to create applications for which there will be a healthy monetary return..iOS is king and will be for the foreseeable future. To me, Google seems to create things that are just "OK", not great and they give it away to the masses, they also take it away just as quickly.

If Android is going to be a place for developers to earn a decent living then it has to be easy to sell and distribute applications. I don't see Google ever pulling it off, I don't think they are savvy enough. Amazon on the other hand holds the key to Android. The Kindle Fire with the Amazon app store is as close to Apple with their sales channel than anyone.

We will see but I think Amazon is the one to watch, not Google.

Re: Marco’s Love of Android

Matt Lamoureux — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:52:09 -0000

I realize that I might not be the typical user, but I just went through my purchase history and I have spent just over $70 in apps and games in the two years that I have been using Android. That being said, the two people in my household that have (or had) Android probably did not even spend $5, but I have a theory about that: gift cards.

Just about every store in existence sells iTunes gift cards, which makes it easy for even a grandmother to buy one for a stocking stuffer, or throw one inside a birthday card, etc. Android doesn't have that concept yet, so if you want that $.99 app, you have to hand Google your credit or debit card info, which is not a trivial thing for people these days.

I do think there are people out there (like me) buying a healthy amount of Android apps, but no - they are probably not the majority of Android users. I just don't think it has to do with the OS or the testing or the quality of the apps themselves. I think it is as simple as convenience and availability. If you got a $25 gift card from your sister for Christmas, you are far more willing to drop $1.99 on some app than going through the process of entering your card information...

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Harshagrs — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:51:57 -0000

Hi Rob,
Why would someone pay for a tool like TextMate if Apple already provides Xcode and TextEdit? I can explain you the areas where AppCode really shines. I am sure you write code which involves delegates and how many times you have copied and pasted the code from either documentation or from a different class? AppCode knows what you want based on the context, it can offer you the messages to implement which is lot of time saver. Or do you know AppCode can show Unused Imports in your code? Believe me no one wants to pay money if something is not living up to the promise.

Just give it a try with open mind and who knows you may suddenly see Xcode lacking so many basic IDE features which can accelerate the coding process.

Regards
Harsha

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

mikbe — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:25:48 -0000

Whenever I read that someone is happy with Xcode I assume they've never used anything else.

I think in this case it might be more of a "vote against the guy you hate" kind of thing. Xcode is so bad, so poorly executed and lacking in basic features other IDE's have had for at least half a decade, that people might jump at any other option. I hate to admit it but Visual Studio beats Xcode in almost every measure of usability and good design. Xcode is bad -- really, really bad. It's so bad it's embarrassing.

Apple completely ignored what makes Macs so great, User Experience, when developing Xcode. It's like the best gardener in the world having a weed filled yard at home.

Re: MacMall : Winner of the Worst Customer Service on the Planet Award

Loren — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:04:46 -0000

I am having just about the same problems with an Air and Bill Me Later. They keep telling me that their modem isn't connecting to Bill Me Later. Ugh! About to cancel.

Re: The Confusing Mobee Magic Charger

Yws — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:56:32 -0000

Or, if he understood a bit physics or chemistry, he won't be as confused either. For one thing, NiMH batteries are NOT "smaller". The 1.2 V per cell limit is intrinsic to its chemistry and however large you make the cell, it is still going to be 1.2V. That doesn't affect the usage in most cases though, other than messing up the readings perhaps.

Re: Easily iPad Enable Your WordPress Blog

Matthew Caldwell — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:38:18 -0000

Please do not do this. The OnSwipe theme is an abomination and every iPad owner I know detests it. WP's default activation of it for their hosted sites is a blight on the web. Do your bit and turn it off.

Re: The Confusing Mobee Magic Charger

Andrew — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:04:57 -0000

I just bought this wireless charger. I left it in the mouse all installed over night charging. In the morning this was still saying 7%. I decided to go back to my old rechargeable batteries and put the battery block on the charging dock. To my amazement 2 hours later the light stopped flashing and remained on. I took my old rechargeable batteries back out and put the fully charged Mobee block in and low and behold the Mac also shows it's charge at 100%.

Brilliant!

Re: The Confusing Mobee Magic Charger

LP72 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:49 -0000

I have also purchased this product from the Apple online store and would advise other consumers to avoid it like the plague. With quite a bit of fiddling I placed the battery pack into the magic mouse. The mouse seems to charge fine in the charger but when I switch the mouse on it doesn't work. I tried to remove the battery pack from the mouse, but it is near impossible. The cover is such a tight fit. I popped down to my local Apple reseller who rolled his eyes when I presented the mouse and charger - he had exactly the same problem with his product and said other customers have as well. The battery pack has to be inserted in a certain way for it to work and the fit is so tight it's near impossible to remove it again. I have the double whammy of a product that doesn't work and a mouse that is now rendered useless as well. I rang my local Apple store who were (surprisingly) worse than useless. They had never seen the product before and said it wasn't their problem.

Re: Lesson Learned : Don’t Be The Cheapest

dzaki — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:39:13 -0000

good topic

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Matt Davis — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:04:24 -0000

I'm a .net developer and have used Visual Studio most of my working career. Visual Studio, love it or hate it, gets the job done straight out of the box and I have never particularly wanted any more. That was until I started using JetBrains ReSharper. It adds so many features that you never knew you wanted until you had them.

Since ReSharper has been around Microsoft has incorporated a number of those features into the IDE. These features may never have arrived or at least taken their time had ReSharper not introduced the tool to the development community.

Praise not only needs to go to JetBrains for developing innovative tools, it should also go to Microsoft who have written the IDE so that plugins like ReSharper can be distributed and installed.

Ultimately competition will drive innovation and that is what we need.

Re: Enough TextMate Talk, Go Write Some Code

Rob Bazinet — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:24:56 -0000

Vim sucks..long live TextMate. Looking forward to version 2.0.

Re: Enough TextMate Talk, Go Write Some Code

sh — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:21:46 -0000

Textmate 2.0 - the missing editor that has compelled thousands to learn Vim once and for all.

Re: The Confusing Mobee Magic Charger

Elkie — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:59:54 -0000

If you understood what Mobee was saying per the battery voltage you would stop being confused and just enjoy the functionality that it provides.

Re: Lesson Learned : Don’t Be The Cheapest

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Re: Downgrading MySQL from 5.5 to 5.1 on OS X

Oleksii Shurubura — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:09:43 -0000

Thanks for the help!

Re: Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem?

vastaman — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:34:26 -0000

IntelliJ is to Eclipse as iOS is to Android. So I expect great things from AppCode.

Re: Running Rails 3 on Windows

Virajdasondi — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:12:56 -0000

great help....

Re: Why Drobo when you can QNAP?

Kenneth Henseler — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:32:16 -0000

What do you mean send the drives back? If you have multiple drives in the Drobo and a drive does fail, you don't have to recover the data from it; simply replace the failed drive and Drobo will automatically rebuild the BeyondRAID with no hiccups. Obviously, don't be silly and use your Drobo with only one or two drives though as this defeats the purpose of redundancy, ya know?

But thanks for the interesting article!

Re: Interesting MobileMe Find My iPhone Behavior on iPhone 3GS

Itech3 — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:04:00 -0000

thanks for the tip it works fine with ipad first then iphone 3gs