Eclipse, just when I thought we were getting on…
October 1st, 2007 | Posted in Development, PHP | 6 Comments
In an earlier post I talked about how great Eclipse was as an all purpose IDE. Then it decides to let me down in the most spectacular way possible.
I was working on a project for a client, deadline was 2pm. Managed to get the last bit done at 2.05pm. Excellent I thought, all I need to do is upload and we’re done. In Eclipse I had two files open. One of which needed uploading which took me several hours to code and test. I switched to my FTP client to upload, surprisingly, I couldn’t find the file in the file explorer part of the FTP client. Strange… So I switched back to Eclipse, the file had disappeared from the list of open files. Several panicky searches later and the worst possible thing had happened. The file had simply “disappeared”. WTF?!?! As you can imagine, I wasn’t best pleased. Many many many four letter words later I decided to re-code the page. By the time I was finished it was 5pm. OK, only a few hours late.
Searching forums I discovered that this had happened to other Eclipse users. This to me seems like a MAJOR issue which needs addressing.
If you not done this yet, I’d suggest that you use software versioning system such as Subversion or CVS. At least if anything happen in Eclipse, you’ll still have something in your repository to start back. It’ll save you a lot.
I recommend you to read Pragmatic Version Control book.
Have you tried Netbeans 6.0 beta? I’m suprised that Netbeans has improved tremendously from Netbeans 5.5. I’m using the nightly build version to develop my Ruby on Rails application. I find it really stable. I’m used to use Eclipse last time, but now, after months of using Netbeans, I’d recommend Netbeans.
Subversion is something i already have set up. Unfortunately i hadn’t committed the file to the repos so it wouldn’t have helped. (i know i know, slap wrist).
Will give Netbeans a look, i always thought of it as a pure Java IDE, never knew it could handle other languages. Cheers.
I use PHP Designer from MPSoftware and haven’t had problems with it. I didn’t have the problem that you had with Eclipse, but I didn’t like the way that the autocomplete worked, it wouldn’t pull in functions etc… from files that you had brought in through require or require_once.
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