John Lam introduced me to Mark Miller, Chief Architect of Developer Express, and he gave me a tour of their product, CodeRush (apparently the company used to be called Eagle Software, and this was a tool popular in the Delphi space). Anyway, CodeRush is now a Visual Studio .NET plugin that makes writing code a ton more fun, and really increases your productivity (I've been using EMACS lately but this might just switch me back). Their smart use of graphic elements like things so simple as a little imploding circle that draws your attention to where the cursor is whenever they move it for you really brings the world of text and graphics together in a way I've never seen before. It's very impressive. Because I was a speaker, I got a free copy.
Here's the problem. The product doesn't run properly unless you're an administrator. Bah! I've sent mail to Mark and hopefully he can get the problems resolved, because I'd love to give this product a try. Sadly I can't say how good this product is because it's pretty much unusable for me at the moment.
Posted
May 27 2004, 09:27 PM
by
keith-brown