Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
User Attention Span, the New Performance Metric
When I was a kid, I was raised on Sesame Street. I learned some counting and some reading, but most importantly, I learned how to pay attention in 3 minute chunks of time. Over the years, that time has been cut down to somewhere around 30 seconds, which means that the advertising industry has [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Programming,SlickEdit Products by Scott Hackett
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Better way to find Eclipse command Ids, and more…
Core 3.4.0 introduced the Slick-C function _eclipse_execute_command which allows you to execute Eclipse commands from the SlickEdit environment. The documentation for this function shows you how you can search the Plug-in Registry to find Eclipse command names and ids, but there is a much better way documented in the following blog post: http://evans-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/it-seems-that-im-not-only-one-still.html . Unfortunately [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Code Editors,Productivity,SlickEdit Products by Ryan
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Defect or Feature Request?
SlickEdit is switching over to a different bug tracking system, so I’ve got that topic much on my mind lately. It’s amazing how complex something so simple can be. I’ve never seen a group of developers larger than three agree on how to do it. I like the generic term, “change request” for all changes [...]
