Lots of Eclipse Usage at Work, Might as Well Get It
First week here and it's clear that there's no one universal set of development tools or techniques - C#, C++, Java, Flex, even VB... it's a lot of tools and there's very little unification of method, style, documentation, etc. It's very much what I expected - dictated by the needs of each group, but one thing is clear - if I want to be more in-line with the group, it'll mean that I need to get used to Eclipse or IntelliJ. Now, I'm not about to get IntelliJ for my Mac, but I can download Eclipse and then have a go with it.
So this morning I decided to have a run at Eclipse for my MacBook Pro. The download was beefy, but it's got all the tools I should need - even the CVS integration. I know there's a subversion plugin for Eclipse (Subclipse) but I want to chat with Troy about that before I go installing that. Maybe it's nice, maybe it's junk. Gotta get his take on it.
If that works out, then I should have Eclipse running on my Mac like I do on my machines at work. Not bad. Certainly Flex development is all done in Eclipse (the initial motivator) and a good bit of the Java work might be there as well. Don't know. But it doesn't hurt, and it's good to be as versed in the tools the other folks are using as the ones I'm used to.
UPDATE: Troy used it and thought it was fine - worked great. So I looked at the 'Download and Install' page and there it told me exactly how to point to the published install location and from there, Eclipse takes over and handles the install and update. Easy enough to do, and now I'm ready to do SVN work within Eclipse.