Similar things going on where I am at. It's to be expected when you work for the military. :) (I work with highly insensitive materials, however at night I'm a secret agent. The two aren't related.)
It's mostly a lot of talk though. "You will use that and you will not use anything else." It never holds up because the bottom line is that the work needs to get done. It's such a pain to get commercial software (still waiting on IDEA), the free stuff is a no-brainer, go download it. I'm using netbeans, ant, tomcat, struts, junit, etc, even though none of these products have been "blessed", they are all kicking a lot of ass. Standards are important, but not so much that you have to cram them down everyone's throats. Standardized methodologies, i.e., these are our techniques for analysing and designing, and we use versioning control and we test our code, are much more valuable than forcing developers to use a particular toolset. At one time their was talk of us being told we have to use JDeveloper. What a nightmare that would have been. However, I draw the line at what MP3 player people use. In my office, it's Winamp, or no music, no debate. L8r, Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:31 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: [OT] Standardised Environments (was RE: [OT] Eclipse IDE) > > > Our management (I won't say leadership, for reasons that will > be obvious to experienced IS developers) also have the belief > that standardisation is good. We are having our J2EE > workstations defined to the n'th degree and they will all be > locked down so that you can't change anything. You can't even > change your windows wallpaper!!! Our IDE is defined, you'd > better like it because you can't install anything else. All > in the sacred name of productivity. > > Anyone else out there going through this or have advice to share? > > I am planning to bring my personal laptop to work to do any > of my tinkering on. I like to think that my tinkering is > helpful to the company, but you wouldn't think so from these > new policies. This past year, I have introduced to the > company's IS environment four new tools that I evaluated by > tinkering with in those downtimes between projects. > Specifically, these tools are Struts (hey, you know I like > Struts! :-), ant, junit and Cygwin. The funny thing, to me, > is that these tools evaluated by tinkering are going to be > part of the new locked down standard! Gotta laugh. > > Simon > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Daniel H. F. e Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:39 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [OT] Eclipse IDE - The Two Towers > > > > > >Hi all, > > I do appreciate all feedback posted here in this list. > > Well, i am only executing orders. I don't intend to obligate > >everybody to adopt my > >recomendations. > >My boss wants a standard environment to all developers. So, > >order is order. > > I think his concern about this task is to improve > >productivity. So, what is more productive? > > Following our discussion, does someone have experience > >writing Eclipse plugins? How difficult is > >this kind of task? > > > >Best regards, > > Daniel. > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user->[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For > >additional commands, > >e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
