On 2010-06-27 18:03:56 -0400, kirby urner said:
Some of you may be familiar with the O'Reilly School of Technology (OST) and its use of Eclipse as a front end to accredited courses in the many languages, databases and so on.
Rather than use the free-standing Eclipse, which is an option, you get a customized student version called Ellipse that runs of their servers in a remote desktop session.
This seems a creative approach and gets a next generation of developer prepared with one of the state of the art environments, using some of the best industry standard tools (e.g. Python and MySQL).
I can understand why they did it. They haven't won me over to eclipse though. I just find the interface too busy for my liking (although that could just be the way they ahve it setup for the school). If I am doing a few scripts I use Vim but I recently purchased PyCharm from the Jetbrains folks. I am really liking it. It is fairly new, but they are responsive to requests and have some nice features in the IDE (lots of Django integration, etc.). Anyway, choice is a good thing. :) -- Robert