Atomic Object has a great tradition of making and customizing tools. It’s a habit I’ve gained and lost several times over my career — keeping tools sharp requires time and effort. Fortunately, one of the best things about becoming an Atom is that all of my colleagues care deeply about software, so it’s easy to find inspiration to start making tools again.
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Hate-Driven Development
Most development at Atomic gets done in Vim, but occasionally we get work that better fits the use of Visual Studio or IntelliJ IDEA. When we do, we take advantage of the intelligent code features of these IDEs. Despite occasionally feeling slower in .NET or Java than in, say, Ruby or CoffeeScript, one way to keep up the pace is with a technique we call Hate-Driven Development.
Using IntelliJ for Rails Development
I recently joined my first Rails project. While the other two developers on the team use TextMate, I decided to try IntelliJ’s Ruby plug-in because I already owned and knew how to use IntelliJ. (I’m using IntelliJ 9.0.4. IntelliJ 10 was recently released.)