How I Spent My Spring Break
I spent my spring break climbing Mount Eclipse. Eclipse is a programming environment, and has a nice plugin architecture that allows people like me to extend it to do new things. We’re using it to implement our prototype software plans tool. I’m currently doing a reimplementation of my students previous prototype, cleaning up some of their suboptimal design decisions.
The problem is that Eclipse has a pretty steep learning curve. My students implemented the functionality we needed using some “hacks” that are hurting us now. So I’m trying to figure out the right way to do things. It took me several days to get productive, but it looks like things are moving along now.