Thursday October 21, 2004 Matt Ingenthron's Stream of Consciousness
Thursday October 21, 2004 NetBeans 4.0 Refactoring is Cool!
Okay, we don't all stick to software development processes and planning when writing quick little utilities, do we. When we're writing little bits of code that aren't likely to touch much else, we don't really think through things like variable names, class names and method names.
Still, we want it to make some sense, right?
Well, what do you do when you're 4-5 classes into a program and you realize you want to change a method name and a variable name to go with the rest of it. Hats off the the open source NetBeans project-- in 4.0 you can just right click and say "Refactor -> Rename [method | class | variable]". It took little more than a few seconds to do something that historically would have been a lot of effort.
Too bad this project doesn't even care about the performance profiler-- if it did I could open the shrinkwrap on that new toy...
Great job guys!
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