Boredom sucks

nekros · Post by **nekros** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:14 pm

Do any of you have days when you can't bring yourself to write a single line of code? I'm having one right now.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:21 pm

All the time, man!

-JL

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:49 pm

Yes, I have those all the time. Fortunately, today wasn't one of them, and I was able to rewrite most of my website's core! Woot.

It's called coders block, afaik.

xyzzy · Post by **xyzzy** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:21 am

I had one of them yesterday, then had the misfortune to discover VisualBoyAdvance and my old collection of GBA ROMs, so I spent several hours playing them. Complete waste of time

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:26 am

I always find myself spending a lot of time downloading and trying out new IDEs, in the hope that they will make my programming more efficient. Needless to say, actually doing some programming would also make me more efficient.

On the upside, I can tell you: Don't bother with Visual Studio Pro.

xyzzy · Post by **xyzzy** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:29 am

Yayyak wrote:On the upside, I can tell you: Don't bother with Visual Studio Pro.

I wasn't planning to

. Last time I used Visual Studio I wanted to punch the nearest MS developer. In fact, I get that feeling a lot when using MS software

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:32 am

try out CodeBlocks... it's extremely great, and just had a new release..

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:34 am

I was just pissed off that it installed software on my machine (.NET compact framework 2.5 is an example), that didn't get removed in the Uninstall process, and I COULDN'T uninstall it. It stays there.

It's not bad software. It's just arrogant. It does not own my PC, but it thinks it does. Thank God* that it was only the trial edition.

*Well, the MS download site, really.

AJ · Post by AJ » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:03 am

hckr83 wrote:try out CodeBlocks... it's extremely great, and just had a new release..

Cheers, I'll have a look at that - I used to use the old version, but then switched to Eclipse because I got bored waiting for the new release (and wasn't prepared to keep manually updating the various betas.

Cheers,
Adam

binutils · Post by **binutils** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:56 am

FYI, https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Overview.aspx

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PS: mine is vc60/acme, 3 days ago, i had tried latest codeblocks, it works fine, but the speed and the default theme is just sloppy.

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:15 am

CodeLite is a rather nice IDE. I found it quite a while ago and was impressed with the features. It's simple yet powerful, just the way I like it.