karniv0re's Journal: Eclipse Is My Best Friend/Mortal Enemy

Eclipse: When it works, it works better than anything in the world. When
it doesn't, well that's just called a "weekday." But seriously, there
are so many little quirks, particularly with the plugins.

I imagine it's like Firefox, where the base product is relatively solid,
but as you start adding (super useful!) plugins, things start getting
fucked up.

I don't know how many combindations of "Maven -> Update Dependencies",
"Maven -> Update Project Configuration", "Refresh Workspace", "Team -> SVN
Update", "Project -> Clean Project", "Delete Project; Import Existing
Maven Project", and "mvn clean install" to clear up existing problems.

Sometimes one of them works, sometimes I have to start digging in POM
files and making sure dependencies are all pointing in the right places.
What a clusterfuck.

I'm currently writing this entry because it's been "Building Workspace"
for the last 10 minutes. What workspace are you building? What operation
are you performing? Are you playing Tetris behind the scenes? I JUST
WANT TO KNOW YOU, ECLIPSE.

Currently, there is a little red X on one of my projects that shouldn't
be there. I'm trying to clear it up using some of the aforementioned
methods. And as Eclipse does whatever it is its doing, the red X comes
and goes. Like, it thinks about it. "Maybe I found that on the build
path afterall!" "Sike! Building workspace..."

And now that JRebel is in the mix, who knows what it's doing.

For some reason, it is acting so ungodly slow, I'm starting to suspect
there's something else at play. I dunno, too many projects open? Not
enough memory on my machine (duh). I know at this point I'm just
ranting, because I'm still waiting for it to build my goddamn workspace.

"Blocked: The user operation is waiting for 'Building Workspace' to
complete."

STORY OF YOUR LIFE, ECLIPSE.

This is why I am a "Developer" or "Software Engineer" and not a
"Computer Programmer." Because if this job were just programming, it'd
be a lot easier, and I'd get a lot more done.

Ugghhhh. I'm probably just going to start over. This is ridiculous. In
the time it took me to write this entry, I was finally able to get a
"clean install" done. And guess what. BUILD SUCCESSFUL. Even though
there's still a little red X on my project. So fuck you, Eclipse. You
don't know shit.

(And this is just the first half hour of my day.)