Just as the huge Eclipse love-in was getting started around here ...

Eclipse goes and eats my Ruby files.

I just discovered the best feature ever...

When using Eclipse with Subclipse you have the option to role back code for every save that you've made locally.

This might not sound like much but I've been burnt several time in visual studio where I think I'm deleting the correct file and click OK to the "This file will be permanently destroyed" message.

Ever have two completely unrelated problems ... only to realise they are manifestations of exactly the same issue? Sometimes it feels like a win.

... Version Control.

I might as well put in my two cents about version control, now that git has been getting all the blog press for the last, oh, forever. I'm always late to the party. For example, I just started working in ruby this year, and have already missed all the cool kids at RubyFringe.

I've been working on some data fitting routines lately. My natural response was to grab my copy of Numerical Recipes, and thought that their section on the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm would be useful. I mentioned it to Jamie, and he said "you'd better check the license."

As Jamie said, we're doing some Python development in Eclipse, so I cooked up a quick Vibrant Ink-ish color scheme for PyDev. Here is the PyDev preference file for Eclipse.

Both Jamie and I have been turned onto the Vibrant Ink theme for editing. This theme was originally designed for Textmate, but has been ported to other editors and IDEs. The two that we are using are:

It's what the community knows.