Refactor this, refactor that .....
I am sure you have all at least heard of ReSharper from Jetbrains and perhaps like me you figured what's the big deal .... Why should I go buy yet another Visual Studio plugin that does what Visual Studio already does out of the box .....
Well lemme tell you a story ....
It all started the other day when I had the "privelage" of doing some peer development. I sat and watched (and added input every now and then :P) and was amazed at what I saw. With a few simple keystrokes I couldn't quite recognise stuff magically appeared, dissapeared, and moved around. How the heck did you do that? And that? Wow, that was cool, do that again ..... Turns out he was using ReSharper and using it properly. Turns out that ReSharper is much more than just a little tool which adds extra colour to your already colourful code. So he gave me a quick re-introduction to the tool and sent me over to this blog post, 31 Days of ReSharper, by Joe White's blog. Here Joe spends 31 days getting to know the product very intimately and discovers some of the really cool features of this amazing tool.
I like to have my machine as clean as possible and find that when you have this tool for this, and that tool for that ultimately good ole Windows starts to complain and things get slower and slower leading up to the inevitable blue screen of death, or the equally painful hair ripping out sessions I have done all too often (and my baldness is testament to that. Now here is a tool that replaces multiple other tools in one neat, configurable, concise and easy to use manner.
Well worth the $149 .....
I see 3.0 Beta has launched, and if you purchase the current version now they will offer free upgrade to v3.0 when it launches ....
Watch this space for some more once I've used it a bit in everyday life.
