Comments on: Code Dimensions; How can we write code in more than 2D?

By: Shawn Simister

Shawn Simister — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:05:35 +0000

I’d really like to see an “awesome bar” (like in Firefox) in the Bespin UI that would allow me to “zoom” in and out of the package structure of my applications by typing things like:

com.example.project
com.example.project.Class
com.example.project.Class.method

Being able to click on method or class names and get taken to that view would be nice as well.

By: Zbigniew Lukasiak

Zbigniew Lukasiak — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:25:22 +0000

A propos doing more with time – in the Google Wave proposal there is an option to reply how a Wave was constructed. Seems that it’s time has come.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:52:10 +0000

If you like code canvas, you might also like codemap (shameless self-advertisment, I admit :). I try to provide developers with a stable mental model of their code, using a layout based on vocabulary.

See http://scg.unibe.ch/codemap

By: Charlie O'Keefe

Charlie O'Keefe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:48:06 +0000

Nice, a spry planner mention :)

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:32:04 +0000

That video reminds me of how source code was presented with live diagrams and hyperlinks in Doug Engelbart’s “The Mother of All Demos”—in 1968!

By: Basu

Basu — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:34:34 +0000

I used to be a fan of old school text-editors like Emacs, especially since Emacs was programmable. But after using Eclipse for a while, I’m coming to realize, that is useful to have your editor/IDE know more about your code. I like being able to select a method name in Eclipse and see all the places where it’s being called (and defined). At the same time I hate the clutter that comes with most IDE UIs. I’m hoping that Bespin with some powerful server backends will offer the way out by providing a clean, sleek UI along with tools that really *understand* the code and provide meaningful information and representations

By: Brent Ashley

Brent Ashley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:14:13 +0000

I always chuckle when I recall my favourite quote from Douglas Crockford at one of the Ajax Experience events when on a panel discussing 3D in the browser.

“I don’t know what the big fuss is about. It’s only one more ‘D’.”