Re: Storing notes/thoughts about code in Xcode and in the code
Re: Storing notes/thoughts about code in Xcode and in the code
- Subject: Re: Storing notes/thoughts about code in Xcode and in the code
- From: Bjoern Knafla <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:40:46 +0200
Just create design notes in separate files. If you wish, you can
give them
a uniform suffix, like ".dnote", or incorporate a uniform pattern
in the
name, such as always having the word "notes" before the suffix
(i.e. the
globbing pattern "notes.*").
That is a good idea. Thanks for the tip - I will use it - though I
would really like to have a link between a note and the line of code
it is describing. (Though I always wonder why SmartFolders just use
pattern matching for file names instead of also allowing pattern
matching in the file itself (alas Spotlight)).
If you're waiting for a cool Xcode feature to get you started
writing design
notes, forget it. The cool feature won't improve your design
documentation. Nor is it likely to motivate you to write design
notes,
except briefly. The difficult part is the discipline to
consistently write
meaningful design notes, and no cool feature will give you that.
I am not waiting on it . Currently I just use a pen and paper to do
this. But it would be great to have this feature, especially with a
link between notes and code. And as Xcode 3.x is still in the making
this could be a nice feature to add ;-)
Cheers,
Bjoern
--
Bjoern Knafla
Research Associate
University of Kassel
Research Group Programming Languages / Methodologies
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
www.plm.eecs.uni-kassel.de/plm/index.php?id=bknafla
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