I hate blogging more than once a day. But as soon as I posted my last one I checked the CDT bug reports to see what was coming in. I ran into this one, 207482, raising the issue that the option to intermix header and source files in the Projects explorer isn't working. That's no good since I hate that we separate them now. But I didn't realize we had put in that option and will have to try it out and see what's wrong.
But never mind that. What really made my day was the e-mail address of who raised it, whirlpool.com. You know, I suppose that appliances are so advanced these days that they have a processor and a hunk of firmware that runs them. And why not use the CDT to develop that firmware, it's one of the things we're really good at. Assuming that's what this guy is doing (and I don't think it's my place to ask since that's probably proprietary information), Cool!
We occasionally get mail in the webmaster inbox from people in large companies which have no apparent connection to Eclipse, computers and/or software design. Sometimes these people are looking for information on how to set up an internal mirror site for Eclipse downloads.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder what it is they do with Eclipse, and how important Eclipse is to their company's operations.
Yeah, it's hard to tell whether they are hobbiests or using Eclipse for production code. If they are setting up mirrors, you know it's pretty damn important to the company.
ReplyDeleteIf you are using Eclipse in your day to day job that isn't as obvious as we might think. Feel free to leave a comment. Even if you don't use your real company name, we'd love to hear how Eclipse is being used out there.