Pimp My Editor "Taking Eclipse to the film Industry" #ece2011
This talk will present the story of Story Touch (http://storytouch.com), a novel script writing software developed for brazilian based O2 Filmes, South America's largest movie producer. The development process took over 3 years using agile methodologies. The first version was released after just 2 weeks of the beginning of the project evolving to a full featured solution ready to compete with the Industry's standard solution. We will show how we helped our client shape his ideas into an unprecedented tool that gives the power of dramaturgy analysis to script writers. We will share our difficulties and show how we used RCP technologies like StyledText, dynamic ContributionItems and P2 to build a complete desktop solution with an awesome WYSIWYG text editor, with features like pages, zoom, printing, line counting (with soft-wrap), variable margins and all the standard stuff you expect. We will also release this text editor as an open source plugin to give back to this wonderful community. The attendants will better understand how to use the full potential of RCP to explore new industries and provide them with professional solutions. You will learn from our mistakes and understand how to best use features like auto-updates and bug reporting to keep your customers satisfied. We will share our knowledge of applying agile practices like TDD, automated functional tests, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Story Touch is an RCP application which is updated to the customer base nightly, it has had over a thousand versions built in its lifetime. One month after it's recent launch it reached a thousand customers.
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Pimp My Editor "Taking Eclipse to the film Industry" #ece2011
- 1. Pimp MyEditor Taking Eclipse to the Film industry @freire_da_silva ffreire@thoughtworks.com
- 2. Alexandre Freire @freire_da_silva alex@indutriallogic.com
- 6. Script Writing - Overview
- 8. Tracks and Scenes Table
- 9. It’s a big RCP application •45 plugins •5 fragments •66k lines of code •9 features •22 test plugins •7 products •62k lines of test code
- 10. Latin America’s biggest production company
- 13. Our client: Paulo Morelli
- 14. What’s wrong with Final Draft?
- 15. What’s wrong with Final Draft? Nothing! After all everybody uses it...
- 19. Project Inception X
- 20. Project Inception X XUL RCP
- 21. Project Inception X XUL RCP
- 22. Project Inception X XUL RCP Fast delivery Customized
- 23. Project Inception X XUL RCP Fast delivery Customized
- 24. Project Inception X XUL RCP Fast delivery Customized MPL EPL
- 25. Project Inception X XUL RCP Fast delivery Customized MPL EPL
- 26. Development: 3 month Prototype
- 27. 1 st Iteration: June 08
- 28. Software for controlled use
- 30. 4 th Iteration: October 08
- 31. Does the client want to Demo? •Not yet... •Only imports from Final Draft •Can’t change text •We need an editor •New deadline
- 32. 6 th Iteration: December 08
- 33. Demo?
- 34. New rules •It’s my product now! •Pay the technical debt •Less presure •No deadline
- 35. Difficulties
- 37. But it doesn’t do everything •Header •Footer •Pages •Print •Export to PDF •Zoom •Count lines •Variable margins •Paragraph spacing •Soft-wrap •WYSIWYG
- 39. Agile but small
- 40. Agile: Collaboration •Closed scope contract •Merge pain •3 iterations •Took longer than expected •Phased integration •Performance issues
- 41. Lessons: extend Eclipse’s components Fragment
- 42. The result
- 43. ExtendedStyledText: API Extend SourceViewer: •Create ExtendedStyledText •Use a custom DocumentAdapter
- 44. ExtendedStyledText: API Your DocumentAdaptor needs to implement:
- 45. ExtendedStyledText: API For Headers and Footers: You can also decorate lines
- 48. Open Source: we love it! https://github.com/thoughtworks/eclipse_editor_widget
- 49. Eclipse Goodies: Dynamic Contribution Items
- 56. Eclipse Goodies: Auto Complete
- 58. Eclipse Goodies: Themes the emo story we had to override some stuff, art director, looking forward to eclipse 4 - CSS!
- 59. Eclipse Goodies: Feature based Product
- 60. Eclipse Goodies: Undo and Redo
- 62. Agile: TDD
- 63. Agile: Tracking Technical Debt
- 68. Agile: Close interaction with end users
- 69. Present State
- 70. Collaborate! https://github.com/thoughtworks/eclipse_editor_widget •USE IT! •6 FIXMEs •5 TODOs •Testing •More Testing •Support for RTF Cut & Paste •More Page Sizes •Images •Eclipse 4 version
- 71. Thank You Questions ??? We are hiring! @freire_da_silva ffreire@thoughtworks.com