Sigh

Eclipse dialogSee this dialog? I’m seeing a lot of it. I’m working on a very large project, and this one particular file is the main GUI for our system. The guy who started it was in love with Visual Age For Java, and didn’t like splitting his stuff into separate classes, and after I took it over I’ve pretty much continued along the same lines, so this file is over 10,000 lines long. Yes, you read that right, ten thousand lines of poorly documented code.

Just about every word you type into Eclipse in this file either leads to a long delay as the CPU maxes out and the disk churns, or this dialog. I’ve tried quitting everything else to provide more memory for it to work in (you’d think 2Gb of RAM would be enough for Eclipse, Safari, iChat and iTunes to get along, and you’d be wrong).

Sigh.

UpdateOk, what sort of moron declares a method to throw “Exception”?

My irony meter exploded

Last night, in a parking lot I saw a bumper sticker that said something like “Live lightly so that others may live”. A great sentiment, except I saw it on a gigantic SUV. And not one of the semi-practical ones that looked like it was on its way to a cabin in the woods or was full of climbing gear and skis, I’m talking one of those pristine, shiny, leather seats and chrome monstrosities that never leaves the pavement.