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Our top story this week is "Speed development with Eclipse wizards,"
an excellent introduction to creating wizards within Eclipse. The
article uses the example of a software development team creating
applications that contain consistent, almost boilerplate code. While
the article focuses on Eclipse in a development context, I think
any Eclipse developer who needs to create wizards will learn much
from "Speed development with Eclipse wizards."
This made me wonder where the first software wizard
appeared. According to the Wikipedia, wizards premiered in Microsoft
Publisher in 1991, then went on to fame in Windows 95 where a wizard
helped millions connect their PCs to the then-new interweb. While
Microsoft lead the way with wizards, the company also showed us one
can take automated assistance too far, which we learned from Clippy
and Bob.
Until next week,
Mark Cappel, Open source zone editor
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