It has been far to long since the last R#TOTD, so to ease back in, I thought we’d take it slow with this one.

If you’re unfortunate enough to have your methods grow beyond what can fit on a screen, or just happen to have the method scrolled off the top of the screen, you can identify those closing braces with ease. When ReSharper goes to match the opening brace for the current closing brace at the cursor, a pop up with a tooltip appears if that brace happens to be out of view. It is very handy in finding closing namespace and class braces.

It gets even better in RubyMine with syntax highlighting and a semi-permanent window (i.e. it will stay visible while you scroll). Even though I’m not a Ruby developer by trade, I still use RubyMine for editing all my JavaScript files. The intellisense is great and you get ReSharper-like context refactorings in JavaScript files.

I catch a lot of grief at work, hopefully in jest, about my non-traditional IDE colors. After reading through some links on A Continuous Learner’s Weblog I stumbled upon a link showing people’s dark IDE colors, so I thought I would post mine. I’ve tried a lot of different IDE colors, but still haven’t been persuaded away from my color scheme.

I stole the example text from CodingHorror. The font is Monaco which comes with Mac OS X, but can also be found for the PC.