Money making scheme 1-Plug in for a programming envrioment

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So awhile back I found a website http://www.rentacoder.com. It would seem that people put up projects, and then there's a free for all bidding war to go an do them.

So I then went back on one of my older ideas, which amongst other things would be a programming envrioment well suited to producing code fast. So after I did some hunting based on same educated guesses, I found out that the programming envrioment I use (NetBeans already is done in a way that makes it really easy to build plugins for it.

Which is good because it means that I don't need to program as much, and this is probably going to be a big project to begin with.

My idea is that I could complete a lot of small programming projects quickly.


I figure I can put in something to work with templates (big chunks of text, with some spaces in there that gets filled in when the template is applied on something), and another part that will look at the code itself and build up a model of it. That model could be used to do some 'strange things'. I say 'Strange Things' because I'm keeping it open right now. But as an example, you could use it to write the name of the second variable you've declared.

In addition to helping prevent carpal tunnel syndrome, it could help a lot with some of the 'thinking' in programming that goes on (or should go on) before typing anything. One could say that the actual typing is a pretty incidental part of programming. Which means that I might just be wasting a lot of time.

Worse comes to worse though, it would probably make me look impressive and I'd have better luck getting projects.

You could also check out Eclipse with the Visual Editor plugin;

I checked out NetBeans, but or some reason my Evil-alarm went off;

For C++ I prefer DevC++ which you can make really good templates for;

I did use Eclipse for a bit, but I didn't like it.


And again, I'm not just looking for a good editor, I want something I can tweak like crazy. In the OP I intentionally tried to avoid using a lot of programming talk. But some of the things I'm thinking of doing would be a macro that say types the name of the index variable in a for loop. And some 'macros' (it's getting into a fuzzy area now) would pop up with windows for user input, and within that many of the same behavoirs would apply.

So if you where in a for loop, and you activated one of these things, you could press the thing that gives you the index variable name and it would put it in the text box.


I had considered using EMacs, but I would need to learn an entirely new language, and I suspect I'd have to build a lot.

And NetBeans has a fantastic GUI Builder.