I actually remember the days when I learned HTML 3.0 from a book. I also remember coding it by hand and tracking the links so that nothing breaks. Of course the day I discovered that there are tools that let you run your site as a project gave my life a whole new sense and I could just dedicate myself to graphic design. The last couple of years as I started to program seriously the concept of "project" was implicit but it was mostly static and the IDE's did not help a lot with team development. So what I hope will happen that projects will start to interoperate. Ant, Snv, Bugtraq, trac, xUnit, profilers etc. have to be integrated and allow for a better project management for the entire group and we need OpenSource solutions, yesterday. Rational has had them for a long time but they had great cost. Microsoft is now lowering the bar (in price) with Team System but it's still not free. I have greatest hopes from eclipse as I see most development effort and easiest extensibility in it's model, but can it be done, will it be done? These are questions that only time will answer.

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