This weekend in Tech : A thinking IDE - Collective Intelligence in Software Development
Think of a scenario when you are using a new framework or working with a mega API set provided by a packaged solution maker (ERP/PLM/CMS).If you are like me you would fire up the eclipse IDE first and put the new framework jar files available in class-path & would rather like to read the API documentation as you code. For every dot you press eclipse would auto-suggest you tons of methods that you could call!
What if by some wonderful magic eclipse would only suggest a subset of the methods that is most suitable , with a quantifiable measure of that methods suitability! Code Recommenders does something similar by making "you much faster and even help you to understand the frameworks you use". To see the code recommenders in action watch the screencast below. If you would like to give it a shot this Monday at work, the eclipse plugin is available here