freeing myself from the bonds of tools
since i started coding in ruby (did i mention that i still haven’t tried rails? so i can still say not to be a member of the hype) using plain text editors i got increasingly annoyed by eclipse’s automatic code assist feature when being with java again. while it’s cool to have it tell you all the member functions of an object available it often enough overwrites a piece of my code with its own suggestion. (especially method calls on objects, after typing the dot).
using said text editor for ruby and typing all those variable names and method calls myself felt in a way refreshing. i was the one in control again, not my IDE.
to gain the same comfort for java/eclipse, all i had to do was to switch automatic code assist off (window -> preferences -> java -> editor -> code assist -> untick ‘enable auto activation’). so now i still have it at hand when needed using [ctrl]+[space], but it does not interfere with my coding anymore. and i am using it much less now - power to the people 
