Comments on: My first day with IntelliJ IDEA http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea Thoughts on poker, programming and other stuff. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cbrevard http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-11795 cbrevard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:40:56 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-11795 Relative to IDEA, Eclipse is an unstable mess. The preferences window alone speaks to the absurdity of its design. Not to mention the dependency mechanism for plugins. SVN integration? Maven integration? Eclipse does a lot of things poorly and few of them well, as befits the "focus" of its community. Relative to IDEA, Eclipse is an unstable mess. The preferences window alone speaks to the absurdity of its design. Not to mention the dependency mechanism for plugins. SVN integration? Maven integration?

Eclipse does a lot of things poorly and few of them well, as befits the “focus” of its community.

]]> By: denis http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-7385 denis Mon, 19 May 2008 21:04:53 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-7385 "*.multiClickSpeed: 400" must be "*.multiClickTime: 400" “*.multiClickSpeed: 400″ must be “*.multiClickTime: 400″

]]> By: Charlie Hubbard http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-3555 Charlie Hubbard Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:29:32 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-3555 Ctrl-Alt-Space will allow you to code complete on classes in your classpath, and it will import whatever you want to pull in. Also Eclipse is way to mouse intensive. Searching for everything that implements an interface is such a pain. Ctrl-Alt-b allows you to jump to everything that implements an interface, abstract class, or subclass. You don't have to navigate to the class definition which is such a time saver just move the mouse of the name of the class anywhere (Variable Definition, Class implementer, anywhere). But, if you do a quick Ctrl=b will take you there. Opening a class from the keyboard Ctrl n and start typing. Eclipse has three crappy boxes that you have to tab between. If you have classes or files with the same name just use the arrow keys. That's one of the biggest pains in Eclipse. Ctrl Shift n and open any file in your project just by typing the name. Ctrl i for implement methods, Ctr o for overiding. Alt Insert and generate getters, setters, constructors, equals and hashcode quickly. Spring Ctrl space in XML files (like Spring), and you can do auto completion on class names so quickly for Spring files, web.xml, etc. The eclipse debugger is lame. Intellij has code sense built into the evaluation. Watches are lame, but Intellij can evaluate any expression you want on demand (Atl-F8). Can't remember a name hit Ctrl-Space to explore an instance's methods, variables, etc. It's like working with Ruby or Python doing exploratory programming. Atl-F7 quickly find any usages in your project. Ctrl Shift-F7 highlight usages in the file. Highlight a string before hitting the keystroke and it will find all string expressions in the file. Ctrl l and you can jump between all of your results. Ctrl Alt L to quickly reformat any code, xml, html, javascript. Those are just some of the features I use all the time. I'm having to use Eclipse and I hate it. I'm at least 5x slower with Eclipse, and the power just isn't there. Ctrl-Alt-Space will allow you to code complete on classes in your classpath, and it will import whatever you want to pull in.

Also Eclipse is way to mouse intensive. Searching for everything that implements an interface is such a pain. Ctrl-Alt-b allows you to jump to everything that implements an interface, abstract class, or subclass. You don’t have to navigate to the class definition which is such a time saver just move the mouse of the name of the class anywhere (Variable Definition, Class implementer, anywhere). But, if you do a quick Ctrl=b will take you there.

Opening a class from the keyboard Ctrl n and start typing. Eclipse has three crappy boxes that you have to tab between. If you have classes or files with the same name just use the arrow keys. That’s one of the biggest pains in Eclipse.

Ctrl Shift n and open any file in your project just by typing the name.

Ctrl i for implement methods, Ctr o for overiding.

Alt Insert and generate getters, setters, constructors, equals and hashcode quickly.

Spring Ctrl space in XML files (like Spring), and you can do auto completion on class names so quickly for Spring files, web.xml, etc.

The eclipse debugger is lame. Intellij has code sense built into the evaluation. Watches are lame, but Intellij can evaluate any expression you want on demand (Atl-F8). Can’t remember a name hit Ctrl-Space to explore an instance’s methods, variables, etc. It’s like working with Ruby or Python doing exploratory programming.

Atl-F7 quickly find any usages in your project. Ctrl Shift-F7 highlight usages in the file. Highlight a string before hitting the keystroke and it will find all string expressions in the file. Ctrl l and you can jump between all of your results.

Ctrl Alt L to quickly reformat any code, xml, html, javascript.

Those are just some of the features I use all the time. I’m having to use Eclipse and I hate it. I’m at least 5x slower with Eclipse, and the power just isn’t there.

]]> By: Web Site Design http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-3366 Web Site Design Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:09:12 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-3366 <strong>Web Site Design...</strong> I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting... Web Site Design…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: Loom http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-3351 Loom Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:19:26 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-3351 In regards to the double clicking in IDEA the reason why it's hard to open files by double clicking is that Java programs e.g. IDEA reads the double click speed from X11 resources. If it is not explicitly set then it defaults to 200 ms which is lightning fast. In order to have a more sane threshold create ~/.Xresources and add: *.multiClickSpeed: 400 In regards to the double clicking in IDEA the reason why it’s hard to open files by double clicking is that Java programs e.g. IDEA reads the double click speed from X11 resources. If it is not explicitly set then it defaults to 200 ms which is lightning fast.

In order to have a more sane threshold create ~/.Xresources and add:

*.multiClickSpeed: 400

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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: Computer Maintenance Tips http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-3298 Computer Maintenance Tips Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:04:17 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-3298 <strong>Computer Maintenance Tips...</strong> I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting... Computer Maintenance Tips…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: Business Ideas Forum http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-3276 Business Ideas Forum Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:40:31 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-3276 <strong>Business Ideas Forum...</strong> I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting... Business Ideas Forum…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: Website Templates and Web Design, Graphic Layouts http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-3267 Website Templates and Web Design, Graphic Layouts Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:36:12 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-3267 <strong>Website Templates and Web Design, Graphic Layouts...</strong> Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)... Website Templates and Web Design, Graphic Layouts…

Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :) …

]]> By: The Bull http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/comment-page-1#comment-2919 The Bull Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:19:54 +0000 http://thebull.macsimumweb.com/my-first-day-with-intellij-idea/#comment-2919 @Marcos: I too like the incremental compiler. @Steve: That is a surely complicated way to get the folding, but I'll give it a shot. Nothing beats jEdit when it comes to folding... @Thomas: I did say it was only the first day :). The perspectives can be confusing, but honestly I never leave the Java one, even when doing web apps, with the very infrequent use of the SVN perspective (you don't need to use it when committing or updating). @the dooder: I don't work on a Mac for TextMate, but one of the guys at work is going that route. I have, on occasion, just used jEdit with the appropriate plugins. A very nice tool, and talk about light-weight! @Marcos: I too like the incremental compiler.

@Steve: That is a surely complicated way to get the folding, but I’ll give it a shot. Nothing beats jEdit when it comes to folding…

@Thomas: I did say it was only the first day :) . The perspectives can be confusing, but honestly I never leave the Java one, even when doing web apps, with the very infrequent use of the SVN perspective (you don’t need to use it when committing or updating).

@the dooder: I don’t work on a Mac for TextMate, but one of the guys at work is going that route. I have, on occasion, just used jEdit with the appropriate plugins. A very nice tool, and talk about light-weight!

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