зацепки

Иногда привяжется какая-нибудь случайно услышанная бессмысленная хрень. Привяжется, да так, что не отвертеться от нее (привет, Сережа). Но бывает и так, что песня цепляет по-настоящему, правильно. Не только и не столько музыкой, сколько текстом, который так точно перекликается с мыслями, что не понимаешь, как это возможно.

Сейчас это Xavier Naidoo 'Was wir alleine nicht schaffen':

Was wir alleine nicht schaffen
Das schaffen wir dann zusammen
Dazu bruachen wir keinerlei Waffen
Unsere Waffe nennt sich unser Verstand

Und was wir alleine nicht schaffen
Das schaffen wir dann zusammen
Nur wir müssen geduldig sein
Dann dauert es nicht mehr lang

IntelliJ errors navigation

I'm going to provide a brief overview on how it's supposed to work with errors/warnings of the currently open file at IntelliJ IDEA.

Table of contents

• Outline;
• Navigation;

Interactive development in action

I'm in the middle of an interesting experiment - new IntelliJ IDEA functionality is being developed and published as a plugin for already released version. It will be merged later into IntelliJ platform and available since next major version. The cool thing is that it seems that all participant benefit from such an approach:

• active users who install the plugin with new functionality can use it right now, no need to wait for the next IJ release;
• I get immediate feedback from end-users -> allows to ensure that the feature does exactly what they want;
• the feature is being tested by active users -> more stable code will be merged into IntelliJ;

Details:

• feature request - IDEA-67767;
• plugin which provides the functionality - 'Copy' on steroids;
• source code - github;

Xmarks & Chrom - R.I.P

I've been a happy xmarks for quite a long time. It seems that that has just ended because all my chrome bookmarks were dropped and xmarks reported an error all the time:

Their support didn't respond in a week, so, it's a time to say good buy to xmarks. The only problem was how to restore the bookmarks :) Eventually, the solution was to install xmarks plugin for firefox (works fine) and import firefox bookmarks from chrome.

Groovy builders in testing

I discovered groovy builders not so long ago but they have become an important part of my 'test writer' arsenal. Every test which starts being too complicated automatically becomes a candidate for a groovy builders-powered refactoring now.

I'm going to give a quick overview of the builders concept and provide a real-world example of their appliance.

Content

• overview;
• before;
• after;

Swing explorer for java UI analysis

Encountered a cool tool for swing ui analysing - swing explorer. It's non-commercial, that's why it lacks usability features and its appearance is not polished but... it's written by a programmer for programmers.

Table of contents

• UI hierarchy view;
• AWT player;

Free a nerd inside you - all StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty campaign achievements:

Trip to the paradise

Couple of photos from the recent trip

Learning by example: fixing vertical baseline shift problem

This is an online diary sheet where I'm going to describe the trial of sorting out a problem with awt drawing.

Table of contents

• Problem description;


• Step 1: Distill a sample;


• Step 2: Client code analysis;


• Step 3: Standard java library analysis;


• Step 4: Debug native code;


• Step 5: Dead end?;


• Step 6: Happy end;

Exploring the world: Eclipse after IntelliJ

updated on 09.01.2012

I've been an IntelliJ IDEA fan for quite a long time but there are pretty many buddies at the web who are happy with eclipse. Having my knowledge of the basic IntelliJ facilities improved significantly by working at the IntelliJ Core team, I've decided to try using eclipse at home for a while and build own opinion about it.

This post is expected to be expanded as I spend more time with eclipse and collect more information about it.

Table of contents

• editor;
  
  
  
  • - Highlighting braces at the txt files;
  
  
  • - Call action by name;
  
  
  • - Appearance;
  
  
  
  


• maven;
  
  
  
  • + UI for pom.xml
  
  
  • + Adding maven dependencies