http://tedyoung.blogsome.com It's the People and the Process: Pay attention to the People doing the as well as the Process. If the people don't work well together, no process will help. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:40:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks for the kudos from the IntelliJ IDEA Blog! I enjoy pointing out the little known, but very useful, features that makes IntelliJ IDEA so pleasurable to use (and makes me so much more productive). It’s certainly nice to know that someone besides my dog is reading this blog (no, ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/03/05/thanks-jetbrains/ Another 7.0.3 release candidate (#2) is now available: Selena, build 7744 (IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 Release Candidate 2) is available at http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Selena+EAP Detailed release notes: http://jetbrains.net/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11550&styleName=Html&projectId=10132&Create=Create Looks like mostly new features and fixes for Adobe Flex development, with some other miscellaneous but not earth-shattering fixes. As usual, I’ll download, install and start using it. I ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/03/03/intellij-idea-new-703-eap-release-candidate-2/ Looks like the Structure101 plugin is now an official IntelliJ IDEA “companion”. At first I thought it was just a superset of IDEA’s DSM (dependency structure matrix), but it appears to have many more features than that, including ways to have your continuous build warn you of architectural violations in ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/03/03/intellij-idea-structure101-companion/ I was just reading Per Olesen’s blog entry about Adobe Flex and the fact that it’s closed source and proprietary, and it hit me that the reason I haven’t tried Flex is because the source isn’t available. I remember years ago at eBay when we were using C#/ASP.NET 1.1 for ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/03/01/why-im-not-using-adobe-flex-yet/ The Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) is having another InstallFest in San Mateo, CA (2800 Campus Drive), this Saturday (March 1st) as part of the larger Bay Area InstallFest for Schools. Other areas include San Francisco, Berkeley, and Novato. The goal is to donate 500 computers, with Ubuntu pre-installed, ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/02/27/this-saturday-installfest-in-san-mateo-ca/ When I’m editing a file, I like to know immediately whether I’ve checked it out for editing, or if it’s in read-only mode. Sure, you can look at the at the editor tab and see if there’s a little tiny lock icon on the editor tab (when you’re running ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/02/27/intellij-idea-tip-change-background-color-for-read-only-files/ As I mentioned in my first IntelliJ IDEA Tip post, I’ll be talking about the many plugins that I use — I’m something of a plugin maniac. Hopefully you’ll give them a try and find them as useful as I do. The Describe Key Plugin Written by Vincent Mallet, today’s plugin is ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/02/25/intellij-idea-plugin-of-the-week-describe-key/ IntelliJ IDEA continues to surprise me…the other day I was looking for a class in a package, but I wasn’t sure if the package was task, tasks, or something else, but I knew it started with the letter t. Lo and behold, IDEA’s Goto Class (typically the Ctrl+N shortcut) will ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/02/23/intellij-idea-tip-goto-class-coolness/ Just a quick tip for today: when using version control, there are times when I want to switch to a set of files that are open in another changelist (what IDEA calls a list of files that would be submitted/checked-in at the same time). However, instead of clicking on each ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/02/22/intellij-idea-tip-open-all-files-in-a-changelist/ IntelliJ IDEA 7 (from JetBrains) is my preferred development environment for Java (and Groovy as well). Even though I’ve been using it since it first came out many years ago, I still find features that I hadn’t noticed or different ways of using features that are well-known. There are also ... http://tedyoung.blogsome.com/2008/02/21/intellij-idea-tip-quick-lists/