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How Well Do You Know Your IDE?

This is bit like a philosophical post. Just some thoughts regarding our perception of developer tooling.  First - a question. Which IDE do you use?...

11 replies - 12219 views - 11/10/12 by Anton Arhipov in Articles

Top 20 Refactoring Features in IntelliJ IDEA

Following up on the previous article where we highlighted the top 20 features of Code Completion, I’d like to talk about the top Refactoring features that...

0 replies - 14013 views - 10/29/12 by Andrey Cheptsov in Articles

JavaOne 2012: Getting Started with the NetBeans Platform

I stayed in the Hilton (Continental Ballroom 7/8/9) to see Geertjan Wielenga's (Oracle Development Tools Principal Project Manager) presentation...

0 replies - 1695 views - 10/21/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Giving up on Eclipse Juno

In my last blog I posted about my Eclipse 4.2 Juno setup; as much as a reference for me in case I needed to do a reinstall as anything else. What I didn’t...

6 replies - 6857 views - 10/15/12 by Dan Haywood in Articles

NetBeans 7.3 Beta is More Than Easel: Hints and FXML Code Completion

NetBeans 7.3, which is now available in Beta, is already probably best known for its Project Easel features. However, in this post I look at some new...

0 replies - 1641 views - 10/15/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Learn Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts Easily

Disclaimer: Some users experienced this plugin to break their Eclipse Juno (see comments). Use at own risk!Using keyboard shortcuts can vastly increase your...

4 replies - 6296 views - 10/11/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles

Towards Better Refactoring Support in IDEs for Functional Programming

A couple of days back I was thinking how we could improve the state of IDEs and let them give rich feedbacks to users focusing on code...

0 replies - 1582 views - 10/11/12 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles

JavaOne 2012: Custom Static Code Analysis [NetBeans]

I returned to the Hilton (Continental Ballroom 4) to attend Jan Lahoda's (Oracle/NetBeans) Birds-of-a-Feather presentation "Custom Static Code...

0 replies - 3605 views - 10/03/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Eclipse Juno JEE Setup

My installation of Eclipse Juno seemed to have got its knickers in rather a twist, so just spent a “happy” hour reinstalling the damn thing. Anyway,...

1 replies - 5949 views - 09/30/12 by Dan Haywood in Articles

Top 20 Features of Code Completion in IntelliJ IDEA

In this article I would like to highlight the top features of code completion in IntelliJ IDEA, which make coding for Java incredibly productive. Everyone...

0 replies - 20783 views - 09/18/12 by Andrey Cheptsov in Articles

Removing Blank Lines in Eclipse

Many times I end up using source files from somebody else. And such files might have a lot of empty lines in it I want to get removed. The question is: how...

1 replies - 6080 views - 09/06/12 by Erich Styger in Articles

NetBeans 7.2: Generating (Introduce) Local Extensions

I have already blogged on two refactoring options NetBeans 7.2 provides in my aptly named posts NetBeans 7.2: Refactoring Parameterized Constructor As...

0 replies - 2800 views - 09/04/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Organize Imports in Eclipse

Today I learned a neat trick to organize imports in Eclipse. Of course, one can use Ctrl + Shift + O to remove the unused imports at file level. But what...

1 replies - 5264 views - 08/27/12 by Veera Sundar in Articles

NetBeans 7.2: Refactoring Parameterized Constructor As Builder

Shortly after the Second Edition of Josh Bloch's Effective Java was released, I borrowed a colleague's copy to browse it and consider purchasing a...

0 replies - 4258 views - 08/13/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Show Workspace Location in the Title Bar

A central concept of the Eclipse framework is the concept of a workspace. The workspace holds project and project references, among with other settings....

0 replies - 5268 views - 08/11/12 by Erich Styger in Articles