
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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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