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04 Nov

Module Settings are Moving in IntelliJ IDEA 8

Shortly before the soon coming final release of IDEA8, a completely new settings dialog started to appear on the EAP versions. With it, I found myself totally lost, because I was used to navigating directly into my module settings by hitting Ctrl-Alt-S + 1.
Actually, it took me a while to discover where the module settings [...]

16 Sep

Are You Using IntelliJ IDEA Flex Support?

Or am I one of the few people on the planet, who punishes myself with this half-baked support for flex that IntelliJ IDEA has, instead of just jumping the dreaded FlexBuilder ship, before I sink myself?
Okay, that was a bit harsh, it just seems to me, that there isn’t a day, without a new issue [...]

20 May

Making IntelliJ IDEA Run Faster and Better

I took the time to listen to the, about one hour long, IntelliJ IDEA Architecture and Performance video, by Dmitry Jemerov from Jetbrains. Most of the beginning of the video was not very intesting for me, but 37 minutes into the video, the good stuff comes Here is a little extract, of some main [...]

19 May

IntelliJ IDEA 8 Will Kill the EncodingPlugin

…which is a good thing.
I just read the post New Approach to Encoding in IntelliJ IDEA, which outlines new features in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA version 8 with respect to file encoding. It has long time been a problem, that IDEA only had an IDE-level setting for encoding of files. It was this problem, that [...]

29 Feb

Kudos To JetBrains and Open Source

It is absolutely great, that JetBrains has open sourced a great deal of their plugins!
Today, I installed the latest and greatest Selena EAP (early access) version of IntelliJ IDEA, to get some of the latest flex plugin features. Sadly, my ruby plugin then got turned off, as it was not built for the latest IDEA [...]

10 Jan

Using IDEA Quicklists Instead Of Keybindings to Everything

I just did a new installation on a completely new box, and had to configure IDEA from bottom up. On of the things I needed, was to add some keybindings for some features I use all the time. But in the process, I saw something new (to me)–quicklists. In Settings, General chose Keymap. You will [...]

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