On Boosting My IDE(A) – Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA is fast again

Performance Problems
After struggling for some time with the performance problems with recent IDEA versions on my clients workstations, I’ve finally found a solution. After upgrading from version five the performance of IDEA began to degrade.
I had many hangs and a general sluggish feel.
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On Finding The Anykey

Finally I’ve found it: The mysterious “Anykey” is living under the strange name of “QuickFix” in your IDE of choice.

Pressing Alt+Enter (Cmd+Enter) in Intellij IDEA or Ctrl+1 in Eclipse enables you to program on a “per example” basis. You can do
introduction of variables, fields, classes,
renaming
changing method signatures
completing structure
surrounding code with live template
importing dependencies
and much [...]

On LEGO Powered Time-Tracking; My Daily Column

I’ve had troubles with time tracking my worktime for all the years. I always found this to be a tedious burden and inconvenience. So one morning in my blue hour (reading in a cafe before work) I spent the time pondering the alternatives.
I started listing software and realworld solutions to timetracking that are possible and [...]

On “The Productive Programmer” by Neal Ford

I’ve been reading Neal’s blog for a while. So I’ve been looking forward to the book. (I even accidentally ordered it twice – one was the pre-buy at amazon, which I forgot about).
I spend the last two days reading the book and found it quite helpful. There are a lot of concrete tips and [...]

On Queuing, Security, Routing and Traveling after QCon 2008 London

Sitting a mere 200 km from home, 7 hours late by now and hopefully there at dawn, I’ll try to recapture the events of this day.
After the last day of the exciting QCon week ended on Friday, I used the time on Saturday morning to buy some family gifts in Covent Garden. Taking the Gatwick [...]

On Toys @ QCon London 2008

Its very funny how many guys are interested in your laptop if its a MacBook Air. I actually spotted only one other at the SpringSource Booth. At Monday I got awarded the Canadian maple leaf tag by Kirk Pepperdine, who forced me during the next days on several occassions to show off :)
The benefit was [...]

On RESTful programming @ QCon London 2008

As the Haskell session with Lennart Augustsson was unfortunately canceled, Mathias and I decided to attend the Architectural Implications of RESTful design talk by Peter Rodgers of 1060research. It was very insightful.
The basic principles of the talk were:
1) all resources are named by an URI
2) resources are immutable and copied
3) you can construct arbitrary URI [...]

On Agile Mashups @ QCon 2008

So I attended another agile session on the mashup of agile methodologies. Unfortunately it turned out to be just a basic introduction of the different agile practices. The real mashup of practices regardless of the borders of the methodologies I expected was not presented by Rachel. I.e. something like Kents XP graphs depicting which practices [...]