on Aug 4, 2008 in
development,
fun 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 more …
and much more just by pressing the “AnyKey” at any offending piece of code. Especially the ton (600+) of intentions of IDEA fixes almost each possible syntax problem using a single key.
Kent Beck used the AnyKey (QuickFix) when describing the Refactoring By Example.
You can find further keystroke reference cards in the help menus of your IDE.
DZone made up a nice collection of refcardz:
IntelliJ IDEA DZone Refcard
NetBeans 6.1 Refcard
Tags: IDE productivity intention
on Aug 1, 2008 in
development,
fun,
lego 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 Jul 28, 2008 in
code,
development 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 Mar 16, 2008 in
conference,
fail,
traveling 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 Mar 13, 2008 in
conference,
fun 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 Mar 13, 2008 in
code,
conference 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 Mar 13, 2008 in
agile,
conference 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 [...]
