Finding new love in Intellij

Recently Idea has released a community edition of its intellij browser. I had heard so much about it that I decided to give it a shot. The editor is pretty sleek, not shiny like eclipse. In fact the editor looks almost like a notepad window. Good thing is I am liking it, it keeps u closer to ur code without showing too many jazzy stuff, letting me write cleaner code.

Another thing I liked about it the concept of projects and modules in intellij, I think its much better than eclipse's concept of workspace. Again intellij is able to handle multiple modules involving loads of libraries in a much better manner.

The only thing I miss are the shortcuts, even though I am using eclipse key mapping here, but its still not the same. A useful plugin for intellij is key promoter which prompts u to use keyboard shortcuts over mouse. I am using intellij as full time IDE and hope will stick with it.

Here I go again!!

Again I have got my blogging josh back, and this time I seriously hope it lasts for more than 1 blog post. Last few months have been seriously hectic, good thing is I learnt a lot technically. I am actually working on an iPhone application and though it was all fun in the begining its all about meeting deadlines now. There is so much I want to learn but I am still not sure if IT is the field I want to stick in. The only reason is that it doesn't pay me well and I am just so far behind from the rest of my batch. I just hope s.th better happens so that I can continue to do what I love to do and what I think I can do best.

Anyways currently besides iPhone app I am reading data structures and algorithms. At this point in my career I am able to better understand them. Going through each of these makes u understand the machine better and I think makes u a better programmer. Also as the book is written in C I am able to write almost beginner's code in the language I have always wanted to learn. Besides this python, GWT, cloud computing are on my list now. OSGi is something I was reading few months back but left it midway. Really bad thing about me is I am never able to finish things, I just leave them midway, just hope same doesn't happen to what I am doing rite now.

So long for now.. I wish I'll be able to post some blogs on what I have understood about various things I am reading