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

So long!!

I have always wanted to blog, not because I want some one to read it, but just because there are so many things I want to get out of my head. So rather than blabbering some random thoughts in air and making yourself look like a total fool I think its better to put your thoughts into words. 

Wonder how long it has been since I last wrote, guess more than an year. Every time I make these pledges of being regular and everytime I end up breaking them only to take new ones. Any ways one of the major roadblocks in my blogging campaign has always been my inability to sit for long and type in front of my pc. Since I have recently got a laptop from office, that excuse has been taken off me and I think I can be a little honest with myself and can start putting some thoughts onto paper.

Again I am hoping against hope that this time I'll be regular.