JetBrains has added powerful improvements to their IDE over the years, but leaves some features disabled in the default configuration. If my colleagues are representative, most users don’t know these features exist. Here, we’re going to look at syntax highlighting. The default schemes only assign colors to a few token…

Use live templates to insert common constructs into your code, such as loops, conditions, various declarations, or print statements. For example, the built-in template called psvm inserts a main method. Here are a few live templates I’ve added for Java. They are available for download here. To import them you…

IntelliJ’s postfix completions were announced in 2014 but remain relatively unknown. Postfix code completion helps reduce backward caret jumps as you write code. You use it as if you’re auto-completing a method name, but with the name of a postfix template. Here are a few postfix completions I’ve added for Java. They are available for download here. Rethrow checked exception as runtime exception

#!/bin/bash set -euxo pipefail # this post is a valid bash script # A live version of this script lives at # https://github.com/motlin/development-setup # common aliases # First a few from the git book that everyone seems to use # https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases git config --global alias.co checkout git config --global alias.br branch git config --global alias.ci commit git config…

Java 8 added Streams. Are competing collections libraries like Eclipse Collections, Trove, Guava, etc. effectively deprecated now? I saw this question on StackOverflow, specifically about Eclipse Collections. Here is my answer. Is there any reason to still use Eclipse Collections? Yes! Streams are a huge step forward, and a welcome…