IntelliJ Usage?

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Jared Richardson

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Aug 7, 2008, 10:08:14 AM8/7/08
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Just curious... how many of you are using your free one year IntelliJ
license? And what are your impressions?

We're giving away an IntelliJ license each month at our local Agile
User's group (ping me if you'd like to get in touch with the guy who
does that for us) and I'm curious how the other "new users" have taken
to it.

Michael Stern

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Aug 7, 2008, 10:49:38 AM8/7/08
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Jared...

I am a NFJS milwaukee 2007 alum.  I recently started at a new company, and the team had been to NFJS mil 2008 & received the licenses.  The team had been using an older version of IntelliJ, but took the license as an opportunity to upgrade.  They are using all the licenses that were included in the enrollment.

I have been an eclipse user for a while now & started to make the transition to IntelliJ, but fell back to Eclipse (for now).

So, from my personal standpoint, I still find eclipse to be my favorite IDE (by a long shot).  I don't think I gave IntelliJ a very long chance, but I figure a couple weeks should have been enough though.  Even with the Eclipse key bindings, I missed a couple of key features:
  • ctrl-sh-t, ctrl-o combination to get to a specific method in a class as quick as I can type
  • I also missed alt-sh-r for inline refactoring,
  • Eclipse's powerful search (including incremental search)
  • double click of a member variable to highlight usages.  
I am sure there are equivalents in IntelliJ, but I got sick of googling for them.

Mike

Jeff Grigg

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Aug 8, 2008, 10:28:44 PM8/8/08
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I installed it at home but didn't use it much. It's a VERY NICE tool,
but we use Eclipse at work and so do all our clients. Using a rogue
IDE on a project can be a pain. And it's entirely impractical when
pair programming. So I'd have to convince entire teams to switch
over. (And typically we have bigger fish to fry! )-:

Parvinder

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Aug 22, 2008, 10:02:55 AM8/22/08
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Ctrl + 0, in eclipse = ctrl + F12 in intellij

On Aug 7, 10:49 am, "Michael Stern" <mmst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jared...
>
> I am a NFJS milwaukee 2007 alum.  I recently started at a new company, and
> the team had been to NFJS mil 2008 & received the licenses.  The team had
> been using an older version of IntelliJ, but took the license as an
> opportunity to upgrade.  They are using all the licenses that were included
> in the enrollment.
>
> I have been an eclipse user for a while now & started to make the transition
> to IntelliJ, but fell back to Eclipse (for now).
>
> So, from my personal standpoint, I still find eclipse to be my favorite IDE
> (by a long shot).  I don't think I gave IntelliJ a very long chance, but I
> figure a couple weeks should have been enough though.  Even with the Eclipse
> key bindings, I missed a couple of key features:
>
>    - ctrl-sh-t, ctrl-o combination to get to a specific method in a class as
>    quick as I can type
>    - I also missed alt-sh-r for inline refactoring,
>    - Eclipse's powerful search (including incremental search)
>    - double click of a member variable to highlight usages.
>
> I am sure there are equivalents in IntelliJ, but I got sick of googling for
> them.
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jared Richardson <
>
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