Marcin Floryan

I can still hear J.B. audaciously whispering “Shift+F10“whenever I would reach for the mouse to run a suite of tests in IntelliJ. Although we worked together a while ago the sound of his voice still reverberates in my head and has since prompted me to make a step improvement in the use of keyboard short-cuts in the IDEs. I [...]

I have been doing quite a bit of grails development recently and used IntelliJ IDEA IDE. In many respects it is a very good environment (as good as IDEs can be), for me more friendly and usable than NetBeans or Eclipse. One of the features I really like is the clipboard stacking which allows you [...]

Three months ago we got a small gadget from our energy provider – a smart meter. I didn’t think of it much, but we’ve got it up and running and located it on the kitchen worktop right on top of  the coffee maker. The coffee maker is broken anyway but it serves as a good [...]

By the time my own copy of “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know“, edited by Kevlin Henney, arrived I have already seen a few copies around and heard a few people’s opinions. I was quite keen to reflect on some of the wisdom shared by the contributors so I picked it up for the summer [...]

Ever since I started writing windows applications, even though most of them were not in C or C++, almost every time I would refer back to Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows. Whether it was Visual Basic, Delphi, .NET or even Java, there would eventually come a point, where the only way to achieve something would be [...]