Zen points directly to the human heart,
see into your nature and become Buddha.
- Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768)

For those who don’t know about zen coding (where have you been guys?) here’s a little sample:

Instead of writing:
<form class="form-comment" id="comment">
<fieldset>
<input id="myid" name="name" type="" />
<input onclick="hideMe()" type="" />
</fieldset>
</form>

You write

form.form-comment#comment>fieldset>input#myid[name=name]>input[onclick=hideMe()]

and hit [TAB].

To understand zen, you must understand yourself. (yet I also strongly suggest watching this video)

Links:
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/IDEADEV/Maia+EAP – IntelliJ IDEA Early Access Program
http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/ – zen coding website

Yeah! It’s time for another great JUG meeting. I’ll have to go quite far this time, as it’ll be in Poznań and that’s about 7h by train from Cracow… but at the very moment I saw who was going to be there, that is: Geertjan Wielenga (whose blog I’ve been reading for a long long time and also Romuen Strobl’s pal from the Netbeans team) and Tony Epple, I just knew I can’t miss such a 2-day crash course about NetBeans Platform. I’m mostly interested in EE stuff and didn’t really look all so much into SE apps (just the few while I was very fresh to Java) and this’ll be a great opportunity to see the NBP in action and explained by the pr0s!

It would seem that I’m not the only person who’s excited about this JUG Meeting as during only one day, already 42 out of 45 possible attendands got registered! I already got my Hotel booked and tommorow I’ll buy the train tickets. Oh, and one more great thing  this trip. My girlfriend will some with me so after I code some stuff we’ll check out Poznań – some people told ma that it’s a really nice city. :-)

More information can be found here: (in polish) http://www.jug.poznan.pl/2010/01/bezplatne-szkolenie-netbeans-platform/ or here: http://www.jug.poznan.pl/materialy-ze-spotkan/netbeans-platform-training-2010/ (in english)

—EDIT—

Sadly I wasn’t able to go to this meeting since there were no free places left for students from outside Poznan. I guess thats understandable since they are Poznań JUG, so they want to teach Poznań students more than Cracows students ;-) As sad as that has been for me, something even better came out of it! What? Well, just wait a month or two and I’ll let you know JavaGeeks!

Some days ago while surfing their website I noticed that there is an “Classroom License”, that allows any student of an University to use IntelliJ’s full version – but only for the purpose of learning etc, no commercial stuff of course.

After some mailing here and there… Mgr. Szymon Bobek helped me out and got the license for us :-) Now I’m both really proud and happy to know that any student at AGH University of Science and Technology can use IDEA (if they want to), and that I was the little “spark” that started out this chain reaction that ended up being a small yet very pleasing “firework”… :-)

Well then…
Off to my exams and Java coding!