Thanks to this you’re able to commit always “refering to” some specific task. Using GitHub and Kanbanery such commits are linked back to the task on the board, which makes code reviews very pleasant :-)

As we’re using Kanbanery in our team, I’ll hopefully have some time and ideas to make this plugin even more useful over time :-) So in case you’re interested just download the plugin from your IntelliJ or head to github to look at the source code or vote for this plugin on it’s site.

Oh… Seems like I forgot to announce that I’ve also released a Android client for Kanbanery :-) Yup, that’s true, so got ahead and check it out if you’d like to. This one still needs some polishing, but the idea is to keep it in one codebase but develop for both, tablets and normal phones, so some things are a little bit tricky :-) I love to use it on my XOOM, but I’ll work hard to make the phone versions as awesome as the tablet one.

So… Since I’ve started using git-svn at work, I do have an possibility to make things better now! The answer lies in client-side-hooks and git aliases (“custom commands”). First let’s write this as an simple bash script, that we’ll locate in the .git/hooks/ folder:
It’s a fairly simple script, so I wont bore you explaining it in detail – if in doubt, feel free to ask. We only need to place this script as “.git/hooks/pre-commit” and make it executable and git will take care of the rest for us. Oh and in case you’re wondering where that org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs came from. It’s created by eclipse into the .settings folder when you check some option to “use formatter per project” – that’s the only time I had to fire up and click around in eclipse to get it’s formatter running “headless”. Ok, let’s check if it works…

Yup, you can agree or not with the formatting rules – but what matters is that the whole team decided on it and that we keep it consistent throughout the whole project. This hook will definitely help with this. :-) Step two for me was changing this into a git command, so that I wouldn’t launch eclipse each time I just do some quick local commiting. The solution is to drop the hook idea (although it’s quite nice) and create an custom git command. We do this by doing an alias like that:

git config --global alias.eclipse-formatter '!~/git-hook-eclipse-formatter'

The !command alias support is with us in git since 1.5.0 and it enables us to launch any program/script as an git command. Great, just what I wanted! Let’s now see what this command really did:

As you can see, adding an alias is as simple as adding it to your ~/.gitconfig or, if you want to setup the alias “per project”, to .git/config – pretty cool, ay? Also, this command will be included in bash-autocompletition suggestions! :-)

That’s it for today… happy hacking!

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

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!