Osmorc, a plugin that enables development of OSGi based applications with IntelliJ IDEA and that is developed by Jan Thomä and me, won a “Honorable Mention” prize in the “IntelliJIDEAL Plugin 2008 contest”. Although working on Osmorc itself and the positive and helpful feedback from its users is already a great motivation, the recognition and [...]
I have published the first release of my third IDEA plugin called Osmorc. Osmorc is a plugin that enables development of OSGI based appllications in IDEA. Currently only some basic elements like Export-Package, Import-Package and Require-Bundle are supported, but those are the necessary building blocks for OSGI applications. Making those concepts work with IDEA’s module [...]
OK, I know nothing about the programming language K. So I won’t criticize K itself. What I want to talk about is the comparison of Java and K. I don’t get it why people always think that if they need fewer lines to write a program in one language than in another that the said [...]
I released my second plugin for IDEA named FileBrowser. As the name suggests it is a plugin that allows browsing of the local hard drives on a computer. The idea for this plugin came into my mind some two months ago when I realized how really inconvenient it is to open files that are located [...]
After 3 months of inactivity — at least concerning this plugiin — I have made a new release of it. While using it whenever I worked with IDEA, I noticed that it behaved a bit unpredictable. The problem was that it always took the currently selected PsiElement as the context for any further action. So [...]