“Ideas don’t spring fully formed from the mind of an individual. Ideas emerge between people.” Avdi Grimm, in his closing keynote at Southeast Ruby, told how when he sets out to write a talk, he wants to go out on his deck and walk back and forth until he squeezes the ideas out of his … Read moreAn old idea in a new context is new.
The new version of IntelliJ IDEA is out, and I’m liking it. Gradle integration: creating a new project from a build.gradle was smooth and easy. Then when dependencies were added to the gradle file, the gradle plugin came in handy. One line added to build.gradle apply plugin: ‘idea’ and then one execution of gradle idea … Read moreIntelliJ IDEA 11
And there was pain… I imported an existing Android project into IntelliJ Idea Community Edition 10.5.1. Some things started complaining “Please select Android SDK.” The help pages are out of date; they say to do this in the Android facet settings. It isn’t there. Here is the secret do-things-right button: Module settings (ctrl-alt-shift-S), then pick … Read moreSetting up an Android project in IntelliJ Idea