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JetBrains is offering steep discount of 75% on all their products which include IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and a host of other awesome IDEs.

It is a limited period offer and to be precise its an offer only for 24 hours on 20^th December, 2012. So, what are you waiting for? Head over to their website and NOW!!

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Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

Wikipedia entries for K & R and Steve Jobs

Wikipedia entries for Dennis Ritchie [C and Unix creator], Ken Thompson [Unix creator], Brian Kernighan [worked with K & R during Unix creation] and Stuart Feldman [make creator] put together is just 1/5 or probably 1/10 of the Wikipedia entry for Steve Jobs.

This is definitely nothing against Steve. He is a great visionary.

But, he is a product guy who visualized the product, the actual hard work was done by so many unknown Engineers.

We have come to accept and approve narcissists more than great creators and excellent human beings whose work changed the fate and direction of the world. This is not a good sign for the new generations and needs a change.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

Packages in Sublime Text

If I am not working on Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA, I will be grokking on Sublime Text 2. Its a wonderful text editor and in fact it's more than a text editor. Unlimited trial period, multiple cursors, easy customization, etc are its main USPs.

There are a number of blogposts which explain why / how Sublime Text is good. Two of them are from NetTuts. Follow them and see how simple and easy it is to configure and personalize Sublime as per your requirements:

• Sublime Text 2 Tips and Tricks
• Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2

If you have followed the above articles, you would know that the first thing you do after installing Sublime Text is, install Package Control and its all simple from there to install other packages.

Following is the list of packages I have right now which are very useful for my work.

First install Package Control and then search for the required packages in Package Control for installation, that's all you have to do.

In a future post, I will add my User Settings of Sublime Text.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

IntelliJ IDEA Plugins

In continuation to my other post on IntelliJ IDEA, here are the plugins I am using currently.

Please check back after sometime, I will keep this list up-to-date with all the interesting plugins I come across.

For a complete list of plugins available in IntelliJ IDEA, please check this link. As of today, there are 865 plugins available for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition and 819 for IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.

Performance Tuning of IntelliJ IDEA startup options

IntelliJ IDEA is my favorite IDE for my day-to-day work.

I do moonlight with Eclipse as well from time-to-time, but the sheer speed and power of IntelliJ pulls me back to IDEA every time.

I have found the following tuning parameters to be very useful for fast loading, caching, etc for IDE to function smoothly:

If you are using Windows 64-bit, please add the above config in idea64.exe.vmoptions file and if its 32-bit, please add these tuning parms to idea.exe.vmoptions present in <<IDEA_INSTALLED_LOCATION>>/bin folder.

Also, just in case if you are not aware, on a 64 bit machine, if you want to launch IntelliJ IDEA in 64 bit mode, you need to launch idea64.exe and not idea.exe. For this, ensure you have IDEA_JDK and IDEA_JDK_64 environment variables pointing to your 64 bit Java Installation folder.

Finally, the above IDEA Tuning parameters can also be used for an IntelliJ IDEA installed on a Linux machine as well.

Update on 05th April, 2015: After a fair bit of time here, I have moved on to GitHub hosted Octopress blogs. Please find me on http://P7h.org henceforth for all new updates.