During the last four weeks, I've been to a few conferences. Sick of wearing the same t-shirts and jeans, I've been experimenting with different outfits. By far the most successful t-shirt (yes, I know, I said I was sick of wearing t-shirts) was a new one I designed for the Develo … | Continue reading

A few glasses of fizzy were consumed during the JetBrains party at Devoxx Belgium last year: Holly: You do presentations about productivity, and about developer happiness, and I do presentations about developer joy. We should do a presentation together! Me: Yes! What a fantastic … | Continue reading

I freaking HATE flaky tests. The first time I worked in an environment that had real Continuous Integration with Actual Automated Tests that Actually Ran, it was like... freedom. We literally got the green light that our new code was working as expected, and that any changes we m … | Continue reading

This is a post I've been meaning to write for eight and a half years. Inspired by this tweet from Ceora, I'm finally doing it. I have a question for parents in tech, especially moms. How has having children impacted your career? I wanna hear the good, the bad and the ugly. Tell m … | Continue reading

I'm about to jet off on my sunny* summer holidays, so it's a good time to leave you with my recommended reading and learning. Are they all my books and content? Yes. But I do have discounts and deals for them, so that's something, right? Working With Code in IntelliJ IDEA (Online … | Continue reading

These days, distributed version control systems like Git have "won the war" of version control. One of the arguments I used to hear when DVCSs were gaining traction was around how easy it is to branch and merge with a VCS like Git. However, I'm a big fan of Trunk-Based Developmen … | Continue reading

One of the things you have to do as a self published author is marketing. I mean, obviously you have to do EVERYTHING as a self published author, that's the thing. I've just finished creating a landing page for Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA. It's one of those things that should b … | Continue reading

My last post was about the history of writing Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA. Which was mostly for my own gratification, to help me realise just how much time and energy went into it. What people mostly ask me about, though, is the tools we used to write the book and the process w … | Continue reading

I believe in asking for help, for being vulnerable about the things we don't know, especially if we've been in industry a long time. We can't possibly know it all, and it's important to normalise that. So I wrote a blog post about the thing I was struggling with. Yes, it also had … | Continue reading

I've been playing with NIO for network stuff to see if/how I want to update the code for Head First Java 3rd Edition. The original code used Sockets and Readers/Writers, and I thought there must be a more "modern" way to do this so I've tried updating it a few different ways. I g … | Continue reading

I'm inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be "I disagree with some aspects of what someone on the internet said, even though they have an entirely valid point of view". But that's less catchy. I saw a Tweet … | Continue reading

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Dalia and I (and a number of others!) had a conversation on our first Twitter Spaces session about "Comments: Good or Bad?". I argued for minimising the comments we have in our code, and in this blog post I want to explore how to do this in more detail. I think this is one of … C … | Continue reading

I've been migrating all my JavaFX applications to Java 15 / JavaFX 15.0.1 to see if there are any pain points or gotchas to be aware of. I particularly wanted to understand how Maven and Gradle handle JavaFX, and how to successfully build and run the applications in IntelliJ IDEA … | Continue reading