Stephen Friedrich

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    No progress on Jira troubles?

    There had been a big quarrel when Jira was introduced.Someone from Atlassian promised help, but little seems to have happened.After I have been using Jira for a while, here is what get's on my nerv...
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    @SuppressWarnings() names

    I really think the names used as arguments in the annotation should be more carefully choosen to apply to Idea inspections only.Most importantly @SuppressWarnings("ALL") might be dangerous as there...
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    Exception for "direct access to non-public field"?

    I sometimes use private inner classes whose fields I do not encapsulate at all, e.g. private static class Levels { private int level; private int fieldLevel; private int met...
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    Nice next build

    Just looked over fixes so far: Boy, you did really wet my appetite. Some long-standing issues are fixed.exit confirmationgo to file: find files with unregistered extensionsFormatting fixed Brac...
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    properties nightmare

    Build 3353 always loads properties files as ascii encoding.Destroys all my non-ascii characters on save.Just had some fun reverting changes from CVS - yeah, I know it's my fault using an EAP versio...
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    Tooltips on tree nodes and editor tabs

    The project/package tree currently has no tooltips at all and the tooltips on editor tabs have little value.How about - adding tooltips to the tree also?- explaining all those icon decorations in t...
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    New quickfix "Assign parameter to field"?

    I frequently invoke the quickfix "Create field for parameter 'foo'" when the field already exists. Idea detects this only later on, and asks "Use existing field '_foo'?" While this is nice, it is t...
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    Hidden features

    Maybe you already knew these. But maybe you know other hidden gems?Some are really useful. Some are a little obscure:- you can remove an entry from the list of recent files by pressing DEL- you can...
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    Irida will ship without Subversion support

    at least if Irida should ship this century and development continues at the same pace.Seriously: I have more and more problems arguing for our use of Idea with my boss nagging me about Eclipse's su...
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    Inspection settings not stored

    I get "redundant local variable" often, because our code style requires returning a variable rather than an expression to foster debugging.I can suppress these warnings by invoking the "edit settin...
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