IntelliJ 8 milestone 1 rocks!

IntelliJ 8 milestone 1, a.k.a. Diana rocks! For the non-IntelliJ users of this world, 8m1 was released in the last week.
IntelliJ 7 annoyed me. It was slow and bloated. Some stuff was added in without enough thought. The facets feature, which I was unable to turn off irritated me so much I logged a bug about it. It sort of felt like the philosophy of Idea had been abandoned.
When you start 8 it asks you what features you want. You are warned that they come at a cost. There are more features than 7. You can always turn them on later, presumably by adding the plugin. The first example is RCSs. I just added svn, as that is all I am using these days. You then go through a series of screens
So, I added what I need and voila! – all of the 7 sluggishness has gone.
I have now changed to 8 full time.

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By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.