The Secrets of the Fastest Java Developers on Earth
summary
Practical tour of IntelliJ productivity shows concrete tricks that speed Java work: Ctrl-Shift-Space smart completion, postfix completion and live templates for one‑keystroke boilerplate, multi‑cursor and structural expand selection to extract nested lambdas, and refactorings like introduce parameter/parameter object and convert-to-instance. Demonstrations use the free Community edition and the presenter runs project‑wide inspections (over 500 available, most disabled by default) to find-and-replace patterns across a codebase. Many tweaks are applied and shown working live.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:51Tooling philosophy
- 5:09Code completion tips
- 9:27Postfix and live templates
- 13:25Code generation shortcuts
- 18:00Multi-cursor editing
- 23:30Navigating legacy code
- 27:15Inspections and refactoring
- 34:03Advanced code reading
- 37:20Call hierarchy and navigation
- 42:29Refactoring strategies
- 50:04Conclusion and Q&A
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