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Git and IntelliJ for impatient and not-very-happy developers

June 19th, 2012

If you want to be a good developer, you should try IntelliJ and switch to Git.

Having played with Spring Tools Suite, an Eclipse based IDE for more than six weeks. How do I feel? I hate it. Buggy and inconsistent. Unexpected behaviour should easily waste a few hours to figure out and workaround. Eclipse is no better. A fat blow-ware, confliction between different plugins …

IntelliJ has a lot goodies, bit by bit, piece by piece. Saving a few keystroke are not big deal to carry one task, but to do it thousand times, even one keystroke less can save your life.

+Dean Budd Deano has barracked for IntelliJ long time ago. You have to really try it by yourself, feel it by yourself, understand it by yourself, then convince you how good it is. IntelliJ will become my major development platform for JEE and Grails project.

Git, how many time I have to remind you how quick and lighting fast it is?

Setting up a new Git repository on my MacBook Pro tonight, 15MB big source codes initialised, pulled, pushed out and into repository. Everything just bang, bang, bang. Even Perforce never impress me so much.

95% time you only need run git on command line. The other 5% time I switch to SmartGit on Mac is to have a look graphic branch history.

Don’t be a loser. Good tools help and accelerate your work, and leave a smile on your face after job done …
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花钱像拉屎一样简单，赚钱像吃屎一样艰难！

June 16th, 2012

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“无冥冥之志者无昭昭之明、无昏昏之事者无赫赫之功”

June 11th, 2012

- 荀子

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A PC person’s guide to Mac

May 19th, 2012

Bought a lowest entry level Macbook Pro 13″ i5 refurbished during the week. This is the first ever Apple product I bought. I’m not a fan boy of sleeky, popular iPhone. I keep poo-pooing iPad. But because of the admiration of MBP’s impeccable design and high quality, moreover as a tribute to Steve Jobs, I join the cohort of yuppies, with a silver MPB on my laptop.

However, as a typical PC person living a life of hacker. There should no boundary, no limitation, no rules can’t be broken. In order to maximise all the potentials inside this piece of hardware, and get my investment back, I also ordered 16GB DDR3 RAM, 240GB SATA3 SSD this week from two computer parts shops, at the best price I can find on the market. After some tweak work to get rid of the bottleneck in the overall performance, finally this baby is muscled up.

Refurbished MBP, $1189.00 paid on credit card with free shipping. 16GB Patriot DDR3 RAM for Mac, $150 on cash. Corsair Force SATA3 240GB SSD, $295 on cash. The happiness and achievement to get something done after a long time planning, researching, waiting, torture and agony, priceless. There is something money can’t buy. For everything else, there is a Mastercard. And you have to work harder to earn your dole and make this happen.

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In the past five, the People’s Bank of China’s total assets increased by 119%,…

April 23rd, 2012

In the past five, the People’s Bank of China’s total assets increased by 119%, and 2011 end of reach $4.5 trillion. The U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank asset size at the end of 2011 were $3.0 trilion and $3.5 trillion.

Who is the world’s central banks? Answer this question before 2010, the Fed deserved; In 2010, some people questioned this judgment.

“The global liquidity provider has turned to China’s central bank, is not the impression the Fed or the European Central Bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, or a global central bank governors.“ Standard Chartered Bank in its recent report, made the remarks.

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China hints at new monetary easing
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — China could be readying changes to pump up bank lending, with a state-media report late Wednesday indicating a possible cut to banks’ required reserves, and with some…

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“心正而后身修，身修而后家齐，家齐而后国治，国治而后天下平。” – 《礼记 • 大学》

April 15th, 2012

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The End of Newspaper? Welcome Newsdigit!

March 27th, 2012

Since start of year 2012, I have subscribed digital edition of TheAge and The Australian. Currently, I’m on two months trail of Herald “Horny” Sun, which I reckon it’s a total rubbish, although it’s thoroughly absorbing, not a bad substitution for toilet paper and, it’s entertaining.

I still like traditional newspaper, easily to read and digest, tons of information in a large size A0 paper. However, time is changing. More and more people looking for information online, accelerating the disappearing of the newspaper. The cost saving and environment friendly by sending digital pulse via electricity wire change everyone’s life dramatically and forever.

Is it good old time no more? Or someone needs to shout out: “Shut up whinging loser”?

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Gold Won’t Protect You from Inflation

March 22nd, 2012

Gold has it investment value only when inflation has been more than interest rates on U.S. Treasuries.

A better way to secure your future against inflation is to invest in what Buffett prefers – “productive assets.” – Businesses that can hold pricing power and have brand loyalty, have the ability to raise prices right along with input costs.