Organization For Eclipse Developers

Being able to quickly navigate around the IDE with hot-keys has been a useful piece of functionality, and keeping things organized around the developer can help him or her be even more effective. There are plenty of reasons to use an IDE for development, whether it is discussed the use of hot-keys in Eclipse. He listed ten that he has found useful, based on his software development experience: Moving around Ctrl+J - Incremental Search Ctrl+Shift+T - Search a type, with search on typing. You can use only the upcase letters (e.g. type "MIL" to find MouseInputListener) Ctrl+F6 - Switch between last used files F3 - Open declaration Ctrl+Alt+H - Open Call Hierarchy Editing Ctrl+1 - Quick Fix: press while cursor is positioned at member variable, parameter, selection, warnings, errors, Ctrl+Space - Context Assist: press after a ., or to use macros (for, while, sysout, ). Press in class-scope to automatically create method declarations. Ctrl+Shift+O - Organize Imports Ctrl+Shift+F - Reformat source Alt+Shift+T - Show Refactor Quick Menu An organized life should help one accomplish their daily tasks. If one's environment in real life (you know, high blue ceiling, brightly lit, etc) is organized, it makes keeping track of everything else an easier prospect. Lifehacker's Gina Trapani Google Desktop Quicksilver Gmail Your cell phone A filing cabinet An inbox and "next actions" tray "I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." -- Sherlock Holmes on organization, The Five Orange Pips Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.