A collection of TILs heavily inspired from jbranchaud.
In IntelliJ, while debugging a Java application you can set breakpoints on constructors to track creation of objects. However, what would you do if the class doesn't declare any constructors (has only the implicit default constructor)? Just set a line breakpoint on the class declaration line public class MyClass { and it will be hit whenever an instance of this class is created.
If you are looking to convert a Maven style dependency into Gradle style for use in your build.gradle, look no further. All you have to do copy something that looks like the below.
<dependency>
<groupId>net.logstash.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logstash-logback-encoder</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
</dependency>When you past it inside the dependencies block of your build.gradle, it gets automatically converted to the below format by intelligent IntelliJ.
compile 'net.logstash.logback:logstash-logback-encoder:4.11'
I discovered this one by accident. Simply open Bash and type Alt + digit followed by any character and you'll find the character repeated digit times on your prompt.
More about this at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/562115/press-alt-numeric-in-bash-and-you-get-arg-numeric-what-is-that
This can be invaluable if you are trying to express the width of an element as a multiple of the character width.
The best part is that ch understands the changes in character width arising due to different font styles, sizes etc.
Example:
.panel {
font-style: Consolas, monospace;
font-size: 12px;
}
.drawer {
width: 10ch;
}<div class="panel">
<p>1234567890</p>
<div class="drawer"></div>
</div>The above will render both the p and the div.drawer elements at equal widths (provided the margins and paddings are set accordingly, of course).
What's more, the browser support for this is remarkably good too.
This is a robust way to handle changes to values of input and textarea elements. Browser support is excellent too.
Example:
$("input.class-name").on("input", function(e) {
console.log("Value: ", $(this).val());
});Before finding out about this, I was using the keyup, keydown and keypress events but each one comes with its own set of limitations. For instance, the keyup and keydown events don't filter out special keys such as Ctrl and Alt. The keypress isn't even a standard event and it gets tricky if you want to grab the value of a field after the key has been pressed.
Extremely handy when you have to execute a Gradle task without connecting to the internet or remote repositories in situations such as when you're in a coffee shop or have no access to the network but have already downloaded all the dependencies.
Simply use the --offline switch in conjunction with your task commands.
Example:
$ gradle clean build --offlineJust keep in mind that it will only work if you have already downloaded all the required dependencies when you had access to the network.