Jetbrains releases Fleet: a next generation IDE

JetBrains is releasing a next generation product for its flagship IDE line: Fleet.

Clearly inspired on the success of more editor-like IDE's like VScode, Fleet is a distributed developer environment where the editor can run separately from an IDE engine, which can optionally run remote.

The product has currently entered preview mode.

Having a full featured educational license, the proposed licensing seems a bit disappointing: it is largely based on the number of authors in a private project. The license limits private git projects to 4-5 committers, while our student group projects run with up to 4-5 persons. They cannot share these projects with other groups, so they need to be private.

Adobe buys Figma

Adobe, market leader for in graphical design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Dreamweaver...) has bought Figma, the new digital creative designer favourite.

Figma was founded 10 years ago and has a strong collaborative creative cloud based platform. It has a recurring revenu of $400 million a year and is valued at $10 billion. $10 billion is exactly what Adobe is paying in cash, but it adds another $10 billion in shares; 

It is Adobe's biggest acquisition to date, and a heft price to take out a competitor.

Spring links (updated)

• Spring history (2002-2017)
• IntelliJ (Ultimate Edition) support 
• Properties
• Retrieval order
• Common application.properties entries
• Spring Boot @Profile 's practical examples
• Spring Data Release Trains
• Thymeleaf
• expressions
• in web pages

Jakarta persistence 3.1 highlights

• autocloseable EntityManager and EntityManagerFactory
• Criteria CASE expression support Expressions as conditions
• JPQL (and criteria API)
  
• CEILING, EXP, FLOOR, LN, POWER, ROUND, SIGN
• LOCAL DATE/TIME/DATETIME

You can find the specification here.

vrt.nu app abroad: enable push messages

vrt.nu is the mobile app to watch flemish state television programs.

If you want to use the vrt.nu app abroad you have to prove you are a Belgian citizen.

There are several ways to do so (e.g. itsme), but none of these work if you have disabled custom push messages in the settings. So make sure you have enabled

• Pushberichten
• Ontvang meldingen op maat

There are no error messages pointing here (you just get a message that the program is not available abroad) and this is not in the documentation.

Android Basics Course using Jetpack compose

Google started revamping its android basics course using Jetpack Compose.
First units available now!