Roy's musings

I am using Scala for one of my recent projects. For logging, I am using SLF4J/LOGback. There is one minor annoyance while you are trying to log two argument messages like: logger.info("Some log with arg1 [{}] and arg2 [{}].", arg1, arg2) While you compile with sbt you will get the following error: [error] both method info in trait Logger of type (x$1: String, x$2: <repeated...>[Object])Unit [error] and  method info in trait Logger of type (x$1: String, x$2: Any, x$3: Any)Unit [error] match argument types (String,String,String)   If you are getting this error, a small trick that I did to avoid casting to AnyRef or Object was to just add a null argument at the end which will force the Scala compiler to make use of the vararg version. LOGBack just ignores extraneous arguments. Like this: logger.info("Some log with arg1 [{}] and arg2 [{}].", arg1, arg2, null) Disclaimer: I am a Scala rookie, hence take my advice with a pinch of salt!  

TLDR; If you are new to IntelliJ (like me), use "Cmd+Shift+A" to find your way around. Recently I started developing an application in Scala. I am an avid Eclipse user, but unfortunately I felt that the support for Scala is a bit clunky as of today. It was driving me nuts to see some of the Java classes highlighted in red as unknown classes, but restarting the Eclipse or refreshing project was removing those errors. Based on my research, I felt that IntelliJ IDEA has better support for Scala. So I wanted to give it a spin. So far I feel so good that I decided to give it a try. I prefer to get things done using keyboard shortcuts, touching the mouse only for absolutely essential needs. The most important keyboard (and in my opinion the most awesome) shortcut that you should know in IntelliJ is "Cmd+Shift+A".  This will show you an input box where you can enter a partial string and you will be presented with the list of action or options that is relevant ...