I consider it a necessity for anyone who calls themselves a professional developer to do likewise. I actually have an annual budget of $1000 for tools (and their upgrades). If it makes YOU happier to use IntelliJ over a free alternative, then you owe it to yourself to pay up the $250 for it. This is a tool that you use for the greater part of 8+ hours a day. Your company not buying a license just isn't a valid excuse. And, if I develop a passion about it, so be it. Every-time I find a tool that I think will make developer's lives easier, I'm going to talk about it. So, I'm not apologetic about proselytizing IntelliJ. That's part of what being a speaker is about. I feel like it is my duty to try to turn people on to things that make their life better. It's hard to drum up passion for an arranged marriage. Like Venkat says, many people using Eclipse are in a bad arranged marriage. But that's really the whole point: like the preponderance of Macs on the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour, the people who use IntelliJ are passionate about it, because it exudes excellence. I'm sure we're going to get grief over the IntelliJ chapter having more cool stuff. We sent out another call, and a few trickled in.
Ted Neward (who edited the Eclipse chapter) and I sent out the same call for Eclipse tips and tricks, and we got none. When I sent out call for contributions from the authors and friends for IntelliJ tips, I got a flood of them, all very cool (and a few that I didn't already know about, like the Key Promoter).
There are actually 2 IDE Tips and Tricks chapters in the anthology. I also edited the No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology chapter on IntelliJ tips and tricks, just out in treeware. In fact, I think that IntelliJ would land in my top five pieces of software of all time list. I've used all the major Java IDE's in anger: NetBeans, JBuilder (I used to be considered a JBuilder expert, but I got over it), Eclipse, and IntelliJ. Venkat quite eloquently gives his reasons for choosing IntelliJ: it simply makes him more productive. IntelliJ debate that came up at the expert panel in that same city. During my No Fluff, Just Stuff talk on The Productive Programmer, I got a comment at the Minneapolis show to "stop showing us IntelliJ shortcuts - we all use Eclipse!" And, Venkat Subramaniam blogged about the whole Eclipse vs.
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