Re: [akka-user] The "all roles" developer with IntelliJ, Java and Maven

2015-06-16 Thread Guido Medina
Nice, you know projects from time to time deprecate things out, depending on how things play out and time surely it will be worth to take a look at new/easier ways to do things, for me it was a hell of a journey because I had to learn Akka in 3 weeks with spoonful of salt and steroids included.

Re: [akka-user] The "all roles" developer with IntelliJ, Java and Maven

2015-06-16 Thread Konrad Malawski
Awesome email, thanks the kudos and for spending the time to write it up, Guido! Allow me to swiftly chime in on one of the touched upon topics :-) I find in particular Maven app assembler an awesome plugin, it gives the developer a way to provide execution scripts to admins, then admins can do

Re: [akka-user] The "all roles" developer with IntelliJ, Java and Maven

2015-06-16 Thread Guido Medina
I heard Maven next gen is coming with Gradle like? *-old Play conf style-* where you can mix and match XML with free style POM definition, I haven't got the opportunity to work with very big teams where each sub-project is a piece of something and eventually everything becomes a nightmare so for

Re: [akka-user] The "all roles" developer with IntelliJ, Java and Maven

2015-06-16 Thread Brian Topping
Congrats Guido, sounds like you've done a great job. When the customer is happy... :-) So that you know, there are a few of us using Scala with Maven. As someone who once suffered through Ant, I prefer the encapsulation of functional/procedural code in plugins. As you may know, the SBT plugin f

[akka-user] The "all roles" developer with IntelliJ, Java and Maven

2015-06-16 Thread Guido Medina
Hi, This is not exactly a question, more like a discussion and sharing some of my experiences lately, most of it for medium+ size companies might not make much sense but for overloaded small teams with one or two developers doing everything, here is my *-as short as I can describe it-* story: