Maven update remote indexes broken in IntelliJ10

I was trying to use Maven with IntelliJ10, but I could not update the indexes of the Maven Central Repository. After wasting a couple of hours, I found out that it was a know bug, IDEA-63043 Maven update remote indexes broken. Why do I keep running into all sorts of problems when using IntelliJ ? I love the interface and all the features it offers, but I wish I could use them at their full potential without having to look for bug reports.

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 is out. The list of improvements is here. Things I'm going to have a look at are the database access improvements and the UML-like diff tool. Well unless that annoying bug is still there... After some research, that bug was already reported as bug IDEA-23472.

I tried the database console, using a locale PostgreSQL database.

I wonder if we can copy/paste the result of the SQL query, including the column names.

IDE under Ubuntu

I had Ubuntu 9.4 for a while on my laptop, but I was not using it much. I can't tell why. Recently, after spending some time trying to remember which password I was using, I decided to go back to it. I upgraded to 9.10, installed Compix Fusion and Awn, and start playing with all sorts of configurations. Compix is crazy ! If you decide to install Ubuntu, you have to try it. Ubuntu is a lot of fun, and it's fast ! Booting is fast, launching applications is fast. I can't come back to Windows without getting frustrated by the time I have to wait until I can launch an application.

Until now, I was using both IntelliJ and Eclipse on Windows. The first thing I did was to install both on Ubuntu. After setting a few environment variables, I started IntelliJ. It worked. It worked very well. I made a new Griffon project, and started some coding. I like IntellJ's Griffon view, with the Model, View and Controller folders. It was fun... until the focus cursor went wild. No more focus. No matter where I clicked, the window was not responding to the keyboard anymore. After restarting IntelliJ, everything was back to normal. But then the focus cursor went wild again. I searched the web for similar problems, and it seems that many people have this problem on Ubuntu. After wasting some time trying some of the suggestions I read, I gave up, and turned back to Eclipse.

Eclipse Gallileo works like a charm. CTRL+Space was already mapped to the Input Method Editor(IME), so I just had to change the IME settings and remove CTRL+Space from the hook list. Apart from that, I haven't encountered any particular inconvenience yet.