In my brief stint with Hive (which resulted in this and this blog), I used IntelliJ IDEA. I was reintroduced to the marvels of IDEs and how easy they make a developer's life. I had used Visual Studio, TurboC and many other language specific IDEs back in my college days. But once I started working exclusively with C and Linux, I was confined to vim, gdb, cgdb and at the most ddd. (Didn't use emacs. But I hear that's cool IDE as well.) I had kinda forgot what comfort it is to work in an IDE. Th...