JetBrains wins IT Table Tennis Cup 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia, for 2nd year in a row!

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Maria Sokolova

You can probably tell that we at JetBrains love table tennis. Many of us enjoy taking a break and hitting a few balls over the net in the special room we have in the office.

IT Table Tennis Cup became the successor of the traditional JUG.ru TT Cup, which ran in the professional IT community of St. Petersburg from 2007 to 2010. After a two year break, the tradition was revived in 2012 by Game|Changers, an innovative program for ad-hoc education and IT business research, also based in St. Petersburg. A total of ten local IT companies contested the Cup this year.

We’re happy to congratulate our team that just won the gold medal in this tournament. A total of ten IT companies contested the cup with JetBrains coming in first place two years in a row. This year  EMC² came in a close second and i-Free took home third place. JetBrains was represented by Nikita Raba (ReSharper team), Ekaterina Shevchenko (Chief accountant), Alexey Kudryavtsev (IntelliJ IDEA team) and Ilya Yatsishin (MPS team) — from left to right on the team photo:

Whether by chance or by design, the IT Table Tennis Cup coincided with the Liebherr 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, dominated by the Chinese superstars Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Ma Long and Xu Xin.

Way to go, team JetBrains!

Compete with pleasure!
~JetBrains fans

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Meet WebStorm at O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference 2013

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Robert Demmer

May 28th – 30th, join Dmitry Jemerov and John Lindquist for the second annual O’Reilly Fluent Conference in San Francisco, California.

This year, Fluent 2013 will expand its reach into Web browser technologies while retaining JavaScript and HTML5 at its core.

At our booth, Dmitry and John will demonstrate the current features of WebStorm 6 and will be ready to answer your questions. Additionally, the team is working hard to have WebStorm 7 EAP ready in time for Fluent. We invite you to come by and discuss the release roadmap and share with us the features that you would like to see in WebStorm 7.

About Fluent 2013?

Attracting more than 900 attendees from top companies in its first year, Fluent confirmed the strong interest in a new event dedicated to JavaScript, HTML5 and related technologies where people could network and learn. The conference is intended for individuals and organizations who work with JavaScript and related technologies, including HTML, CSS, node.js, Backbone, jQuery, Ember, Dojo, CoffeeScript, and many others.

Keep up with the latest WebStorm news on WebStorm Blog and Twitter @WebStormIDE.

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Free Webinar May 29th: PhpStorm Best Practices – The Perfect Workflow for PHP Developers

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Robert Demmer

Join us Wednesday, May 29th at 17:00 GMT for a free webinar, PhpStorm Best Practices – The Perfect Workflow for PHP Developers with Maarten Balliauw.

PhpStorm LogoIn this webinar, we’ll look at the most important everyday actions in PhpStorm IDE. We’ll learn how to navigate between files, classes or other elements in our project, and see how we can use code autocompletion, PHPDoc, intentions and live templates to make our life as developers easier.

Using automatic inspections and quick fixes, PhpStorm can greatly improve code quality. We’ll get an insight on how to efficiently use version control systems and how we can deploy our projects to remote servers. Join us and learn how to use PhpStorm in the real world!

This webinar is geared towards beginner developers; however, it will be useful for everyone as there will be plenty of tips & tricks to enhance your productivity. Space is limited; please register now. There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the webinar.

Maarten BalliauwMaarten Balliauw is a Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His interests are all web: ASP.NET MVC, PHP and Windows Azure. He’s a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Azure and an ASPInsider. He has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature such as MSDN magazine and PHP architect. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events such as MIX (Las Vegas), TechDays, DPC and others..
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PhpStorm Team to Attend DrupalCon Portland

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Robert Demmer

DrupalCon PortlandJetBrains PhpStorm Team is gearing up for the highly anticipated DrupalCon Portland event set to take place May 20th – 24th.

As the official biannual conference of the Drupal community, DrupalCon Portland has been going strong since 2001 when the project was made open source. This year’s theme, “Building Bridges, Connecting Communities,” will address open standards allowing separate independent systems to communicate with each other and bringing together new users and communities.

At our booth, the team will be happy to show you some videos and demo how PhpStorm can be particularly useful for Drupal users. Be sure to register for our free license raffle and grab one of our awesome shirts or a yoyo!

JetBrains Team at DrupalCon PortlandKeep up with the latest PhpStorm news on their blog and on Twitter @phpstorm.

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IntelliJ IDEA is the base for Android Studio, the new IDE for Android developers

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Eugene Toporov

We are happy to confirm that Android Studio, the new IDE for Android development that Google is developing in cooperation with JetBrains, is based on the IntelliJ Platform and the existing functionality of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

IntelliJ IDEA had support for Android project for years, we have been paying attention to Android developers’ needs. That helped us to get more users with every release.

At JetBrains we’ve always aimed at creating a solid product that provided the best out-of-the-box experience possible. Its tons of productivity enhancements, leading code analysis engine and excellent user interface made IntelliJ IDEA stand out among the competition.

And we always were open for collaboration. We made our IntelliJ platform open source in 2009 and since then a couple of companies have built their development environments on top of it. We are happy to see that our efforts have been recognized by such a respected company as Google.

We worked tightly with Google to help them create the best possible experience for Android developers on top of IntelliJ platform. The result of the collaboration is Android Studio, which is available as a preview release today. We are sure that it will attract thousands of new developers to the platform and will make Android programming so much more pleasant.

This doesn’t mean we’re dropping Android support from the IntelliJ Community Edition. It will remain a free and open Java IDE with full Android support and will include the new features developed by both the Google and JetBrains teams. We will continue to work hard on the core IntelliJ experience as well as help improve Android Studio.

You can see the updated Android support in the Early Access Preview of IntelliJ IDEA v13 that is opened today. Please try it now and give us your feedback. This EAP build includes all of the new features of Android Studio except for the new project wizard and the AppEngine cloud endpoints integration. These latter features will also appear in our EAP builds in the coming weeks.

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Meet JetBrains at Scala Days NYC 2013

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Robert Demmer

Scala Days NYC, June 10th - 12th

JetBrains will be in the Big Apple June 10th – 12th for Scala Days NYC and we hope to meet you there!

Taking place at the beautiful Hudson Theater in midtown Manhattan, Scala Days 2013 brings together developers from all over the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala and Scala-based libraries and frameworks. The conference provides a great opportunity to meet with the JetBrains team and other key contributors to the language and related technologies.

Come by our booth to learn about our support for Scala, which is available for free in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition via a separate plugin. Our team will be happy to have a conversation and answer your questions.

Be sure not to miss our session with Andrey Cheptsov, “Scala Developer Tools in IntelliJ IDEA: SBT, Play and Scalate,” Wednesday, June 12th from 11:15 – 12:00.

With IntelliJ IDEA frequently called the most intelligent Java IDE, JetBrains is working to replicate similar levels of code assistance and developer tools for Scala. This presentation will showcase some of the IDE’s trickiest features that help developers to be more productive, and will provide a brief overview of IntelliJ IDEA’s plugin infrastructure for Scala development, including support for SBT, Play Framework and Scalate.

Keep up with the latest IntelliJ IDEA news on their blog and on Twitter @intellijidea.

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Recording: Refactoring Legacy Code Bases with ReSharper

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Robert Demmer

The recording of JetBrains and Microsoft joint webinar with Hadi Hariri, Refactoring Legacy Code Bases using Microsoft Visual Studio and ReSharper, is now available on JetBrains.tv and YouTube. Enjoy!

About this webinar:

Not everyone has the possibility of working on Greenfield projects or doing TDD or BDD. Many of us often end up having to work with legacy code bases that have little notion of what SOLID design principles are and unit tests are non-existent. It can be daunting to have to maintain these types of systems. However, with a little bit of effort, we can try and make the best of the situation. We can combine some well-known refactoring techniques, along with code analysis and design concepts to improve the quality of the code.

Keep up with the latest ReSharper news on JetBrains .NET Tools Blog and on Twitter @resharper.

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JetBrains Wins Duke’s Choice Award at JavaOne Russia

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Robert Demmer

Duke's Choice Award - 2013 WinnerIn late 2012 Oracle announced the expansion of the Duke’s Choice Award program to include regional awards in conjunction with each international JavaOne Conference. The expanded Duke’s Choice Award program celebrates Java innovation happening within specific regions (Latin America, Russia, India and China) and provides an opportunity to recognize winners locally.

In keeping with the ten year tradition of the Duke’s Choice Award program and the first at JavaOne Russia (2013), the most important ingredient is innovation. JetBrains has been recognized for the new JavaFX support in the latest version of IntelliJ IDEA, and in general as a strong supporter of open source software. Our free and open Community Edition and other projects such as Kotlin, continue to have a huge influence on the Java community.

Stephen Chin (@steveonjava), Java technical evangelist at Oracle, shares his thoughts on JetBrains receiving Duke’s Choice Award at JavaOne Russia 2013.

“The Duke’s Choice Award is a great honor for us,” says Eugene Toporov, JetBrains Marketing Lead. “We’re glad to receive recognition of our efforts being on the right track with the Java community needs.” Eugene continues, “This is a great motivation for the whole team to continue making software development a pleasure.”

JetBrains is happy and proud to have received multiple awards over the last year that includes Duke’s Choice Award and the JAX Innovation Award for the Most Innovative Java Company 2012.

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Webinar Recording: QA for PHP Projects Using PhpStorm with Michelangelo van Dam

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Robert Demmer

The recording of our April 25th webinar with Mikhail Vink and Michelangelo van Dam, Quality Assurance for PHP Projects Using PhpStorm, is now available on JetBrains.tv and YouTube.

In this webinar, Michelangelo tells us about Quality Assurance for PHP in general and show how different QA-related actions can be performed using PhpStorm IDE.

About This Webinar:

Michelangelo van DamEveryone talks about raising the bar on the quality of code, but it’s hard to implement when you have no clue where to start. This talk is geared toward all levels of developers, and will teach you how to improve by using the right tools effectively – a must-attend for any PHP developer who wants to scale up their quality.

This webinar will cover topics including: Revision control, Syntax checking, Code documentation, Unit Testing with PHPUnit, Measuring code health with a variety of tools, Profiling and debugging with Xdebug, Automation with Phing, Team work and more.

Follow Michelangelo (@DragonBe), Mikhail (@mikhail_vink) and PhpStorm (@phpstorm) on Twitter.

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Stay tuned to our blog and @jetbrains for upcoming webinar announcements.

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Survey For Personal Users Completed – Congratulations to our Winners!

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Maria Sokolova

Our latest Survey for personal users has come to a close and today we’re happy to announce the 10 winners of free product upgrades.

First, we would like to thank all the 1200+ participants who took their valuable time to complete the survey. If you chose a guaranteed 15% discount on your next product upgrade, you’ll receive your personal code at the email address you provided, not later than April 25. Thank you!

Coming back to the main prizes, the 10 winners of free product upgrades are:

  • Dave Rehring, Canada, RubyMine upgrade
  • Andrey Kolchenko, Russian Federation, PhpStorm upgrade
  • Daniel Pohuba, Czech Republic, PhpStorm upgrade
  • Greg Wardwell, United States, PhpStorm upgrade
  • Magnus Olsson, Sweden, ReSharper upgrade
  • Martyn Clark, United Kingdom, IntelliJ IDEA upgrade
  • Illya Ulyanov, Ukraine, ReSharper upgrade
  • Jamshid Asatillayev, United States, IntelliJ IDEA upgrade
  • Tommy Wendelborg, Norway, dotCover upgrade
  • Simon Pettman, United Kingdom, IntelliJ IDEA upgrade

We’ll send your upgrades to the email addresses you provided not later than April 25.

Congratulations to the winners and everyone who have contributed their time. Your input will help us improve our products and services for the benefit of the entire community.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Develop with pleasure!
–JetBrains Team

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