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Starting with the 2024.3 version of JetBrains IDEs, AI Assistant can not only access the context from your project but also the IDE’s own documentation. Whenever you have a question about how to accomplish a task in a JetBrains IDE, such as WebStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, or PyCharm, AI Assistant is here t…

Back in the day, computer games were different. Not only have their graphics and mechanics evolved, but they also had one characteristic that doesn’t seem very common in games today: cheat codes. Cheat codes were sequences of keys that would give you something extraordinary, such as infinite ammo o…

In a typical debugging scenario, you would set breakpoints to tell the debugger when to suspend your program. A breakpoint usually corresponds to the moment that marks the starting point for further investigation. Deciding where to set a breakpoint can be challenging. There might be situations wher…

DSL? What DSL?The essence of the Kotlin DSLDemonstrationThree key strengths of our approachSeparation of ConcernsDocs-as-Code on a whole new levelExtensibilityWhy Kotlin?Do I need to be a coder to use the Kotlin DSL?Conclusion This material was initially presented at the API The Docs Conference i…

If you’re a professional Java developer, you probably use IntelliJ IDEA as your IDE and Lombok as the framework that handles the Java boilerplate. What you probably didn’t know is that not only do these 2 technologies work well on their own, but when combined, they’re even more efficient than when u…

One of the most common debugging techniques, printf debugging is particularly popular because most people learn it intuitively when debugging their first programs. This type of debugging is also very accessible because you don’t need any special tools for it. You just insert print statements into yo…

Web testing becomes more and more convenient with the advent of new frameworks that make our lives easier. Modern frameworks abstract us from a lot of configuration and boilerplate and let us concentrate on our business objectives instead. Selenium lets us interact with web elements through a conven…

We often find ourselves in situations where code is not working properly, and we have no idea where to even begin investigating. Can’t we just stare at the code until the solution eventually comes to us? Sure, but this method probably won’t work without deep knowledge of the project and a lot of men…

There are a lot of debugger tutorials out there that teach you how to set line breakpoints, log values, or evaluate expressions. While this knowledge alone gives you a lot of tools for debugging your application, real-world scenarios may be somewhat trickier and require a more advanced approach. …

When writing code, we constantly receive assistance from static analysis. Invisible mechanisms work behind the scenes to provide us with all sorts of suggestions and warnings. It would not be an exaggeration to say that IntelliJ IDEA knows more about our code than we do. Now what if we could access …