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Continuous Integration and Build Management server introduces personal builds on branches for Git & Mercurial, adds many improvements for .NET teams, and drops major restrictions of its free Professional Edition May 26, 2011 Prague, Czech Republic, February 24, 2011 — JetBrains, the c…

JetBrains converts more developers with a new, specially priced IntelliJ IDEA featuring cuttingedge technologies such as Java 7, Groovy 1.8 and Spring 3.1 May 16, 2011 Prague, Czech Republic, February 24, 2011 — JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivityenhancing tools for softw…

Find it hard to shake of the Java-isms? Here's a little inspection and quick fix to help out when you redundantly use `return`. After the quick fix is applied: What other anti-patterns do you notice in code written by recent converts from Java? Pattern Matching on booleans? Overuse of …

If you've already launched IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 you probably noticed this  "green notification" asking your permission to send information to JetBrains about your IntelliJ IDEA project configuration (which frameworks are used and which are not) and feature usage statistics (e.g. how often extract meth…

Yes! The sunny Spring has finally come to St.Petersburg too. However, it's not that "Spring" we want to talk now... We realize that many of you use the Spring framework in your every day work. So, many should be interested in the new Spring-related features that can be found in the upcoming Intell…

A few years back, I was working with a great team of Java developers who introduced me to IntelliJ. (Thanks!) The team used to even have a plugin, tailored to our coding practices. One indispensible feature was the 'Toggle Test', to flick between production code and the corresponding unit test. T…

Hello guys, We are working hard on new features for PhpStorm 2.1, and the 'Extract Function/Method' refactoring for PHP is one of them. This feature has been available since the first PhpStorm 2.1 EAP(106.444), and we are looking forward for your feedback. The main point of the refactoring is to c…

Unused Symbols Invariably as  code evolves, some lonely unused definitions are are left around. To help you find and eradicate these, IDEA now highlights unused vals, vars, and defs. You can use the quick fix to delete the unused symbol. Needless Vars Similarly, IDEA highlights nee…

On the 5th May, in collaboration with our partners Pluralsight, we will be doing a webcast on Agile environments:   - What exactly is an Agile environment - Best practices for setting up environments with TeamCity, YouTrack and an OSS stack   This webcast is completely free and open t…

String Literals just got a little smarter! You can now convert a normal strings to multiline (with triple quotes) string.  Notice how the special characters are escaped. (SCL-2991) And back again: Similarly, when you paste some text into a normal string (for example: C:\path…

Spring 3.1 "c-namespace" facility is now supported in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 with code completion, error highlighting, quick fixes and code generation. Grab the fresh IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAP build 106.561, check the release notes and send us your feedback. Happy Easter Holidays!…

In IDEA 10.5 "Find Usages" (Alt-F7) results for tables and columns include database schema usages, i.e. references in indices, primary and foreign keys, see screenshot below: Develop with pleasure!…