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JetBrains is glad to announce the release of IntelliJ IDEA 5.1.2 This release fixes several stability issues and bugs. See the complete list for more detailed information. Release is free for licensed users of IntelliJ IDEA 5.x and available for download at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/…

You know the "Unnecessary Parentheses" inspection? IntelliJ IDEA has had it for quite some time. And if you were a user of the InspectionGadgets plugin since before it was bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, you know it even longer. The inspection reports any parentheses which do not alter the default evalu…

Of course, tabs is a good way for organizing opened files within an application. However, when you have too many opened tabs it becomes difficult to navigate between them. IntelliJ IDEA helps you to navigate between recently opened files (CTRL + E), but sometimes you need to switch only between the …

It's now about three months since the IntelliJ IDEA blog was started. So, we decided to update it a little bit. We hope you'll like the new color schema. But that's not all. We also improved navigation (yes, now we have that "back-to-home" link on all the pages and the blog title is also a link to …

Code completion is now a must for each and every IDE. But are you using all its power in IntelliJ IDEA? Check out the tricks below to get the answer. Complete variables names How often do you need to declare something like ArrayList list? Using Ctrl + Space you can complete the name of the variable.…

The Monthly Meeting of the Java Special Interest Group (SIG) will take place on Tuesday, June 06 2006, 6:30 PM. Everyone who happens to be near Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto, California is welcome. The agenda includes two presentations (and pizza!). The first presentation - "Effective Java…

Making a product out of your project is usually a boring and time-consuming task: just think about all those build scripts, Java launchers, and installers. And it often takes more than a week to generate all these, then obfuscate your jars, and of course then comes maintenance. The good news is that…

Starting from release 6.0, IntelliJ IDEA will provide Struts support out-of-the-box. The functionality is added by Struts Assistant plugin that is now bundled to IntelliJ IDEA. So you'll get it without any additional download and installation. Furthermore, the plugin will be better integrated with I…

After IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 release, JetBrains asked what do you need/want from AJAX tool. The discussion first started at Javalobby and then continued at Ajaxian. We thank everyone who participated, since the answers were really interesting and useful. This time JetBrains starts a new survey together …

On March, 15th JetBrains made presentations on Team Server and IntelliJ IDEA at Google. The live video of these two presentations is now available at GoogleVideo. Here what Alex Tkachman, JetBrains marketing director who also participated at the presentations, says at his blog: " First talk is done…

.NET industry's smartest plug-in makes its debut on the Visual Studio .NET 2005 Integrated Development Environment May 22, 2006 Prague, Czech Republic, May 22, 2006 - JetBrains®, the makers of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools and applications, today announced the rele…

"Simple Syntax Highlighting" plugin for generic syntax highlighting was recently developed by one of the IntelliJ IDEA enthusiasts. The plugin uses simple configuration files to add syntax highlighting for such programming languages as Python and, of course, Ruby. The plugin is free and can be do…