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Yet another acknowledgement of IntelliJ IDEA leadership in providing the most intelligent Java IDE - this time from Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of Java Developer's Journal. He states that "...this IDE outsmarts me big time... JetBrains folks did an amazing job". To read the full story, visit Yako…

SQL Query plugin is one of the top-ten downloaded IntelliJ IDEA plugins. It allows executing SQL statements through a JDBC connection right from IntelliJ IDEA. It provides you with a syntax highlighting, allows you to work with multiple open queries, save and load queries, and a lot more. The plugi…

During the last three months JetBrains created a series of Flash demos. Two of them are "presentation demos" showing the main functionality of IntelliJ IDEA: IntelliJ IDEA Overview and Web and Enterprise Development with IntelliJ IDEA. Other demos are "tutorials" that demostrate and explain how to …

Even experienced users do not use the full functionality of their products. Sometimes they do not need it, but more often they simply don't know about it. Of course there are lots of resources that can help you study the product (tips&tricks, demos, tutorials, etc.) But imagine that the IDE itse…

You can inspect and optimize your CSS stylesheets by removing duplicate style attributes. IntelliJ IDEA validates CSS stylesheet on-the-fly as you open it and highlights duplicate CSS attributes. Description tooltip appears when you move mouse over them. Click the highlighted attribute to pop up Q…

Meet JetBrains at the Ajax Experience 2006, the international event for Ajax community that will take place in May 10-12th at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. "Ajax with pleasure" presentation will be made by Mike Aizatsky, the team leader of the Web and Enterprise Developm…

A nice Live Template for Swing developers was posted at publicobject.com. The template can save you a lot of time when prototyping Swing code. If you want to find more live templates examples, take a look at the Defining a Live Template for Null-Check post and its comments. Technorati tags: Java, I…

The default VM options for IntelliJ IDEA may be not optimal when your project contains more than 10000 classes and developers often try to change the default options to minimize IntelliJ IDEA hangtime. But sometimes the changes make things even worse. So, how to configure IntelliJ IDEA VM options o…

Manning Publications has announced that they will extend the introductory discount offer on "IntelliJ IDEA in Action" until May 31, 2006. For information about the special discount, visit the IntelliJ IDEA Developer Center. To purchase the book at the special discount price, go to www.manning.com. D…

About a year ago, JetBrains started a licensing program for Open Source projects. In short, developers of active and vital Open Source projects can request and get free IntelliJ IDEA licenses. Today more than 300 Open Source projects received these licences. Among these projects there are a lot of …

When you have cleaned up unnecessary dependencies, you certainly don't want them to appear again. But if you work in a team, this is very probable to happen. So, how to avoid illegal dependencies? Of course, you can periodically analyze and clean up the code as it is described in Analyzing Code Depe…

Atlassian has published the results of Codegeist Competition for which JetBrains is a sponsor. In total, thirty-one new JIRA and Confluence plugins were submitted. All winners get free IntelliJ IDEA licences. Also all participants get 40% discount coupons for IntelliJ IDEA personal licences, thanks …