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The weather is hotting up, and so is the PHP community. Gary Hockin once again rounds up the latest news from the PHP community, in Annotated Monthly. (more…)…

Spring is finally here, and the PHP conference season is in full flow. Gary Hockin once again rounds up the latest news from the PHP community, in Annotated Monthly. (more…)…

How time flies when you’re having fun! Two years ago, we brought you the Annotated Java Monthly, now J.A.M. (homemade at JetBrains) and thanks to tasteful readers like yourself, we now have a number of flavors including the PHP Annotated, C++ Annotated and the Kotlin Digest for you to enjoy. Filled …

For the recent 2016.1 release, a lot of work was done to improve the group use functionality that landed in PHP 7. (more…)…

As winter rolls into Spring, it’s time for another roundup of all the interesting things in the PHP world, with PHP Annotated Monthly for March. This month has been compiled by travelling shill and PhpStorm Developer Advocate Gary Hockin. (more…)…

Project Jigsaw. Emerging languages. Android N. Spring 4.3 is in the air and 2016 is already shaping into a productive year for Java developers. Over the last few months, we’ve seen rapid progress on Java 9, and early signs of Java 8 support on Android devices. In this issue of the Java Annotated, we…

PhpStorm has always had great features that helped you to manage code and databases that are hosted on remote servers. These features have been improved in PhpStorm 2016.1 as you can now keep these remote connections alive. (more…)…

When refactoring, sometimes you wish to change your methods to be static, while this isn't the best practice in the world, it's possible you'll be in a position where pragmatism will take priority over great design. If you are 100% percent certain that you won't need to mock something, then use the …

Up until now, we've only been able to configure interpreters globally within PhpStorm. This has made configuring project-specific PHP interpreters impossible, and has left the configuration feeling cluttered as configurations for all projects appeared everywhere. PhpStorm 11, however, introduces pro…

As mobile development is growing and a lot of JetBrains tools get increasingly exposed to mobile developers, we are looking to adapt and ensure the best experience. However, most of us are not particularly experienced in mobile development tech, which doesn't really help understand how we need to i…

When you have failed PHPUnit tests to fix, it can be painful to have to rerun your whole test suite just to see if a change has fixed that broken test. In PhpStorm 11  you can now rerun only failed tests from within the test runner. (more…)…

Kotlin provides conciseness, null-safety, interoperability and functional constructs to Java 6 and up. February 15, 2016 JetBrains has announced the immediate availability of their Open Source language Kotlin, targeted at the JVM and JavaScript. Kotlin is a multi-purpose language that can b…