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Please give a warm welcome to JetBrains Toolbox App as it officially reaches 1.0! We at JetBrains think of coding as a creative process, one that is best done when you’re in the ‘flow’. All our products are designed with this principle in mind. As such, downloading product updates and installing th…

Last summer we held our third annual two-day hackathon, an event where anyone and everyone from JetBrains (as well as a few external contributors) gathered to work on a novel, high-impact idea. The JetBrains App Launcher was one of these Hackathon projects. The idea behind the project was to simpli…

Good news, everyone! With the latest IntelliJ IDEA 13 EAP build the IDE is almost compatible with Java 7 on Retina devices. That means you can safely switch from Apple JDK 1.6 to Oracle JDK 1.7 on your Macs. The latest build of JDK 7 (1.7.0_40) has many fixes for Retina devices, better fonts ren…

Hello everyone and welcome to the first IntelliJ IDEA EAP in 2013. We're very close to the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12.0.2 update and would like to get your feedback from one more preview build. There are some fixes for Darcula critical issues and a bunch of Retina icons for our Mac users. Please …

Every developer in the Java world has to deal with exceptions. An exception stack trace is the easiest way to tell what's wrong in your program. In IntelliJ IDEA, we strive to make stack trace analysis as user-friendly as possible for you. To this end, IntelliJ IDEA has an Exception Analyzer which h…

We know that one of the most popular ways to navigate within a file is File Structure popup. We've recently redesigned it to make the navigation more comfortable. New File Structure is tree-based and shows everything in your file when you first invoke it with Control+F12. The following short screen…

When working with big projects we always come back to 10-20 items/files where we do the most of our work. IntelliJ IDEA helps you collecting all these items in one place — 'Favorites'. It's easy to add a file, a class or a method to the Favorites by simply pressing Alt+Shift+F. You can also d…

We've slightly redesigned Navigation Bar and added some new sweet features. Watch this short demo for the details and a general overview of NavBar abilities.…

Did you know that IntelliJ IDEA 11 Diff Tool supports some of binary contents? Now, it's not a problem to see changes from file history or a change list. Every binary content you're able to open in IntelliJ might be compared in Diff Tool: UML diagrams, SWF files, of course images, and much, much mor…

In IntelliJ IDEA 11 you can check your Regular Expressions while coding without leaving the IDE. Just invoke the 'Check RegExp' intention action on a regular expression and play! Tip: You can turn any string into a regular expression by injecting RegExp language. Try the 'Inject Language' intenti…

We at JetBrains know how important it is to track what has been changed in your project from one version or revision to another. This is why IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 brings you new Diff Tools for comparing local directories, DB objects (Data Sources, Schemes, Tables). In later updates we're planning on in…