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Inside Darcula L&F: An Interview with Konstantin Bulenkov
In this interview we speak with Konstantin Bulenkov about Darcula, the new stylish dark look and feel that first appeared in the 2012 release of IntelliJ IDEA 12. Since that time, the popular look and feel has been rolled out … Continue reading
Posted in Behind-the-scenes, Interviews
Tagged darcula, dark look and feel, IntelliJ Platform, l&f, ui
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JetBrains Hackathon 2013: Winning Project Weighs in at 100 KG
A few days ago our St. Petersburg and Munich offices together held an exciting Hackathon. Dozens of teams put their regular projects aside and devoted 48 hours to designing and coding their own new product. Hackathons, also called hack days, … Continue reading
JetBrains wins IT Table Tennis Cup 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia, for 2nd year in a row!
You can probably tell that we at JetBrains love table tennis. Many of us enjoy taking a break and hitting a few balls over the net in the special room we have in the office. IT Table Tennis Cup became … Continue reading
Posted in Behind-the-scenes, Contests, FYI, News
Tagged JetBrains team, sports, tournament
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Help us choose a new PhpStorm T-shirt design
Hey! We’re calling for all members of our Community, especially PhpStorm users to help us choose the best T-shirt design for the IDE. T-shirts that get the most votes will soon appear in our Apparel Store. You will be able to … Continue reading
JetBrains Research Labs Quarterly Report
Hi everyone! Can you believe 2013 is ¼ done already? We’ve been busy though, and not merely to update our existing products. Let me bring you up to speed on some of our latest research. Augmented Reality in Coders’ Daily … Continue reading
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Of Big Eyes, Birds, Bugs and Charisma
The early bird catches the worm ~ English proverb You may remember our captivating story about how AppCode came to be that we shared last year. Today we have another behind-the-scenes episode, this time about our Agile bug and issue … Continue reading
Santa Service at JetBrains
The closer Christmas gets, the more license requests our Community Support department receives. We could never hope to get through them all if it weren’t for JetBrains Santa with his Christmas magic. Here’s one letter from a couple of years ago … Continue reading
How do you like ‘em apples? The story of AppCode logo
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these … Continue reading
Having Fun with Codenames
Developers work hard. So to keep our creative juices flowing, sometimes we need to entertain ourselves and take our mind off work. One way we do this at JetBrains is by having fun with codenames for future product releases. Here … Continue reading