We want everyone to have the best possible experience with TeamCity, regardless of the size of their team, the complexity of their project, or the technologies they use. In this post, I want to share how we integrate internal feedback from JetBrains teams into our development process. Modern software development practices rely on short iterations and continuous feedback, which allow you to quickly validate your ideas against real users: A common way to run usability research is to recruit a bunch of people, give them a test scenario, and observe their experience while they try to complete yo

It is that time of year again! 48 hours of limitless freedom to play, create, and test out ideas that may go nowhere – or that might just change the world. Following the spirit of Hackathons, this year, we adapted and evolved, and borne our first JetBrains Hackathon: Home Edition, something it turns out that not many of our community members have tried. Our Hackathons bring together people that may not have otherwise cooperated before. Working in 10 cities across 7 countries with time zones as much as 5 hours’ difference, 48 teams made up of 155 participants set out to bring their projects to life.

JetBrains has turned 20, and over the years, we've honed methods for development that match the style, values, and needs of our company. These processes work so well for us that we want to share them with others. Dogfooding, for example, has always played a central role in the development of our products, and with this video we want to share its role in our creative process with you. In the software development industry, dogfooding is the practice of testing your products within your company, using them as the end users would. Effectively, you have to eat your own dog food to ensure that your

Update: Makefile projects support is now public in CLion 2020.2. What request in our tracker has more than 1000 votes, 370 comments, and 800 watchers? You guessed it: Support Makefile projects. This has been a story of interesting findings, semi-automatic workarounds, and a long battle that we still plan to win! If you’d like to get the latest news on this topic, please read on. From past to present: the evolution of project models in CLion Support for Makefile projects: How-to Option 1: Compiler wrappers Option 2: LD_PRELOAD Option 3: Parse the output of Make Support fo

On February 5th we celebrated JetBrains 20th birthday with our beloved community online and in the special section of JetBrains 2019 Annual Highlights. Thank you for the heartfelt and warm birthday greetings that we received. We appreciate the love and would like to share a few of the many birthday wishes that hit home! @RobEden on Twitter Congratulations on 20 years, JetBrains! Your tools have made me a better developer. I love how, even as the company has grown, it's always been clear that my feedback matters. #JB20Bday @CalvinNrnha on Twitter Started using @androidstudio and appreciated i

Arranging a new hackathon The arrangement With the expansion of JetBrains this year and the move into our new offices, we had to push back this year’s hackathon a little bit. But, if anything, this ignited the drive to develop new ideas in our team. So here is a rundown of what went down this year. The rules were simple: The Hackathon began Wednesday, September 18th, at noon sharp CEST and ran for 48 hours. The last commit was allowed no later than Friday, September 20th, noon CEST. Presentations needed to be provided to the Org.Committee by this time as well. 5-minute presenta

Update: Read the update from 2019 about our code-generated art being used to create original artworks. Crafting tools and making them better is human nature. JetBrains has built its business on this tradition, by creating tools which developers love using daily and which automate the routine parts of their jobs. Almost 2 years ago, we shared a story of how we create artwork at JetBrains, along with a cool and geeky tool you could play with to create your own JetBrains-styled art. Today we want to reveal the progress we’ve made in advancing our generative approach to creating artwork, and give

Behind every JetBrains product, there are numerous teams: developers, product marketing (PMM), technical writers, designers and many others. Each team has established their own workflows to match their goals, working habits, and the team profile. In an earlier post, we described how the YouTrack team had been cooking Scrum and had managed to transform this methodology to find the most balanced approach that works for them. Today, we will tell you how other JetBrains teams organize their processes, customize their Agile boards to meet the team’s needs, and what strategies can be useful to be

The Hackathlon “Don’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.” — Michael Phelps, winner of 23 Olympic gold medals Faster. Higher. Stronger. The stage was set for the event of the year; the coveted JetBrains hackathon. The rules were very simple: The Hackathon starts on Wednesday, June 27, at noon sharp CEST and runs for 48 hours. The last commit is allowed no later than Friday, June 29 noon CEST. Presentations must be provided to the Org.Committee by this time as well. 5-minute presentations will start 1 hour later, at 13:00 CEST on the same Friday.

Six years ago, the YouTrack team started developing an Agile board in YouTrack (our issue tracker and agile project management tool). At JetBrains, dogfooding is one of the key principles of product development. So while building a tool for our customers that conformed to the main principles of an agile framework, we knew we had to experience Agile firsthand. That’s when we decided to adopt Scrum. That was our first attempt towards the world of Agile practices. Unfortunately, after a couple of years (when our Agile board was released), we dropped our Scrum practices for a while. In 2016, we

Looking back at Hackathon 5 “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs. In two days that is exactly the attitude a determined few embraced. With JetBrains’ 5th Internal Hackathon innovation, hard work, and determination the start of some incredible projects have been dreamed up, explored and discovered with already promising results. 48 hours Two days, 52 submissions, and 40 successful projects. The atmosphere in JetBrains was charged by the 99 participants who gathered on Wednesday, May 31st, ready to make their ideas come to life.

“Oh, thank you!! I’m 17, ehm, no 15... well it depends :)” Every year in early February we celebrate JetBrains birthday in our offices. While reviewing pictures from celebrations this year we noticed an interesting thing — different offices consider JetBrains age to be different? Why?! Well, developers mainly think in code, and the first lines of IntelliJ IDEA code appeared in a product named IntelliJ Renamer and were developed by the company named IntelliJ Software back in 2000. It then became JetBrains. So it makes us 17 based on that. But some people know and remember the date