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Time flies! Last week we started IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 EAP and today we have a new EAP build to share with you. Among bugfixes, the build brings a couple of notable changes. First of all, the OS X users will notice, that the default font of the UI (Settings→ Appearance & Behavior → Appearance …

We’re excited to announce the opening of IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 EAP, the Early Access Program for the update planned for this Autumn. Everyone is welcome to download the EAP build, give it a spin, and share their feedback with us through our tracker. Read below about the major improvements in t…

PhpStorm 2016.2.1 build 162.1889 is available for download! If you missed the PhpStorm 2016.2 release, find out more about it on the What’s new page. If you are already using it, you’ll soon get a notification about available patch-update. Note: Please note that you will be asked for your license…

If you want to take better control of your tasks and projects and measure the time you spend developing, check out the Time Tracking Plugin which was bundled with PhpStorm 2016.1 earlier this year. (more…)…

Every day we try to find new ways to improve developer experience with IntelliJ IDEA. It may be a bugfix, a performance improvement, or a new feature (usually in this order). Today we'd like to introduce a new plugin called JVM Debugger Memory View. The plugin extends the built-in debugger with c…

Here's another handy new little feature in 3.4 that we want to introduce to you - the Icon description language. This language helps describing and instantiating icons for various MPS elements: concepts, actions etc. Again, mbeddr has inspired us here, namely their iconchar language. The langage …

The new visual assistance tools that were explained in one of the previous posts are really addictive. We could not help it and, to test the feature properly, we implemented Context Assistant for the language definition languages. More concretely, the structure and the editor languages leverage the …

MPS has been searching gradually over several releases for the best way to approach explicit generation plans and cross-model generation. MPS 3.4 represents another substantial step in this direction. It brings two major enhancements: Debug information in checkpoint models Using DevKits to ass…

One of the new features in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 is support for the new JUnit 5 testing framework.  Almost all Java developers will have used JUnit at some point, so it's pretty exciting to find the newest version has evolved with the times and provides a number of new features, some of which may be …

There are two new features in MPS 3.4 that I would like to drive your attention to today - the Context Assistant and the Context Actions Tool. Both have been inspired by the mbeddr project and both aim at making code editing easier and more intuitive, especially for novice users. Making the most rel…

One of the major enhancements that you’ll get with MPS 3.4 is the new Transformation Menu Language. This is meant as a replacement and a major improvement over the functionality of Side-transformations and Node substitutions, which have been deprecated and will be removed from MPS in one of the next…