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Today we have published a new IDEA 14.1 EAP build. It fixes many bugs found in the first EAP build and also includes new features and improvements. In particular it supports automatic setup of GWT facets for projects imported from Gradle and allows you to view differences in a more compact form: …

              Extract Surrounding Method: You have two methods that contain nearly identical code. The variance is in the middle of the method. Extract the duplication into a method that accepts a block and yields back to the caller to execute the unique code. Jay Fields, Shane Harvie In Java, if we…

Happy Friday everyone, Today I’d like to highlight some recent changes and improvements in PyCharm`s Python debugger and explore the brand new attach to process in more detail. Previously PyCharm used a special fork of the PyDev debugger with some PyCharm-specific changes, as well as our own unique …

<Extract method refactoring> turns a fragment into a method whose name explains the purpose of the method. Martin Fowler When we select a block of code, IntelliJ IDEA’s data flow analysis engine is able to deduce all local variables and parameters that are used inside, but are declared outsi…

One of the useful new features of MPS 3.2 will be its compatibility with JDK 8. Not only you will be able to run MPS on JDK 8, but MPS will also correctly handle new Java 8 syntax enhancements and let you make use of them. Read on to find out some tips. Configuration A new configuration tab in the…

If you’re involved in web development and, for some reason, you haven’t given a ride to IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 yet, this will talk you into doing it right away. Has it happened to you that you changed an HTML or an XML tag in your code and broke it because of forgetting to change both the opening and…

Earlier this week we've announced the start of IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 EAP. Among the new features available in the preview build, this one you're going to especially like: the built-in decompiler (introduced in IntelliJ IDEA 14) now has debugging capabilities. This means that now you can use breakpoi…

Great news, everyone! It’s time to reveal what we’ve been working on since December and what new features the next update will bring to you. Today we’re officially announcing the start of IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 EAP (Early Access Program), which means you can not only see the list of new features, but al…

Greetings, everyone! Today we are announcing the release of TeamCity 9.0.2! This bugfix is rather important as it addresses about 100 issues. The fixes affect: backup performance (TW-39612) LDAP synchronization (TW-39589) mechanism of applying changes in versioned settings (TW-39519, TW-3…

Not a month ago IntelliJ IDEA 14 picked up the "2015 Jolt Productivity Award for Coding Tools" from Dr. Dobb's, and now it's been named "2015 Technology of the Year" by InfoWorld! This award is granted every year to the best platforms and tools that push the limits in application development,…

What makes PHP great is the community that is building frameworks, libraries and nice tools. And more. This awesome community brought us Composer, a dependency manager for PHP which lets us install and update packages from Packagist.org and makes it easy to package up our own projects and make them …