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In TeamCity 2020.1, we have introduced a highly demanded feature – conditional build steps. With new execution conditions, you can control whether or not a given build step is executed in every build run, depending on the current environment and parameters. In this video demonstration we: explai…

Developing a working piece of software is difficult. Just like building an airplane, it requires talented people, working components, and a testing framework. No plane leaves the hangar before everything is ready, checked, and double-checked. At JetBrains, we adopt the same philosophy for building …

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is inarguably a successful approach to building web applications. The design gained popularity in many tech communities, implemented in frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django, and Spring. Since April 2, 2009, Microsoft has offered developers the ability to crea…

Checklists in Space are our vision of a lightweight tool for top-down planning. You can use them to plan a milestone, a version, a feature, or an event such as a team gathering. Whatever you can brainstorm and outline for your project, you can plan thanks to our hierarchical checklists. In this pos…

At JetBrains, we make tools for developers, so we keep up with the latest trends and changes in the software development industry. We build many IDEs based on multi-platform software product lines for various programming languages. Our Developer Ecosystem Survey, which JetBrains runs yearly, aims…

We’ve only just started the EAP for Rider 2020.2, but it’s already got plenty of goodies for Unity development. For example, we’ve done a huge amount of work to reduce memory overhead when parsing your assets, and Rider will now find usages and show Inspector values of more types, methods and fields…

Space Packages continue evolving! In addition to creating Maven repositories and container registries, now you can create your own NuGet feeds. If you're interested, let's take a closer look. (more…)…

Version 2020.2 EAP01 finally brings dotMemory to Linux and macOS! For these systems, dotMemory is currently available only as a command-line tool. The tool is free and lets you take and save memory snapshots. To analyze the snapshots, you still need the standalone version of dotMemory, which is only…

This month in computing history: In 1977, Apple shipped the Apple II. In 1995 Spyglass went public! Ahhh, the good old days. If you've been around for far too many decades in this field (like me), raise your hand if you remember Spyglass Mosaic! It's not a thing anymore but it Mosaic was a key playe…

Let's continue our series of blog posts dedicated to Space Packages. The previous post was about working with Maven repositories. In this one, let's play with container registries! What are they for? The most obvious example is a Docker registry, but in addition to Docker images, container registrie…