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We're glad to inform you that the third annual IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin Contest has kicked off! This year we are raising the bar and giving away over USD66,000 in cash and software to the contest winners!The official contest start date is September 15. You can get more familiar with its rules, prizes a…

It is sometimes the case, you can create plugins you want to preserve for internal use only. With IntelliJ IDEA you can maintain your own enterprise repository to share your plugins with team members solely. To create a repository, we need a Web server, where our plugins will reside, and a desc…

Yesterday the results of JetBrains' annual contest for the best plug-in to IntelliJ IDEA were announced. 7 plug-ins were selected by the jury composed of IntelliJ IDEA development team members. Their respective authors will take away great cash and software prizes. The names of the winners are liste…

We're very glad to announce that our colleagues at Atlassian are running their second annual plugin competition. This year, they're giving away $20,000 in cash and a bunch of software licenses, including ones from JetBrains. The person or team (up to three) who comes up with the coolest, most usef…

Today, on September 1st we're proud to announce the launch of the first ever IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Contest. Anyone who ever wrote an IntelliJ IDEA plugin, or is just planning to start, can win cash and software prizes valued at over $25,000. Be first to prove yourself worthy, hone you skills, enha…

No one can create a tool that does everything you want it to do. That's why so many IDE's provide some public API for writing plugins. IntelliJ IDEA is also one of them. But having an API is not all. How to start writing plugins for IntelliJ IDEA? What a plugin can and cannot add to the IDE? We hav…