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Great news for those who are eager to learn more about developing IntelliJ IDEA plugins. In January you have a chance to participate in the second free webinar on developing a plugin from scratch. The second part will cover the following topics: Test our example plugin using our testing framework…

Yesterday we published the recording of the webinar Writing Plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, where John Lindquist discussed the plugin development process with Mihai Toader. We received a lot of feedback from the community. Getting started with plugin development is perceived to be difficult mostly due t…

We're happy to announce the winners of the fourth JetBrains IDEAl Plugin Contest, in which the users could submit all plugins released between January 1st, 2009 and March 31, 2010. Once again, we've received a lot of great submissions, and were quite impressed with the quality of most of them. And t…

If you're an IntelliJ IDEA plugin developer, you're surely going to enjoy IntelliJ IDEA PSI Viewer (Tools -> View PSI Structure), which displays internal structure of various files, as they're interpreted by IntelliJ IDEA. If you're implementing a new language support, or trying to add some cool …

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…