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Let’s say you have a really dense function or method, with lots of arguments passed in and lots of local variables. Syntax highlighting helps some, but can PyCharm do more? In 2017.1, PyCharm ships with “semantic highlighting” available as a preference. What is it, what problem does it solve, and…

Git can be hard, particularly if you've been dropped in at the deep end and are only used to working in a specific way, so it's our intention to address how to accomplish certain version control tasks in a JetBrains IDE during this series. In this first episode, myself (Gary Hockin, Developer Adv…

Last summer the PyCharm team released some amazing content introducing the version control system (VCS) in PyCharm. These videos are equally as relevant to PhpStorm as they are to PyCharm, as the two IDEs share the same underlying platform. (more…)…

In the recent What's New video for PhpStorm 2016.3, I noticed I was always adding PHP 7's strict type declaration `declare(strict_types=1)` to every new file I created. (more…)…

The family of education resources for IntelliJ IDEA welcomes a new member! Now, in addition to “What’s new” videos, documentation, blog posts and screencasts, the IDE Features Trainer plugin is available to help you learn the shortcuts for the most used IDE actions. The current version includes 5 mo…

It started with a Tweet: Who do i know that uses PHPstorm with VVV and XDebug? I need some guidance on getting things setup. — Andrew Woods (@awoods) June 21, 2016   Recently we've made a lot of changes to debugging in PhpStorm to try and make the process as simple as possible. So I dec…

If you’re a Python developer who uses a text editor such as Vim, Emacs, or Sublime Text, you might wonder what it takes to switch to PyCharm as an IDE for your development. We’ve written a helpful Migrating from Text Editors tutorial for just this topic. The tutorial starts with the basic questio…

Please note: this blog post was written in 2015, and parts of it have become outdated. If you're using Docker Compose, please read our newer blog post on using Docker Compose. Modern development workflows emphasize isolation and reproducability in development and production. Docker and its pl…

Python 3.5 introduces type hinting to help code-writing during development. Let’s take a look at this feature and show it in action. Motivation Some folks, but not all, like help from their tools when writing code and documentation. For example, lint-like tools can spot errors before your code e…

Docker is an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. It gives programmers, development teams and operations engineers the common toolbox they need to take advantage of the distributed and networked nature of modern applications. With the new Docker integration p…