Best Practices

Have you ever wondered how to make sure that your determination to live a healthier life, not sweat the small stuff, and work smarter, not harder continues past Valentine's Day? Psychologists say that breaking big goals into small steps is the best way to stick to your New Year's resolutions. This advice applies to programmers’ resolutions too. If you plan a large project that involves code refactoring, you may want to see the full picture of the required changes and plan accordingly. This is exactly what the IntelliJ team did when they needed to localize the IDE’s entire UI into Chinese, J

Those who couldn't join us for our show can catch up by watching the recording on our YouTube channel. Sandro Mancuso’s first startup project was the canvas for our testing and refactoring practices during the IntelliJ IDEA December Live Stream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSqbXorkyfQ&t=3s Sandro took us on a nostalgic tour through the 20-year-old codebase. Years ago, Sandro implemented his first startup idea, a social network for travelers, and spent a full year on development. After a long break, Sandro decided to dive back into the project to refresh his memory and show u

The fourth episode of Coffee Club is available on our youtube playlist! This time, it’s the perfect mix of expert discussion and casual conversation focusing on personal growth.  Dalia Abo Sheasha, Helen Scott, Angie Jones, and Marco Behler discussed sponsorship and mentorship. Our four speakers offered thoughts and stories about their experiences gaining and sharing knowledge. We learned about asking others for advice and regular evaluation meetings, and we talked about where and how to find inspiration. Our audience gave helpful input, with experienced professionals sharing their

Our November live stream will be focused on testing, with Mala Gupta hosting a talk by Christian Stein, one of the co-maintainers of JUnit. In this session, Christian will teach us how to write tests with JUnit 5, the programmer-friendly framework for Java and JVM. Join the session 'IntelliJ IDEA and JUnit: Writing, Finding, and Running Tests' on November 17, 2021, at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET. Session DescriptionWriting example programs is a good start to ensure your software does what it should do. The goal is for those example programs to be manually and automatically executable. Manual execut