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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

In this blog, we're going to look at 3 ways to refactor your code in IntelliJ IDEA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWU25YwDfc This blog post covers the same material as the video with some additional tips and tricks. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. Simplifying your code has lots of advantages, including improving readability, tackling technical debt, and managing ever-changing requirements. The three types of refactoring we will look at in this

On the 10th July 2020, JetBrains hosted a Technology Day for Java. We had 10 presentations and the videos for them are available here. Over the coming weeks, in no particular order, we'd like to share with you extra resources that our speakers kindly provided and any links to further reading or code samples. We hosted Venkat Subramaniam talking to us about how big data, or highly responsive applications, can scale to the increasing demands for speed and short response. The smart solution comes from being lazy; laziness can translate to efficiency and scalability. In this presentation we start