Interviews

Today we’re continuing the series of guest posts from the creators of IntelliJ IDEA plugins for Salesforce (or Force.com) developers. The first post covered Illuminated Cloud 2 plugin. Please meet the 2nd blog post by Michael Shumenko, co-founder of JetForcer. Deep dive into Salesforce development with JetForcer Most people have already heard of Salesforce. This company is behind one of the largest and most well-known platforms for CRM solutions. Today, the company has more than an 18% market share and has surpassed even the giants SAP and Oracle. Every day, Salesforce developers from all ar

Today we're starting a 2-part series of guest posts from the creators of IntelliJ IDEA plugins for Salesforce (or Force.com) developers. The plugins are Illuminated Cloud 2 and JetForcer. Please meet the 1st blog post by Scott Wells, the developer of Illuminated Cloud. And do not miss the second post that covers JetForcer plugin. In late 2010, I started leading our product engineering organization in the transition from a traditional on-premise Enterprise-style software model to a modern SaaS-based model. After a short evaluation of existing PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS offerings, we determined that

Two months ago Google rolled out Android Studio, their brand new IDE for Android developers. The new IDE, built on top of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, has replaced ADT, a plugin for Eclipse, changing "developer experience" for millions of Android developers. As a member of the IntelliJ IDEA crew, I couldn't miss a chance to discuss this "small revolution" with one of the Googlers behind it – meet Tor Norbye. Andrey: Before joining the ADT team at Google, where you’re working with Eclipse, you’ve also had quite a lot of experience with NetBeans at Sun Microsystems. I'm sure you know a lo

Every book is a source of wisdom and happiness. Every book about IntelliJ IDEA is also a source of productivity. Can you imagine how excited we were when we heard that Jarosław Krochmalski wrote his book on IntelliJ IDEA? Now if you decide to give IntelliJ IDEA a try as a beginner Java developer or coming from another IDE, this book will be of great help! We couldn’t miss this chance to talk with Jarosław and ask him a few questions about his book, IntelliJ IDEA, open source software, and of course Java. Enjoy reading! (more…)