30 Days Guide

It's hard to imagine today's development process without the use of version control. Whether you work for a big company, or pursue your own hobby project, version control is essential for team collaboration and product delivery. That's why the today's article from our 30 Day Guide is about version control basics. IntelliJ IDEA supports the most popular version controls including Git, GitHub, Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, TFS, CVS, Visual SourceSafe, and Rational ClearCase, out of the box, without the need to install any plugins, and, what's especially nice — they all work uniformly and

We're continuing to publish new articles from the 30 Day Guide on the use of fundamental (and tricky, nevertheless) features of IntelliJ IDEA, and in today's article we're going to discuss the basics of refactoring. Did you know? It's no secret that IntelliJ IDEA encourages you to use the keyboard instead of the mouse. It’s proven to be faster and in the end will make you more productive. But did you know that you can use the keyboard even to access the controls within refactoring popup windows, via mnemonics? When you see a popup window or a dialog, press and hold Alt to let IntelliJ

Last year was so busy with conferences and the major release of v13 that at some point we stopped publishing new articles from the 30 Day Guide. But we're back on track now! The new year always means new tips and tricks for your favorite IDE. The good news is that the new article is already awaiting for you, this time on how to work with application servers. (more…)

Not a week without productivity-boosting advice from your favourite IDE, and we're happy to keep this going on by publishing yet another article from our 30 Day Guide on the fundamental features of IntelliJ IDEA, this time about keymaps. IntelliJ IDEA comes with a set of keymaps that have been specially adapted for use with different operating systems, and to ease the transition from other IDE and editors. For example, if you are a long time user of Eclipse or NetBeans, Vim or an avid Emacs fan, you can find the keymap that is right for you. Read the complete article to explore more

Thank God it's Friday! But before you start enjoying the weekend, we have one more article to share with you from our 30 Day Guide, exploring the trickiest features of IntelliJ IDEA. Today we will talk about such an essential tool as the debugger. If you think you know everything about it, you're in for a surprise. With IntelliJ IDEA, the productivity-enhancing possibilities are endless. Smart step into Did you know that IntelliJ IDEA lets you choose a method to step into when you stay at line with more than one method calling? To do that you have to use Smart step into action via Shift + F

Hope you are getting used to learning more new things about your favorite IDE each week. This week is no exception as we've published the next article from our 30 Day Guide on the fundamental features of IntelliJ IDEA. As you may remember, a few weeks ago we talked about inspections and quick-fixes. Today we talk about slightly similar and very simple feature like intentions. While inspections provide quick-fixes for code that has potential problems, intentions help you apply automatic changes to code that is correct. To get a list of intentions applicable to the code at the caret, just press

It's a great tradition to learn new things about your favourite IDE each week. Just to keep it going we publish this article from our 30 Day Guide about fundamental features of IntelliJ IDEA. Today we will talk about the code style and how the IDE can help you with that. As you know, code style defines how your code looks in terms of indents, spaces, wrapping, blank lines, and statements order. Consistent code style helps to make it easier for your team to read and understand it. IntelliJ IDEA provides built-in tools that help you configure code style for your project and apply it to the code

We continue to publish new articles from the 30 Day Guide for learning the fundamental features of IntelliJ IDEA. Today we will talk about such basic thing as inspections. As you know inspections are built-in tools that help you find probable bugs, locate dead code, detect performance issues and improve the overall code structure. Navigate to the next/previous problem Did you know that you can quickly navigate between the highlighted problems within a file via shortcuts? Press F2 to go to the next problem and Shift + F2 to the previous one. If you press Ctrl + F1 (Cmd + F1 for Mac) the ID

Start a new week of productive coding with a cup of coffee or a new article from our 30 Day Guide on the trickier features of IntelliJ IDEA. Today we will talk about finding usages -- a well-known feature but one that you could learn more about. Just as a reminder, Find usages helps you quickly find all pieces of code referencing a symbol at the caret, within a file or in the whole project. (more…)

To keep our promise to publish a new article from our 30-day guide on the trickiest features of IntelliJ IDEA every week, today we are talking about code folding, a feature that helps you read and understand complex or lenghty pieces of code quickly. Did you know? Did you know that you can toggle folding of code blocks at the caret by invoking the Fold selection action via the shortcut Ctrl + "." (Cmd + "." for Mac). Another useful action is Expand All via Shift + Ctrl + "+" (Shift + Cmd + "+" for Mac) which automatically expands all folded blocks in the current editor. Please read the c

We continue to publish new articles from our 30-day guide on the trickiest features of IntelliJ IDEA. The latest article gives you a list of quick popups available in IntelliJ IDEA that you should know if you want to be more productive. Did you know? The quick popups helps you check additional information related to the symbol at the caret. It is well-known that quick popups are available for a symbol in the editor, but few know that it also works for an item in any other list, via the same shortcuts. (more…)

This week brings a new article from the 30-day guide on the most tricky features of IntelliJ IDEA. Today we will talk about navigation, and how it helps you to faster switch between the pieces of code you are working on, and therefore be more productive. Did you know? When you start IntelliJ IDEA for the first time, all of its setting set to their default values. Over time, as you are using the IDE more and more, you become more familiar with it so you know how to change the default settings for more efficiency. You probably noticed that the navigation bar in the top of the window is usele