Plugin Development

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