Starting up a user group is not easy. But doing stuff you enjoy with peers who share your passion, keeping your knowledge and skills sharp and up to date by learning new things, and meeting other people in your profession, makes it all totally worth it. At JetBrains, we are a team of determined developers and enthusiasts; code is our passion. Creating great tools is not possible without inspiration, teamwork, feedback, and attention to detail. Building a user group requires a lot of the same qualities. Among us, we have many keen and experienced user group organizers. In this article, we wan

The Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 2014, GWAB for short, is a free one-day training event organized by and for members of the community. The event takes place March 29th in more than 130 venues worldwide. JetBrains is proud to sponsor this independent event with a free license to be raffled at every location! We had a chat with the five people driving this massive effort: Magnus Mårtensson, Alan Smith, Michael Wood, Mike Martin and our evangelist Maarten Balliauw. Can you tell us a bit more about the event? Maarten: The event is organized by local Windows Azure community enthusiasts and e

JetBrains has announced it will donate a free copy of any two JetBrains products to every student on each school's first place team competing in the 2014 Windward International Collegiate Programming Championship. What are Windward Code Wars? The Windward Programming Championship, also known as Code Wars, is one of the most challenging student hackathons in the world. Teams from top universities around the globe have just eight hours to analyze a problem, create a solution, and test it against the entries of the other programming experts. For a taste of the action, watch this video from Cod

Here at JetBrains we believe in sharing experience, promoting technologies and offering networking opportunities for professional developers and those just learning the craft. To do our part in supporting the community, we sponsor user groups, events and various educational projects. If you run a technology user group, or plan to organize a tech event such as a conference, workshop or codecamp, or teach a class, we’ll be happy to sponsor you. The most up-to-date information about community support can be found in the Supporting the Community section of our website. User Groups and Dev

JetBrains is pleased to sponsor the prestigious student "Code Wars" competition, donating software license prizes to the 2013 Windward International Collegiate Programming Championship. College students from the winning team at each school will receive IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper licenses. What are Windward Code Wars? Code Wars are a day-long programming game that stresses not only coding itself, but encompasses strategy, teamwork and problem-solving in the ultimate "green" online competition. Teams of top computer science college students from respected universities design an artificial i