Well 2020 is over, phew! And holy cow, I know I'm late with this month's Annotated (because I'm a real human being and like to take vacation) but even so there's a lot of stuff in this month's edition! There's more Java and Tech articles than usual and a bunch of Java news. Hang on in there for 2021, remember to continue being kind to each other, and to yourself. (more…)

The end of 2020 is just around the corner. What a year! Let’s look back at the past 12 months and recap the best IntelliJ IDEA: how2pro tips and tricks. (more…)

The first episode of JetBrains Connect is now up on YouTube!🎉 JetBrains Connect is our new YouTube series about people, technology, and learning. It brings experts and thought leaders together to talk about important topics from across the technology landscape. Each month, special guests will join our host, Paul Everitt, and experts from JetBrains, to discuss and debate today's modern technologies. In contrast to the webinars featuring product-specific demonstrations that we regularly host on the JetBrainsTV YouTube channel, JetBrains Connect covers broader topics relevant to the IT in

December is here, and if you celebrate the mid-winter holidays (or midsummer if you're on that side of the equator) you're probably thinking ahead to that. 2020 has not been... optimal... for many. Christmas (or equivalent) will likely not look the way we expected, or are used to. We have an "opportunity" (haven't you always hated boss-speak, it's not an "opportunity", it actually is a "problem") to try new things, create new traditions, or to simply take the chance to put less pressure on ourselves this year. Let's face it, we deserve a break. (more…)

In good news, banning myself from reading the newspapers and scrolling through Twitter on my phone at night means my levels of anxiety are significantly lower this month. In bad news, it means less content for November's Java Annotated Monthly. The silver lining is that you can have a more relaxed November, with less stuff-you-have-to-read. (more…)

In this blog, we're going to look at how to create an IntelliJ IDEA project from existing code in a GitHub repository. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBVOAnygcZw 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. Clone a GitHub Repository to Our Local Machine The first thing we need to do is to clone the git repository to our local machine. In the video, we used this Intelli

A little bit of October's computing history: In 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP! Thank goodness for the chance to get away from Windows 98 & ME. Meanwhile, Apple was busy working on consumer products and had released the iPod. .NET news .NET Foundation All Hands - The .NET Foundation is holding its first ever public All Hands meeting. Guess who's hosting it? That's right, yours truly! Join in on October 13, ask questions and see what's going on in the world of .NET! Repo experience survey results NET Core Releases and Support Highlights The future of .NET Standard Announcing .NET 5.0

This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their experience and gave tips and tricks on how to get more from the language. This got us thinking, and we decided to do a deep dive into the data to discover once and for all what the common state of Java is, and to help answer some of your burning questions. Some of what we have found may come as no surprise, but there are some very unexpected insights too. With Java 15 released this week, we decid

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 Trisha Gee talking to us everything that's happened since Java 8. Java 8 was a huge release for Java, finally bringing some much anticipated functional behaviours to the Java language. Java 9 followed up and although the module system is really interesting for certain types of ap

I'm finishing off this newsletter while also hosting the JetBrains Technology Day for Java, so this newsletter is sadly too late for you to join the live stream! But, you're in luck, because the videos will be available to view on YouTube by the end of the month. However, just because we were busy with this event doesn't mean the rest of the world stopped. You can find a summary of the interesting Java, JVM and community news here in your July Java Annotated Monthly. (more…)

At the end of June, we had a live coding webinar hosted by our developer advocate Trisha Gee and presented by Marcus Hellberg, who leads the developer community team at Vaadin. During his screen-cast, he created a full-stack Java app using a combination of Spring Boot and Vaadin's Java API. We recorded it for you, so if you missed it, now you can watch it and learn how to boost your productivity with the useful shortcuts and fun tricks Marcus shares. Watch the recording below to see the whole workflow of app development with Vaadin and IntelliJ IDEA. Here’s the Q&A follow-up.

We’re happy to announce a new webinar on Productive Web Development in Java with IntelliJ IDEA, Spring Boot, and Vaadin. Join us Tuesday, June 30, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST In this webinar, we cover tips and tricks to help you become a more productive web app developer. We build a small web app using Vaadin's Java API and Spring Boot. We show you how to set up IntelliJ IDEA to automatically reload your app and browser as you develop, and cover our favorite shortcuts and hacks for productive and enjoyable web app development in Java. (more…)