Meet JetBrains at the Ajax Experience 2006, the international event for Ajax community that will take place in May 10-12th at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California.
“Ajax with pleasure” presentation will be made by Mike Aizatsky, the team leader of the Web and Enterprise Development Department of IntelliJ IDEA. The presentation will […]

A nice Live Template for Swing developers was posted at publicobject.com. The template can save you a lot of time when prototyping Swing code.
If you want to find more live templates examples, take a look at the Defining a Live Template for Null-Check post and its comments.

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The default VM options for IntelliJ IDEA may be not optimal when your project contains more than 10000 classes and developers often try to change the default options to minimize IntelliJ IDEA hangtime. But sometimes the changes make things even worse.
So, how to configure IntelliJ IDEA VM options optimally? That’s not so easy question […]

Manning Publications has announced that they will extend the introductory discount offer on “IntelliJ IDEA in Action” until May 31, 2006. For information about the special discount, visit the IntelliJ IDEA Developer Center.
To purchase the book at the special discount price, go to www.manning.com. During the checkout process be sure to enter this special discount […]

About a year ago, JetBrains started a licensing program for Open Source projects. In short, developers of active and vital Open Source projects can request and get free IntelliJ IDEA licenses.
Today more than 300 Open Source projects received these licences. Among these projects there are a lot of Apache participants including members of Ant […]

When you have cleaned up unnecessary dependencies, you certainly don’t want them to appear again. But if you work in a team, this is very probable to happen. So, how to avoid illegal dependencies?
Of course, you can periodically analyze and clean up the code as it is described in Analyzing Code Dependencies (part I). But […]

Atlassian has published the results of Codegeist Competition for which JetBrains is a sponsor. In total, thirty-one new JIRA and Confluence plugins were submitted.
All winners get free IntelliJ IDEA licences. Also all participants get 40% discount coupons for IntelliJ IDEA personal licences, thanks to Alex Tkachman, our marketing director.
Our congratulations to everyone who entered the […]

Those who want to work with Struts from IntelliJ IDEA can try Struts Assistant plugin. It not only adds Web flow diagrams, structure tree and property tables to IntelliJ IDEA, but also provides well-known productivity features such as completion, navigation, highlighting, and even refactorings for Struts, Tiles, and Validator files.
You can find more information about […]

If you have a large project with several modules using a set of libraries, any operation that requires an essential structural change can be a disaster. For example, you may decide to stop using one of the libraries, or extract API, or simply extract a new module. In any of these cases, you need to […]

IntelliJ IDEA version 5.1.1 is now available for download at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/.
This release fixes a number of bugs and addresses some performance and cosmetics issues. For more information, see online Release Notes.
The update is a free maintenance release for licensed users of IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 and 5.1.

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