As a developer, you certainly get exceptions from users or QA engineers. And unlike the exceptions that you get in the debug mode, they don’t have those nice links that help you to navigate to source.

My article about how refactoring can help you develop and maintain Web projects has finally been published at TheServerSide.
I covered various aspects of refactoring as it applies to HTML, CSS, XML and JSP, which are the typical compound that glues up any decent Web project.
Of course I used IntelliJ IDEA to demonstrate all the […]

JetBrains has announced the list of new features in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 some time ago, but people often ask us where to find or how to use a certain feature. Probably, in this case Reviewer’s Guide can help. Don’t be afraid of the document title, since it is actually an overview of the new functionality […]

Running a beta of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 on a preview release of JDK 1.6.0

It is always a pleasure to get a positive feedback on the products we develop, especially enterily new ones. We really appreciate the Continuous Integration Revisited post, where the author describes TeamCity’s features and his own experience. He noted that TeamCity’s installation and configuration was really quick and transparent, pointed at the benefits of […]

IntelliJ IDEA features excellent support for XML development. Smart editor with code completion, error highlighting and other productivity aimed features help create efficient code. However, there is no limit in perfecting the development environment.
XPathView plugin extends IntelliJ IDEA XML and XSL support by providing for:

Instant XPath evaluation
Get the fully qualified XPath expression that identifies […]

While you develop and maintain your product, the framework and API on which your product is based on is also being developed and upgraded. This is why the other day you come to a point when you need to switch to a new API.

Peter Gromov, one of IntelliJ IDEA developers, shares his knowledge about utilizing IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 XML DOM power in the field of plugin authoring.
Peter wrote the article that describes the key principles of working with XML data through this DOM and quickly outlines how it can be used to empower and simplify plugin development with […]