Archive for January, 2008

Using Local History to restore deleted files

Suppose you have accidentally deleted a file from your project, and want to have it back. Sure, you can restore it using the file system, but IntelliJ IDEA suggests a better way to do it, without leaving the IDE.
This is where IntelliJ IDEA’s local history on the project or folder level comes to help, […]

IntelliJ IDEA: Dependency Analysis with DSM

DSM stands for Dependency Structure Matrix - a method for exploring dependencies between program parts (modules, classes, etc.), and provides a compact matrix representation of a project. It helps you visualize the dependencies between the parts of a project and highlights the information flow within a project.When working on complex software projects it’s especially important […]

UJUG votes for IntelliJ IDEA

Yesterday the Utah Java User Group held its regular monthly meeting, and to shake things up a bit, they decided to make it an IDE Shootout between some popular IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and BEA Workshop. During the meeting, the audience was polled to find out which IDE they were currently using, and […]

IntelliJ IDEA: The Jolt Finalist

Once again we’re happy to let you know that our productivity-focused IDE for Java Developers, IntelliJ IDEA has been listed as a 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Award finalist, in two categories: Web Development Tools and Development Environments.We hope our efforts on creating the most productive and intelligent Java IDE will be appreciated, and IntelliJ […]