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Guys from YouTrack are working pedal to metal to release a new version of their fastest bug tracker. Just today they have published its roadmap, which is surely worth checking out: new features, improvements,—a very comprehensive overview of what you can expect from the future YouTrack release. You may as well read the official YouTrack site for more information, demos, docs, and other interesting reading.

Flash on the Beach, to be more exact, and you’re most welcome to see us there!

Our booth is open Sept 26-29, and we’ll be showing live all that what makes IntelliJ IDEA a perfect choice for Flex development. New features, improvements, tiny bits that make it all work exactly the way you need—in a series of demos from guys who made it all work.

Cozy, friendly atmosphere, first-hand information from our Flex team and, much more—not to mention that we’ll also host a lotto-quiz where everyone have a chance to win their very own IntelliJ IDEA licenses!

See you there with pleasure!

September 21st, JetBrains will host a free community party at the 21st Amendment Brewery Restaurant in San Francisco. Meet with friends and enjoy lively conversation in a relaxed atmosphere over free food and drinks, just a few blocks from the Moscone Center. The party begins at 8PM and we welcome all JetBrains fans to join in the action, as you do not need to be registered or attending JavaOne to take part.

Be prepared to unleash your inner geek and go for the top prizes in our Be Wiser contest. This is a great opportunity to cash in on your knowledge of IntelliJ IDEA and JetBrains to win fantastic prizes including: gadgets, licenses, gift certificates and more. There will be a wide array of questions varying in degrees of difficulty, so participate, have fun and learn something new in the process.
Nobody will go home empty handed as we will have plenty of our 10th Birthday t-shirts available.

Please make note of the party schedule:
8:00pm – 8:30pm: Arrival, Appetizers
8:45pm – 10:00pm: Contest
10:00pm - ? : Food, Drinks, Relax

Registration is required and space is limited so we recommend that you register immediately.
Please be sure to print and bring with you to the party, the Eventbrite ticket you receive via email. If you have any questions or issues please feel free to stop by the JetBrains booth at JavaOne or contact (robert) (DOT) (demmer) (AT) (jetbrains) (DOT) (com).

We hope to see you there!

For some time now, we’ve had requests from the community to have a central point where people could have access to Screencasts and other Video related material that we provide. In response to that, we are happy to announce the availability of JetBrainsTV (Beta!).

The content is organized by Channels, currently one per product, although we will be expanding that to include other topics in the near future. Most of this content, if not all, is tagged with keywords, allowing you to easily locate topics you are interested in. In addition, the cross-cutting nature of the tags allow you to discover new things, for instance functionality that you knew existed in IntelliJ IDEA but weren’t aware that RubyMine also provided.

Content can be voted and commented on, neither of which require you to create an account. Voting is anonymous and comments can be left as a Guest user or using other social media accounts such as Twitter, Disqus or OpenId (obviously based on level of Spam we might have to adjust this in the future).

Contributing content

JetBrains TV is not only a platform to offer centralized screencasts, but also a chance for community members to contribute. By signing in (click on the link in the top right-hand corner), you can upload your own videos, providing you a platform for other community members to see your work. The sign-up process is easy, in fact, you might not even need to create an account. Since it uses the consolidated JetBrains account, if you’ve contributed to the forums or the JetBrains developer community, you’re good to go!

Although it is still in Beta, there’s quite a lot of content on there already and we hope that by opening it up to the community early, we can improve things based on your valuable feedback.

Enjoy!

PS. To support our love for dogfooding we’ve implemented the TV site with PHP and Drupal using PhpStorm IDE. PhpStorm team has received a good bunch of feedback they wanted.

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 brings you a new feature that simplifies storing of your credentials: Password Safe. With it, you can store passwords, encrypted with master password in IntelliJ IDEA either permanently in application settings, or temporary, in memory until you close IntelliJ IDEA.

Passwords in memory are stored while you are working with IntelliJ IDEA, if disk storage is selected, passwords are encrypted and stored in a database. Before database is accessed for the first time, a master password is requested. It is also possible to change master password or reset it, but then you are losing all passwords encrypted with password you are resetting.

Note that on Windows systems there is an option to encrypt master password using user credentials. This is less secure, but more convenient option. In which case master password is stored in an encrypted form in the application settings, and it can be accessed by any application that is run from under this user account. The value of this option can be specified using reset and change password dialog.

Git integration uses this functionality to store SSH passwords and passphrases. If your plugin needs to store passwords, you can make use of the PasswordSafe component or just use PasswordSafePromptDialog that automatically remembers entered passwords in the password database.

If you missed Vaclav Pech speech at JAX 2010, here’s your chance to hear it right now. In this presentation he’s discussing common coding pitfalls such as possible NPE, unreachable code, and explains how they can be easily avoided.

While IntelliJ IDEA 9 aka Maia is knocking on the door, our development team just released a fresh update to IntelliJ IDEA 8 — v8.1.4.

Read release notes, download a copy for your platform, and don’t forget — our Free Upgrade Program is still running!

It finally happened! IntelliJ IDEA 9 is now publicly available in its official Beta state.

In this release you will find almost everything we have prepared for IntelliJ IDEA 9:

• Faster environment with background-enabled indexes
• Improved code understanding, including dead code detection and extended folding options
• Cleaner and more productive coding thanks to improved completion, intention actions, and more efficient UI
• Full Java EE 6 support plus GlassFish 3, EJB 3.1, JPA 2.0, Servlet 3.0, JSF 2.0
• Language polyglot arsenal extended with PHP, Scala and La Clojure, and improved Groovy
• New Web frameworks support: Tapestry, GAE, GWT 1.7 and Spring 3.0 with Spring Security
• OSGi Application Development
• Enhanced Maven support
• Android development facilities,
• Better Flex Development, and more.

You can read more about improvements, get the fresh release, try it all for yourself, and submit your feedback via YouTrack, our brand-new issue tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/IDEA

Also, don’t forget that our Free Upgrade Program is still effective and you can buy IntelliJ IDEA 9 even before it’s out!

Develop with Pleasure!