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DevCon London 2010 Screencast Contest and JAX London 2010 Screencast Contest at JetBrains TV are over.

Big thanks to all participants who all get their well-deserved passes, namely:

• Anton Arhipov gets a pass to JAX London 2010 for Column Mode Editing with IntelliJ IDEA
• Dmitry Kandalov gets a pass to JAX London 2010 for Regexp Matching and Clipboard Comparison AND Coding Outside-In Using Intentions (both with IntelliJ IDEA.)
• Dmitry Nesteruk gets a pass to DevCon London 2010 for Inferring Types from Usage (with ReSharper.)
• Michał Gibowski gets a pass to JAX London 2010 for Navigation Made Easy, Adjusting Workspace and Refactorings (with IntelliJ IDEA.)
• Stefan Lieser gets a pass to DevCon London 2010 for Using ‘Search with Pattern’ to change old style Assert.AreEqual to new style Assert.That (with ReSharper.)

To get your passes, please drop a line to Jura dot Gorohovsky at jetbrains dot com, and I’ll provide you with registration guidelines.

Once again, thumbs up for taking part in the contest and for helping us fill JetBrains TV with valuable content. We hope you’ll keep it up like this because thousands of JetBrains product users can learn something new from your videos.

Note to everyone: if you haven’t yet submitted a screencast to JetBrains TV, you’re pretty much welcome to do that anytime, and we’ll be happy to help you promote it among our users.

As you know, we’ve got two screencast contests going on at JetBrains TV, and we’re giving out FREE passes to DevCon London and JAX London 2010 to top 10 screencast submitters in each of these contests.

The problem is that we haven’t received enough submissions. Considering that, both screencast contests are extended until September 16!. The new date for announcing winners is September 17.

That means, there’s an additional week for you to submit new screencasts to JetBrains TV and win free passes!

See contest rules and requirements for DevCon London 2010 Screencast Contest and JAX London 2010 Screencast Contest.

Hello all,

This is a post for those of you who’s currently trying (and failing) to buy something from JetBrains, or to submit a bug into our issue tracker, or contribute to one of our community resources.

Today the extreme heat in Europe finally took a toll on us in the form of blackout that temporarily took down a part of our online assets.

While the majority of resources at jetbrains.com is available, our e-shop section is down (which is why you aren’t currently able to order any of our products), as are our bug tracker, wiki, and forums.

We’re regularly getting updates on the recovery progress, and the current (quite rough) recovery time estimate is today evening, 19:00 CET.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we’re really hoping for a quick recovery.

Update! Seems like it’s all over, and on schedule! Power supply is resumed, meaning that YouTrack, Confluence, and JetBrains e-shops are now back online, and our support service is working well!

Since IntelliJ IDEA and all JetBrains products use YouTrack for issue tracking, we thought you’d be interested to know that a new major version of YouTrack has just been released.

What’s different about YouTrack 2.0? Most importantly, with this new version, you can easily migrate issues from your current bug tracker using REST API, create unlimited custom attributes, and use per-issue permissions for fine-grained security. However, this is just a fraction of what the new version brings: to learn more about new features and improvements, visit What’s New.

At the same time, YouTrack remains an intelligent, keyboard-centric, and easy-to-use issue tracker, packing the majority of its functionality in just two controls: a search box and command window.

All in all, if you’re using other bug and issue trackers, it’s probably just the right time to reconsider and take a look at YouTrack more closely, specifically considering that YouTrack 2.0 adds a new Starter Edition, the best fit for small teams priced at only $111! Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition are currently worth $225 and $900, respectively.

You can download YouTrack 2.0, instantly deploy it, and enjoy a free 60-day evaluation. If you’re already using YouTrack, you’re entitled to a free upgrade to YouTrack 2.0: just use your existing license key.

Skills Matter, Europe’s leading Open Source and Agile event organiser, has scheduled some exciting conferences in London, UK.

Since JetBrains is good friends with Skills Matter, our community members enjoy 25% off regular ticket price. And by JetBrains community members, we mean all of you!

To qualify for this special community discount, please quote SM1745-623015-J6B in the Promo Code field when registering for a conference.

Specifically, IntelliJ IDEA users may be interested in attending the following conferences:

• Droidcon (1 day), December 2nd — for Android developers. Register now.
  Speakers include Carl-Gustaf Harroch, Kevin McDonagh, and Andreas Reuterberg.
• Groovy & Grails eXchange (2 days), December 9 & 10 — for Groovy and Grails developers. Register now.
  Speakers include Russ Miles, Guillaume LaForge, Russel Winder, Hans Dockter, Burt Beckwith, Venkat Subramaniam, Dierk Koenig, and Graeme Rocher.
• Open Source in Finance eXchange (1 day), December 15th — for J2EE architects and developers of high performance, scalable systems in financial services. Register now.
  Speakers include Alan Hardy, Rob Davies, Angelo Corsaro, David Vincent, and Alex McGuire.

Other upcoming Skills Matter conferences include:

• Agile Specifications, BDD and Testing eXchange (1 day), November 27th.
• Ruby on Rails eXchange (1 day), London, December 3rd.
• Functional Programming eXchange (1 day), December 7th.

Follow conference news on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter

After a brief test-drive, IntelliJ IDEA has migrated its bugs and feature requests from JIRA to YouTrack, the new bug and issue tracker from JetBrains.

As usual, you can report bugs or feature requests to IDEA: Feedback, and two more IDEA projects are available to the general public to view and comment: IDEA: Backlog and IDEA: Development. See Working with issue tracker for policies regarding each of these tracker projects.

YouTrack 1.0, currently in beta stage, provides the following advantages over competition:

• Keyboard-centric approach lets you use easy shortcuts for major operations, including creating, modifying, and searching for issues. (Read more.)
• Query-based search with intelligent query completion helps you find (and save) any set of issues in seconds, across projects. (Read more.)
  
• Powerful commands enable you to batch-modify multiple selected issues, including fixing, specifying priority, types, writing comments etc. (Read more.)
  

The following resources should help you get used to YouTrack:

• YouTrack features.
• YouTrack demos and documentation.
• YouTrack blog.

YouTrack is also used to track issues in other JetBrains products, including TeamCity, dotTrace, MPS, and Web IDE.

You can download YouTrack beta as a JAR or WAR distribution, and try it out in your own environment.

YouTrack 1.0 final release is scheduled for autumn. Watch YouTrack blog for latest news and tips.