Some of you may not be aware of the fact that IntelliJ IDEA constantly tracks any changes you make to the project files. On the other hand, people who have used it for a while, call this feature a real life saver. The fact is, that IntelliJ IDEA maintains an internal changelist every time you’re […]

Ruby plugin for IntelliJ IDEA was recently beefed up with several new features:

Quick creating of controller actions with alt+insert
Go to action from view template with gutter navigation icon
Go to view template from action with gutter navigation icon
Ruby and Rails Live Templates

See the Live Rails Demo that shows the latest features and improvements […]

The latest version of TeamCity is now available at Download page.
This release is mainly aimed at improving product quality based on your bug reports and feedback, which we really appreciate. We have also added several features that make your team development process smarter:

Support for TestNG tests for Ant build runner
“Stacktrace navigation” from TeamCity to IntelliJ […]

The live demo showing the enhanced GUI Designer (one of the announced features of the IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release) is published at Javalobby. The presentation is made by Dmitry Jemerov, JetBrains developer who actually made all the new GUI designer features. Learn how to design Swing UI with pleasure!

Technorati tags: Swing, GUI Desinger, […]

IntelliJ IDEA always strives for innovations. So, the innovative Google Web Toolkit is supported in forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release. Moreover, you can try it right now - the latest EAP version of IntelliJ IDEA comes bundled with GWT Studio plugin and provides general functionality. See the GWT demo to get the first impression and […]

On March, 15th JetBrains made presentations on Team Server and IntelliJ IDEA at Google. The live video of these two presentations is now available at GoogleVideo.
Here what Alex Tkachman, JetBrains marketing director who also participated at the presentations, says at his blog:
” First talk is done by Dmitry Jemerov and dedicated to our new […]

During the last three months JetBrains created a series of Flash demos. Two of them are “presentation demos” showing the main functionality of IntelliJ IDEA: IntelliJ IDEA Overview and Web and Enterprise Development with IntelliJ IDEA.
Other demos are “tutorials” that demostrate and explain how to use certain IntelliJ IDEA features: i18n support, Creating AJAX […]

It is widely announced that the recently released version 5.1 of IntelliJ IDEA provides an “industry-leading i18n support”. But what does that mean? Well, this phrase covers not just one particular feature, but the whole set of enhancements, improvements, and new features for making internationalization faster and easier.
First of all, the “Hard coded strings” inspection […]

No one can create a tool that does everything you want it to do. That’s why so many IDE’s provide some public API for writing plugins. IntelliJ IDEA is also one of them.
But having an API is not all. How to start writing plugins for IntelliJ IDEA? What a plugin can and cannot add […]