Raise your hats to Ted for his recent IntelliJ IDEA Tips series! Ted sheds light on the wallflower features of IntelliJ IDEA, as well as new ways of using well-known features and the most beneficial plug-ins.

IntelliJ IDEA Tip: Change Background Color for Read-Only Files
IntelliJ IDEA Plugin of the Week: Describe Key
IntelliJ IDEA Tip: Goto […]

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 […]

There are many development tools in the world. For now, picking the right one that suits for anyone’s requirements is a complicated task. It’s not about the number of supported frameworks, servers or languages. It’s not even about the number of different features implemented in this or that tool. Picking the right tool is about […]

“IDEA simply worked without getting in my way with arbitrary limitations. Where it shines is in the editor, the configurability and the speed at which everything operates: in a “shopping list” of features it might lose to the others, but it wins because the implementation and the design feel more consistent to me.”

Two interesting polls include IntelliJ IDEA and TeamCity among the tools surveyed for John Ferguson Smart’s upcoming book, Java Power Tools.

In the poll for code quality, IntelliJ IDEA currently has the highest rating, likely due to its powerful and easy-to-use static code analysis features, including over 600 code inspections, built-in code coverage analysis, and dependency […]

In the spirit of healthy dialogue, I’m looking for a whole series of reviews of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0. If you know of any reviews or comparisons involving IDEA 6.0, feel free to comment on this post, and include the links!

The good, the bad, and the ugly are all appreciated!

So to get the ball rolling, […]

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 […]

Edit XML with pleasure!

Two nice tricks for navigating to a class by name (Ctrl + N). Find out how to quickly find a class that ends with particular symbols.
How to match the end of a class name in IntelliJ when using Goto Class
Even simpler end of class matching in IntelliJ
Of course, these tricks can be used for other […]

Yet another acknowledgement of IntelliJ IDEA leadership in providing the most intelligent Java IDE - this time from Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of Java Developer’s Journal. He states that “…this IDE outsmarts me big time… JetBrains folks did an amazing job”. To read the full story, visit Yakov Fain’s blog.
He also adds that “…If […]