Most of you are aware of IntelliJ IDEA smart type completion feature that is invoked with Ctrl+Shift+Space shortcut. If you are not familiar with this feature, I totally recommend you to read the post about it, because this thing is a real developer’s gem. Besides, in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1 release, this […]

If you care about performance of your project and development productivity, there is no any way to overestimate automated refactorings. They are in fact a powerful tool that allows improving your code without spending plenty of time.In addition to IntelliJ IDEA rich set of refactorings, one of the latest EAPs offers a new one, called […]

If you’ve happened to use IntelliJ IDEA’s Analyze Stacktrace feature to investigate someone else’s stack traces, you’ll like the way it is extended in the latest IntelliJ IDEA EAP.You can now paste an entire thread dump to the Analyze | Analyze Stacktrace… dialog. IntelliJ IDEA will present all threads in a readable way and sort […]

While developing any application, you most probably debug it, and I bet my bottom dollar, making this process a little bit easier and faster would not be out of place.In this post, I’d like to tell you about one of the IntelliJ IDEA features — type renderers. They provide you the ability to customize how […]

Maven integration in a Java IDE might not be a surprise for you, but let me show you just one thing, that makes IntelliJ IDEA Maven support prominent and noteworthy.If you have any Maven project, you do not need to perform routine steps while importing it to IntelliJ IDEA and you do not need to […]

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
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It is sometimes the case, you can create plugins you want to preserve for internal use only. With
IntelliJ IDEA you can maintain your own enterprise repository to share your plugins with team members solely.To create a repository, we need a Web server, where our plugins will reside, and a descriptor of available plugins (updatePlugins.xml), […]

If you had worked with IntelliJ IDEA for a while, you’re most likely aware of @Nullable, @NotNull annotations which allow you to formally specify method contracts and validate whether these contracts are met, and @NonNls annotation which is helpful when you want to exclude strings from the internationalization process.However, there’re several cases when direct annotating […]

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, […]

In a team environment, it’s rather easy to run into a conflict of versions, when you are working on the same piece of source code. Now IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.x helps you avoid version conflicts, and keeps a watchful eye on the changes that you and your teammates commit to the repository.
Suppose you open a […]