ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

10 Helpful Hints on Moving from Eclipse to IDEA

On monday, Hamlet D'Arcy posted a great blog entitled "10 Helpful Hints on Moving from Eclipse to IDEA"... Unfortunately, due to technical...

0 replies - 675 views - 02/21/08 by Dave Booth in Blogs

Using External Annotations

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...

5 replies - 3270 views - 02/19/08 by Ann Oreshnikova in Tips and Tricks

Automate Grails App Tests with TeamCity - Part 2

As I showed in my previous post, TeamCity can build Grails applications for you, while you keep coding, relax or sleep. We talked about the command-line...

0 replies - 3573 views - 02/13/08 by vaclav in News

Using Shelves for Storing Local Changes

Suppose a brilliant idea strikes you, when it is too risky or too late in the process to try implementing it straight away… or you want to share a new...

3 replies - 2849 views - 02/13/08 by Irina Megorskaya in News

How to use Intellij IDEA and Maven 2 together for debugging and context help

Latest version of Intellij IDEA has excellent integration with Maven 2. I want to explain one tip that could help you to gain productivity.When you debug with...

9 replies - 5073 views - 02/11/08 by Alexander Shvets in Tips and Tricks

Using Local History to Restore Deleted Files

Have you ever experienced this disappointment, when you suddenly find out that some of your most indispensable files are lost? You might have fallen into...

0 replies - 2541 views - 02/08/08 by Irina Megorskaya in News

Bucking Trend, JetBrains to Raise Price of IntelliJ IDEA

If you're thinking of buying IntelliJ IDEA, then you may want to do it before February 15th. According to an email seen on the Java Posse's Google group (and...

13 replies - 4059 views - 02/07/08 by Rick Ross in News

Automate Grails App Builds with TeamCity

The Grails framework has reached maturity with the recent release of its 1.0 version. As Grails is becoming increasingly popular and more and more enterprise...

0 replies - 3826 views - 02/06/08 by vaclav in News

Creating Flex Applications with IntelliJ IDEA

We’ve got great news for those who were waiting for an easier way to create rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex using IntelliJ IDEA.Many advanced...

4 replies - 1876 views - 02/06/08 by Ann Oreshnikova in News

Set Conditional Breakpoints in IDEA

So yesterday I was attempting to debug an issue in a batch processing module within one of our applications. In short, an assertion was failing deep within...

5 replies - 2589 views - 02/05/08 by Matt Stine in Tips and Tricks

Avoid Broken Code in Version Control: Use "Pre-tested Commit"

How often do you blame colleagues that have submitted changes to the repository and gone home, while the build turned out to be broken? Wouldn't you like a...

2 replies - 4253 views - 02/01/08 by Elizaveta Revyakina in Tips and Tricks

Winners of IntelliJ IDEAL Plug-in Contest Announced

Yesterday the results of JetBrains' annual contest for the best plug-in to IntelliJ IDEA were announced. 7 plug-ins were selected by the jury composed...

1 replies - 2818 views - 02/01/08 by Ann Oreshnikova in News

Taking responsibility for broken software builds: a part of daily team communication

Even though the software development team may comprise of highly-motivated professionals, they can still introduce inconsistencies in their code, and both the...

0 replies - 834 views - 01/29/08 by Elizaveta Revyakina in Tips and Tricks

What's going on at Beto Software?

I recently noticed Hibero was no longer on the IntelliJ Companion Products website, and also noticed that Beto Software is discontinuing both Hibero and Teresa...

0 replies - 474 views - 01/29/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News

Analyzing Dependencies with Dependency Structure Matrix

When working on complex software projects it’s especially important to track dependencies between project parts. You might encounter too complicated...

0 replies - 2058 views - 01/25/08 by Ann Oreshnikova in News