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This page contains items and links for JetBrains-related news published after January 1, 2011.
News published before January 1, 2011 can be found in the news archive.




13.12.2011 Modular embedded development with mbeddr C previewed
Embedded software developers can now take an early first look at mbeddr C, a modular C version for embedded systems based on JetBrains' Meta Programming System (MPS). The newly released source code includes core files, sample code and documentation, with the actual C extension expected to follow sometime next year.



09.12.2011 Keeping Scala Fresh(er)
The recently-released JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 11 contains Scala support out of the box for both commercial and community editions.









07.12.2011 Another bright IDEA from JetBrains. IntelliJ IDEA 11 released
The IntelliJ team always seem to save all their best enhancements right for their annual update and this year is no exception. IntelliJ IDEA 11 isn't just stocking fillers but the new release really does enhance the development environment tenfold with huge improvements.








30.11.2011 Major New Release of PHP IDE
Designers are well served by tools for creating web pages but developers used to struggle to find a convincing IDE to help them create server-side HTML with PHP. JetBrains PhpStorm extends WebStorm with full-fledged support for PHP. Version 3.0 is now out.








03.11.2011 Review: JetBrains AppCode for Objective C
The best thing I can say about AppCode is that it is a pleasure to use. It does not throw up unnecessary dialogs, it works logically, and the tools are easy to use and configure. I have not always found this to be the case with Xcode, and if you spend a significant amount of your time on Objective C development then I recommend grabbing the trial download to discover if it will speed your work.

02.11.2011 JetBrains WebStorm 2.0 and PHPStorm 2.0 First Look
I respect JetBrains, an IDE company which survives despite intense competition from free tools such as Eclipse and NetBeans. It does so because developers like the products, especially the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE. The tools are focused on coding; there are few visual designers but lots of coding help, such as code completion, refactoring, find usages, and fast navigation.

28.10.2011 JetBrains Offers a New IDE for Objective-C
I keep thinking of JetBrains as a Java tool maker because of the enduring power of its IntelliJ IDEA code-centric Java IDE. But that's a mistake. The Prague-based company makes tools for software developers, some of whom are Java jocks. That fact was brought home to me this week by Eugenia Dubova, JetBrains' indefatigable marketing manager, who let me know that her company has added another dev tool to its ever growing product catalog.




20.09.2011 Scala designer cites goals, directions for JVM alternative
InfoWorld: Are you familiar with the Kotlin language from JetBrains? I believe they looked at Scala and wanted to go their own way. Do you have any perspective on Kotlin at all?
Odersky: Yes, I've looked at it. I think it has elements of both Scala and C# in a new language. It's not out yet, so to comment further I think we should all wait when it's out and we have something concrete to try.

06.09.2011 Free Tool: JetBrains YouTrack
The latest version supports customizable workflows (using the free workflow editor) and better support for mobile devices, among other goodies. For developers who hate taking their hands off the keyboard, YouTrack supports both a command language and a search language that allow you to bypass the UI and just do what you want.

23.08.2011 Meta Programming System 2.0
JetBrains is slowly but surely becoming more than just a purveyor of programming tools and widgets. Its recent foray into a new JVM language in the form of Kotlin is too young to see how it will fare in the rough and ready world of neonate languages, but its Meta Programming System is old and successful enough to have just been released in version 2.0 - and it is open source.
Perhaps the most important thing about MPS is that it brings language extension within the grasp of the average programmer who isn't a language specialist.

22.08.2011 Kotlin project adds another language option to JVM
InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently interviewed Dmitry Jemerov, JetBrains development lead, to discuss Kotlin and why the company is working on it.

22.08.2011 JetBrains releases Meta Programming System 2.0
JetBrains' Meta Programming System (MPS) offers a development environment that implements the Language-Oriented Programming (LOP) paradigm. Instead of using a given programming language to solve a problem, developers initially design a custom, domain-specific language that ideally allows them to implement the required functionality in a better way

05.08.2011 Bringing Java 7 Support to IntelliJ IDEA 10.5
Back in February, JetBrains announced that the major focus of their 10.5 release, would be Java 7 support. In this interview, we speak to IntelliJ IDEA senior software developer, Anna Kozlova, to find out more about implementing the new Java 7 language features in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.

01.08.2011 Strange Loop #3 — Kotlin
In episode #3, Ken Sipe (@kensipe) interviews Andrey Breslav (@abreslav) from JetBrains about the new JVM language, Kotlin.

25.07.2011 Kotlin — another Java alternative?
A quick look at the syntax description reveals a very nice modern language but for a language to become popular and hence viable it needs something more.

InfoQ

23.07.2011 JetBrains introduces the new JVM language Kotlin
It remains to be seen how many software developers will consider Kotlin as their language of choice. At least, the reactions of many developers prove that Kotlin has at least entered the race for the next new cool language.

Info World

22.07.2011 JetBrains readies JVM-based language
"We've looked at all of the existing JVM languages, and none of them meet our needs. Scala has the right features, but its most obvious deficiency is very slow compilation," said Dmitry Jemerov, JetBrains development lead, on Friday. "Other languages don't meet some of our requirements in terms of the feature set. Moreover, the initial reception of Kotlin shows that the community trusts JetBrains and expects it to do a good job in terms of language implementation and tooling support."

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21.07.2011 JVM Language Summit 2011
Project Kotlin, presented by JetBrains developers, Andrey Breslav and Dmitry Jemerov, has definitely created a lot of buzz by now. <...> I do not have any strong opinion on the project yet - need to study it a bit and compare to other languages (read Scala) but one thing I quite sure about is that the IDE support should be top class.







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16.05.2011 What is ReSharper


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30.05.2011 TeamCity 6.5: Enhanced Integration with Git & Mercurial, .NET Improvements
JetBrains has announced the release of TeamCity 6.5. The new release comes with a new look and has improved integration with Git and Mercurial along with several improvements especially for .NET developers. Moreover the free Professional Edition now allows unlimited users, although with a limit on build definitions.

DrDobbs

27.05.2011 JetBrains has announced the public availability of its TeamCity 6.5 continuous integration and build management server.
"TeamCity Professional Edition is now rid of many previous limitations," said JetBrains in a press statement. "Small and medium development teams can now run free TeamCity with an unlimited number of registered users, support for LDAP, and flexible per-project roles and permissions." The company's utopian vision of the future is for developer teams and startups around the globe to be able adopt continuous integration practices at literally zero expense.

InfoWorld

26.05.2011 JetBrains upgrades continuous integration server
Continuous integration has been in the news lately because of the controversy over the forked Hudson project, recently contributed to Eclipse by Oracle. But JetBrains believes it offers more functionality with TeamCity than Hudson and its forked counterpart, Jenkins. "With Jenkins and Hudson, you've got very limited functionality out of the box," and must download more plug-ins, said Max Feldman, TeamCity marketing manager at JetBrains.

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17.05.2011 IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 With Full Java 7 Support
Groovy 1.8 and Spring 3.1 are also supported, and 'Diff Tools' has been added for comparing local directories and database objects.


13.05.2011 JetBrains Offers Peek at .NET Decompiler dotPeek
JetBrains on May 11 unveiled dotPeek, its new free decompiling tool for .NET. The company will start regularly publishing pre-release builds of the software as part of dotPeek Early Access Program, or EAP, JetBrains officials said.

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11.05.2011 Early Access Program Starts for JetBrains' Free .NET Decompiler
JetBrains is introducing a free decompiler, and decompiling functionality in the upcoming ReSharper 6.0, as its competitor Red Gate Software attempts to move beyond a freemium business model and charge $35 for the former community edition of .NET Reflector 7, which shipped in March.

01.05.2011 Visual Basic and C# at the Crossroads
Ilya Ryzhenkov, .NET tools product manager for tools provider JetBrains Inc., is skeptical. "Compiler as a service is a technology that will allow simple things to be done easily, but complex things will be extremely hard or near impossible," he says. "No doubt with this release we'll see a lot of simple one-two-feature extensions popping up, much the same way we saw with Visual Studio 2010 Extensions. However, this usually leads to compatibility hell, an increase in the number of crashes, slow performance of the IDE and bugs."

20.04.2011 New NetBeans offers Java 7
Mills claimed that NetBeans 7 is the first open source IDE to support the new Java (though JetBrains offers a beta of its IntelliJ IDE that also supports the draft specification).

06.04.2011 Boost Your Coding Productivity
Put simply, you're either a huge fan of JetBrains' ReSharper or of DevExpress's CodeRush. Personally, I don't care which one you use. But if you're a professional developer and don't use one of these solutions, then you're cutting yourself insanely short?and spending way too much time doing stuff you don't have to do.
Personally, I'm a big fan of ReSharper. And while I originally grabbed it for its refactoring support, unit testing augmentations, and its huge amount of other additional UI helps, tweaks, and productivity boosts, one of the things I love the most about ReSharper is its support for templates that make it so much easier for me to quickly code repetitive tasks. In fact, I use ReSharper's templating functionality all the time when creating new repositories and when creating individual methods within those repositories?because ReSharper's support for "surround-with" templates gives me the ability to easily tackle some custom considerations around caching that I leverage pretty heavily in many repository methods.

InfoQ

05.04.2011 Jetbrains announced appCode (CIDR) EAP - an Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS development
We at JetBrains admire what Apple has done to desktop apps and more generally to a consumer targeted software. They're setting new interaction design quality standards. But this is not the case when it comes to developers software, in our opinion. So we see a great opportunity for JetBrains to bring its development tools expertise to this emerging market of developers, who know how a great software should look, who care about their productivity and code quality.

InfoQ

04.04.2011 Guardian.co.uk: Switching from Java to Scala
InfoQ: What IDEs do you use for development? What is Scala IDE support like?
Web Platform Development Team Lead Graham Tackley, Guardian: We use Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA 10, some of us use the community edition and some use the ultimate edition. The Scala plugin is pretty good but not perfect. Code completion, find usages, and similar navigation nearly always works just fine. It's not as good as Java at red highlighting code that isn't valid, and we had some problems with it finding ScalaTest test methods, but other than that we were in our familiar environment working as we always had, just in a much more powerful language.


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14.03.2011 Nejlepší nástroje na programování v Javě
Přes tyto nedostatky je IntelliJ výborným IDE, ukazujícím, jak s výtečně zvládnutým řemeslem lze udělat komerční produkt, který úspěšně soupeří s bezplatnou konkurencí.

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14.03.2011 Facebook Holds Weekend Hackathon
In the end, Russian Petr Mitrichev lifted the trophy and won the $5,000 prize. He used Java and ran IntelliJ IDEA on the Microsoft OS, reported The Register.

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12.03.2011 Ruskie Java coder lifts inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup
Chinese developer Tiancheng Lou coded on Windows with Visual Basic, and Russian Petr Mitrichev, opting for Java, ran IntelliJ IDEA on the Microsoft OS.
"[IntelliJ] runs the same on all platforms," he told us, "so I don't care what OS I use." After two hours, only three coders produced answers to all three problems, including Tiancheng Lou and Petr Mitrichev; four finished two; and ten finished one.

ADT Magazine

28.02.2011 Scrappy JetBrains Releases PhpStorm 2
I try not to let my fanboy tendencies leak into my coverage of tools and tech, but I have to admit to a fondness for JetBrains, the Prague-based maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, one of the relatively few such tools to survive the Eclipse Juggernaut.



InfoQ

24.02.2011 Oracle Announces the JDK 7 Developer Preview but Licensing Concerns Persist
JetBrains, the Prague-based creator of IntelliJ IDEA, have stated that the major focus of IntelliJ 10.5 will be Java 7 support. The new version is scheduled for a general availability release this Spring, but the Early Access Preview program starts in a few weeks. The company is inviting anyone interested to download the source code for the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition from the JetBrains download page. According to the company's blog "all of the new language features will be fully supported across the product, with code completion, code inspections, quick fixes and so on".

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24.02.2011 Java 7 im Soll: Oracle veröffentlicht Developer Preview für JDK 7
"...auch die tschechische Softwarefirma JetBrains hat für die nächste Version ihrer IDE IntelliJ IDEA Unterstützung für das JDK 7 angekündigt."

ADT Magazine

23.02.2011 IntelliJ IDE To Provide Full Java 7 Support
JetBrains, the Prague-based creator of code-centric Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA, this week took the wraps off the upcoming version of its flagship development environment. According to the company, the major focus of IntelliJ 10.5 will be Java 7 support.







InfoWorld

14.02.2011 Google Web Toolkit adds HTML5 canvas backing.
Also in the app dev space, JetBrains upgrades its PHP IDE "JetBrains is releasing its PHPStorm 2.0 PHP IDE. It features support for PHP 5.3 namespaces and closures, ECMAscript 5, and Less and SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) extensions for cascading style seets. Less features a dynamic stylesheet language while SASS extends CSS with nested rules, variables, and other features.


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28.01.2011 Oracle pulls Ruby on Rails support from NetBeans 7.0
JetBrains, makers of the commercial Ruby IDE RubyMine, said in a tweet, that it welcomed NetBeans Ruby users and would be announcing some "great news" soon on its pricing page. RubyMine is already available for free to developers of open source projects.

computerwoche.de

20.01.2011 Die besten Java-IDEs. JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3
Es wird vor Augen geführt, dass professionelle, kommerzielle Programmierung durchaus zu sehr guter Software führt, die sogar mit kostenlosen Alternativen konkurrieren kann.

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03.01.2011 Dmitry Jemerov at Dr. Dobb's TV
Dr. Dobb's Mike Riley discusses the latest improvements in JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 10 with JetBrains development lead Dmitry Jemerov


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