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Ten Tips for Installing Plugins in Eclipse Galileo

Eclipse Galileo (3.5) has a shiny new plugin installation dialog box. In fact, the whole process went through a complete re-factoring.

2 replies - 9168 views - 07/08/09 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Caught Between Two IDEs

I seem to be caught between two IDEs: Eclipse and IntelliJ. I abandoned Eclipse a couple of years back, partly based on wide spread recommendations from many...

8 replies - 5461 views - 07/03/09 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

IntelliJ IDEA 9M1: Advanced Support for Newest Technologies

Last week JetBrains made an important announcement: the next version of IntelliJ IDEA has reached its first milestone. With features like

0 replies - 2092 views - 07/01/09 by vaclav in Announcements

NetBeans 6.7 Finally Released

Since today the final version of NetBeans 6.7 can be downloaded here. And do not forget to look here for a feature overview. If you tried the release...

12 replies - 6744 views - 06/30/09 by Peter Karich in Articles

Eclipse Galileo - This Is How To Release Software

Today marks the much anticipated release of Eclipse Galileo, or Eclipse 3.5. Once again, it's striking how such a large set of projects across the developer...

7 replies - 9573 views - 06/24/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

The Best Kept Secret in the JDK: VisualVM

It's amazing the things that are right in front of you that you don't realise. VisualVM is probably the best example of this in the Java community. Everytime...

24 replies - 42587 views - 05/28/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Five Reasons To Be Excited About the Eclipse Ecosystem

As a developer who depends on the Eclipse platform daily, there are a number of projects that I couldn't do without in the Eclipse eco-system. I'm not talking...

4 replies - 5958 views - 05/15/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

IntelliJ IDEA Refcard Released: Meet The Author

This week we have released our updated IntelliJ IDEA Refcard, with tips and instructions on how to get started with the popular IDE, along with useful keyboard...

4 replies - 2457 views - 05/06/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Upgrading to IntelliJ IDEA 8.1? Get this cheat sheet!

Upgrading to IntelliJ 8.1? Click here to get a free PDF and see what you can do with IntelliJ! IntelliJ is a commercial Java IDE.

2 replies - 2828 views - 05/04/09 by lyndsey in Announcements

Getting Started With WikiText

Documentation is the bane of all developers. Nobody likes to write documentation, but most people know we need it. Even more so in Open Source projects. If you...

23 replies - 5576 views - 04/24/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

One Small Step Towards Reducing License Proliferation

License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years.

3 replies - 2183 views - 04/17/09 by Mike Milinkovich in Articles

Java on Google App Engine - Time To Play In The Cloud

It's been a long time coming, but today Google has announced that Java will be available on their App Engine. While the SDK is available for everyone to...

3 replies - 6405 views - 04/08/09 by James Sugrue in News

DSL Adoption with JetBrains MPS

DSLs, or Domain Specific Languages, have been known in software engineering for many years. Despite this fact, they aren't widely used today. In this article...

7 replies - 6642 views - 04/07/09 by solomatov in Articles

Latest on Review Tools

Well, things we‘re going ok with Jupiter, then my review file somehow got detached from the perspective. I see the file in the project, but there are no...

0 replies - 2701 views - 04/03/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

JUnit Plugin: Better But Still Neglected

In his book The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric Raymond tried to lay out the ‘code‘ of the open source world (so Hemingway), and notes that the darkest taboo...

2 replies - 3079 views - 03/30/09 by Rob Williams in Articles