Brandon Werner

Well my fellow PressHeads, it looks like IntelliJ finally came through for us and approved our project as a worthy of the coveted IntelliJ Open Source Prize and gave us our open source IDE license. JavaPress, for those who don’t know, is a… “is a content management system that runs in a Jakarta Tomcat container with AJAX additions.”

Thanks to everyone who helped and thank you to IntelliJ for approving us and giving us thousands of dollars of software for free! Yes, IntelliJ, you can revel that your logo is squarely in the pages of NetBeans territory, Sun’s java.net!

NOTE: Yes, as many of you will chuckle, on the JavaCast (before I was replaced by a Sun guy and a Google guy) I said in front of 40,000 listeners that IntelliJ was a bare-bones IDE, leading to an uprising in St. Petersberg, Russia that was amazing (not to mention the vocal IntelliJ fan base, about as ravid as the Apple fan base of which I am a part). So, I deicded to download it (we also interviewed IntelliJ’s Rob Harwood) and the more I used it the more I migrated projects to it, in a “well, let’s see what IntelliJ will do with it” kind of thought process. I also got to know a lot of the IntelliJ folks pretty well, and their passion is pretty amazing. Now, I have to admit IntelliJ is the best IDE out there, and I don’t see anyone coming close to the speed or joy that using IntelliJ inspires. Yes, it’s not free. However, it is worth the price.

Also, when I interviewed Bruce Tate from Beyond Java fame (before it was released.. what a scoop!), we talked at length about IntelliJ as well.

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