An integrated development environment (IDE) or interactive development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
In my previous article, I worked on code quality in NetBeans IDE. In this article, I am using IntelliJ IDEA to improve my Java code. IDEA has plugins to support PMD and FindBugs and SonarCube but it also comes with its own static analysis capabilities. The Analyse menu gives you the option to Inspect code…
One of our New Year’s resolutions for 2018 at IDRsolutions was to give the code base a thorough review and tidy. It has been written over the last 15 years and there are lots of areas which can be improved in 2018 (using newer Java constructs, rewriting with hindsight, repaying technical debt, removing used code,…
With many IDEs out there available for developers, there is a lot of debate on which IDE is the best. In this article, I will be talking about why IDRsolutions uses the NetBeans IDE for development. Configurations and formats can be shared in the company NetBeans’ settings and configurations are saved into a config file…
At IDR Solutions I spend the majority of my time using the NetBeans IDE to write and modify the code on our Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter code base, and I thought it would be useful to learn more about the tool I work with everyday. Pointing and clicking can only get you so far and online articles…
At IDR Solutions we spend a lot of our time working with Java as our Java PDF Library, Online Document Viewer and Java Image Library are written in Java. Our developers spend a lot of time buried in Java code and we use a a variety of different IDEs (Intergrated Development Environments) to develop Java code, so I thought…
