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I've mentioned it a couple of times in passing a couple of times, but never called it out.

For the past several months, JetBrains has been a sponsor of the St. Louis Java Users Group. They have been giving away one(1) IntelliJ IDEA 6 license to a lucky member of the audience every month. They also give one to the presenter.

That doesn't sound to much. After all, Microsoft has been known to give away XBoxes at C#/.NET meetings. But if you think about it. the St. Louis JUG is regularly attended by 20-40 people, some of them already have an IDEA license. We've had people declining the offer because they already have one at least twice. (I have to decline the offer last month when I presented on JavaFX, because I already bought an IDEA 6 license.)

So come to the JUG meeting this evening, when Jay Meyer (of Harpoon Technologies Inc.) will talk about tools and techniques that developers can use write a secure application from scratch, or test an already-installed application.

The line-up the the next few months also look interesting: